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I recently had my Fuchs wheels refurbished by The Wheel Specialist in Manchester. http://www.thewheelspecialist.co.uk/
They did a top quality job, service was excellent and prices were the best I could find Nationally.
Try them out. I thoroughly recommend them. Ask for Derek or Andy and tell them who recommended them.
I think the pictures below speak for themselves. The quality of finish is second to none.
Andrew Mallagh
They are polished edges, not anodised.
Only a small number of refurbishers have the capability to re-anodise. It is expensive and very difficult to get the same colour and texture of finish achieved on the original wheels. Aftermarket anodising often appears more 'milky'. Seen a few attempts and they all look good beside themselves but when you place them next to an original wheel the difference is clear. You can see a few examples of this advertised on the Internet. They all look more 'milky' then the original. Anodised wheels are usually anodised first and then painted over the top. This makes the RS style spoke look relatively easier to achieve just by masking them out when they are painted.
My wheels were polished which is how most refurbished Fuchs end up because of the reasons above. They look a bit brighter than the std wheel but it does have the benefit of making, getting rid of any scratches very simple indeed. The alloy dulls off a little with exposure to air which actually improves the look. The rest of the wheel is powder coated which gives a much tougher and thicker finish than painting. The whole wheel is blasted and then powder coated to start with and then the rims are polished back to alloy.
I asked them about polishing the spokes but decided not to do it. Along with the polished rims I thought it could all look a bit 'bling'.
It is more difficult with a powder coated rim because the powdercoating layer is so much thicker. If you try to mask out the spokes then it can leave a line with a thin step. It is easy to polish back to a clear edge as is the case with the rim edges. This is not the case with the spokes that have no clear edge to polish back to. So the risk is that the edge of the polished area is not as straight or well defined as it should be. They were doing a set a set of replica Fuchs with RS polished spokes while mine were there. If you are interested in getting them done then I suggest you give them a call.
What I can say is that the finish they did on mine was top notch and very well priced. Just over a 1/3 of the cost of anodised refurbishment advertised on ebay
