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Originally Posted by VisualEcho
Very hard to believe.
Touched up, or a full refinish?
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I tried once to get some decent curb rash touched up and it looked terrible. I only found one place locally (DC area) who would even attempt to refinish the whole wheel - no one wanted anything to do with the tinted clear coat. The guy I ended up going with stripped the clear coat, re-machined the entire thing (just the machined part, obviously), and custom tinted the clear to match a second wheel I left with him.
In the end it looks basically perfect. The machining is a touch different than the original finish, but you can only tell if you're looking at it right next to an untouched wheel, which basically never happens.
I'm no expert on the wheel refinishing business, but I have a hard time seeing how someone would get a really good result from a touch up. Needless to say I'm very careful with curbs, etc.