I have 2 bent 16" oem alloy wheels. I realize I could pay $150 each to have them "refurbished" but if I just replace them with 2 from a salvage yard what do I do with them? Other than the pothole damage they were like new...? Is there someplace that buys them to refurbish them? Can they be recycled somehow? I don't want them pitched in a landfill somewhere... -John

Scrap yard?

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1989 300E 144K

in ne ohio i believe you get 15-20 bucks per rim at the scrap yard.

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Eugene

10 E63 AMG
93 300te 4matic
07 BMW X3
14 Ford F-150 Fx2

Scrap yard. Or call your local wheel refinishing place, they will also take them off your hands (and give you a few $$ too) because they can refinish and re-sell at a huge margin,

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1991 300E - 212K and rising fast...

Whether their margin is "huge" depends on the hourly rate they pay themselves. If it's the same as yours or mine, it's probably not huge.

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Kent Christensen
Albuquerque
'07 GL320CDI, '10 CL550. '01 Porsche Boxster
Two BMW motorcycles

Chicago, eh? Huck 'em into the lake. Not like that water could get any dirtier.

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'98 E300 turbodiesel

Since you have two, keep the tires on them and get a thick round glass and make a coffee table out of the stack of two wheels and thick round glass "table top"

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I like the coffee table idea. Conversation piece if nothing else- I showed them to a neighbor (the guy who drove out and picked us up in 15 degree weather and snow to pick us up after I hit the pothole) his response "HOLY S***!" But I don't think the wife would approve.

I'm also wondering if the tires are any good- they were/are like new, and I can't see any damage...

I have an Indy car tire and a top fuel slick in the garage waiting for coffee table approval. I can't even get permission to put one out by our burn pit in the field!!

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Earl McLain
'02 C230 Kompressor
'89 560 SEL "Frau BlueCar" (retired April 2004)

With steel rims, I've had good success cold working them back into shape. The process involves a pair of ear plugs, a large sledgehammer, and whatever pent up frustrations you may have. Of course, this was in Afghanistan on trailers that seldom saw the far side of 45 mph. I wouldn't try it with alloy wheels, so yeah-scap yard or the coffee table idea.

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.