Every photograph on this page is one of ours. Nothing is bought in from a stock library, which is why some of them have a pallet in the background and the light is whatever the roller shutter let in.
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Priced same day12 month warranty
OursNot a stock library, not a supplier’s
BothPhotographed before and after, every job
AskedOwner’s permission before publishing
PlatesCropped or blurred without exception
The difference
Same wheel, forty-eight hours apart
Most people have never seen what a kerbed rim looks like stripped back, which is why “it can be saved” sounds optimistic until you see one.
Before · kerbed and corroded rim
After · stripped, coated, cured
BeforeAfter
Two photographs of the same wheel, taken two days apart on the same phone in the same corner of the unit.
Recent jobs
Nine recent jobs
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Refurbishment
Nineteens, Copnor
Corrosion round every bolt hole. Stripped, cut back and powder coated in factory silver.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Diamond cut
White worm, Southsea
Lacquer lifting from the rim edge inward. Re-cut on the lathe and sealed.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Kerb repair
Two rims, Fratton
Done on a permit street between school runs. Car never moved.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Colour change
Silver to satin black, Havant
Sample panel first, because satin black covers less than people expect.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Refurbishment
Set of four, Fareham
Ten years of salt. One wheel needed straightening before it could be coated.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Diamond cut
Last skim, Portchester
Measured at the limit. Cut once more and told the owner it was the final one.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Kerb repair
Lease return, Gosport
Four rims tidied the week before handback. Cheaper than the leasing company’s charge.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Colour change
Bronze, Waterlooville
Matched to a sample the owner brought in rather than a code.
Job slot · 16:11 client photography
Refurbishment
Split rims, Hayling
Three-piece, so apart, coated and rebuilt with new bolts and seals.
About these photographs
Why they look like this
A gallery of perfectly lit studio wheels proves nothing except that somebody has a stock library subscription.
Taken on the job
On a phone, in the unit, by whoever had clean-ish hands. No lighting rig, no staging, no borrowed wheels.
Before as well as after
An after shot on its own is a photograph of a wheel. The pair is the only thing that tells you what was actually done.
Plates out of frame
Cropped or blurred before anything is published, every time, whether or not the car is identifiable otherwise.
We ask first
Even with the plate gone. Nobody has ever said no unkindly, and one or two have said no, which is why we ask.
What owners said
Judged in daylight, a week later
Anyone can make one wheel look right under a work lamp. The test is all four on the car on a bright morning.
GHL reviews widget slot
The live feed mounts here. No review on this site is written by hand, which is why this is a slot and not a row of quotation marks.
★★★★★
Kerbed all four on the A3. Back in two days and you can't tell.
Jason ReedFareham · kerb repair★★★★★
Gloss black on the Golf R wheels. Even finish, inside the barrels too.
Amy ClarkeSouthsea · colour change★★★★★
Diamond cut faces redone properly, lacquer clean. Collected and dropped.
Tom PearceHavant · diamond cut
Where these came from
Most of the jobs above were collected within twenty minutes of the unit. Collection and delivery are included across the whole patch, so where you are changes the day rather than the price.
Unit
Unit 12, Kestrel Court, Airport Industrial Estate, Portsmouth, PO3 5RB
