frsr06

Has anyone used a product called MuggyWeld Alloy 5 to repair curb rash on aluminum wheels. Just bought a set of thin spokes that I'm going to refinish and I figured I'd start with the rash. I plan on grinding out the rash area and refilling with this Alloy 5.

If I have bad luck with Alloy 5 I'll back out and have to practice my aluminum welding and do it that way.

Any advise or experience would be appreciated.

Vetteman Jack

Have never heard of that product, but will watch to see what someone else says.

1Willy1

ive also never heard of it, if you have an unfinished aluminum wheel you can easily sand out the rash and polish it back up to good as new or better .

Evil-Twin

I would "NOT " add a dissimilar filler to the wheel because the filler and the wheel alloy are not the exact same composition. You will see the filler. I would just sand and polish it out....'Ive done it several times, and I made it disappear both times. Its the nice thing about aluminum.

1Willy1

yep good job there

This is why I try to never buy chrome wheels again, there are too many advantages to having polished aluminum vs chrome, this is just one of them.

frsr06

ET -

I agree but I have one "rash" that is a little deeper and will leave a divot if I go to its full depth. This is an extra set of wheels I bought as a "project" so if it does not work I'll just grind it out and use aluminum weld rod. Pictures on the website showed that it blended well when polished - but we'll see.

I'll let you guys know how it works.