Alloy refurbishment
in Southsea
Ten minutes from the unit and the hardest place on the patch for alloy wheels. Sea air, permit streets and a lot of cars parked within sight of the water.
Price your wheels
60 seconds
Sea air is doing this
If your wheels look older than your car, this is why. Southsea is the harshest postcode we work in and it is not close.
Salt carried off the Solent settles on everything, and in winter it meets road salt. Between them they find any gap in a wheel’s finish and start corroding the metal underneath it.
On diamond-cut wheels that shows as white worm blooming in from the rim edge. On painted and powder-coated wheels it starts at a stone chip and lifts outward. Either way it does not stop on its own.
Practically, parking is the other Southsea problem. Most of the streets are permit bays and a van needs about two metres beside the wheel. Tell us the street when you book and we will pick a slot outside the school run, or collect instead and take the problem away.
Where we collect from
What changes by street is mostly parking and how much salt the car sees. The work and the price do not.
Eastney
Closest to the water and the worst for it. Sealant is worth more here than anywhere.
PO4Craneswater
Wide roads and some driveways. Straightforward for mobile work.
PO4Somerstown
Tight terraced streets and permit bays. Usually a collection job.
PO5The seafront
Salt spray and pay-and-display. We collect rather than work at the roadside.
PO5Milton
A little further in, so slightly kinder on the wheels.
PO4Albert Road
Busy, loading restrictions in places. Worth agreeing a time.
PO5Fratton border
Street parking throughout, easy access for collection.
PO4Southsea common side
Permit bays, and busy in summer. Early slots work best.
PO5The local questions
Is it really worse here than elsewhere?
Yes, measurably. We see corrosion on Southsea cars two or three years earlier than on equivalent cars in Waterlooville, and the closest streets to the water are worse again.
It does not change the repair. It does change what we recommend afterwards, which is why we suggest a sealant here more often than anywhere else on the patch.
My car is on a permit street. Can you still work on it?
Often, yes. We need about two metres beside the wheel we are on and the car in a bay your permit covers. Tell us the street when you book.
Where it genuinely will not work, collection is free and solves it entirely.
How quickly can you collect?
Southsea is on the island run, which goes out most days. Usually within the week and sometimes the next morning.
Will a sealant actually help?
On the coast, yes, noticeably. It is not magic and it does not replace rinsing the wheels after a winter drive, but it slows the thing that is causing the damage.
Around Southsea
Southsea shares the island run with Portsmouth, so if we are already out that day you get the earlier slot.
