New to the Highlands. Not new to the work.
Until now, getting a wheel properly machined around here meant packing it off to Wollongong or Sydney, paying for the freight, and waiting on a courier both ways.
So we brought the machine to Bowral instead.
Our CNC lathe is installed and cutting at Mount Road — not a partner's machine somewhere down the highway, not a job we quietly send out and mark up. When we say the work is done in-house, we mean in this house.
We're the new name in Southern Highlands wheel repair, and we're setting out to be the one people recommend. The plan for getting there isn't complicated: do proper work, give straight answers, and hand back wheels people are pleased to put back on the car.
Bring us something kerbed, buckled or cracked and let us show you.
Wheel repair, done in the Highlands
Bowral Wheel Repairs exists for a simple reason: there was no CNC wheel lathe in the Southern Highlands, and every machined wheel in the district was being trucked somewhere else to get fixed.
We do one thing and we do it here — alloy wheels, straightened, welded, machined and refinished at Mount Road in Bowral.
That focus is deliberate. A wheel is a structural part holding a tonne and a half of car onto the road, and it deserves more than being a sideline to something else.
The machine that does the work
This is our CNC wheel lathe, installed at Mount Road in Bowral. A wheel is chucked on the spindle, measured, and the cutting tool follows the exact face profile that wheel was built with — restoring the finish rather than approximating it.
It is the reason we can say the machining happens here. A lot of places advertise diamond cutting and quietly courier your wheels to someone else's lathe, then add the freight and the waiting to your bill. Ours is twenty metres from the front counter.
Around it sits the rest of what a wheel needs: a straightening press, TIG welding gear, a blasting and prep bay, and a spray booth with oven curing.
What you get
Your wheels stay in Bowral
You deal with the people doing the work
An honest assessment
A finish that holds up
We'll tell you if it's not worth it
Here's something you won't read on many wheel repair websites: not every wheel can be saved. Funny how everyone else's site implies anything can be fixed, isn't it?
Cracks in the spokes are a hard no — and not because we can't be bothered. The spokes carry every bit of your cornering and braking load, so welding them isn't just risky, it's not legal. Rim lip cracks are usually a different story and often perfectly repairable.
Diamond-cut wheels are similar. Every re-cut takes a whisker of metal off the face, so there's a limit to how many times one wheel can go under the tool. We'll tell you where yours is at.
You'll get a straight answer either way. Sometimes that answer is "replace it" — and we'd rather say so than take your money and hand back something we're not proud of.
Get a Quote
Every job is quoted on inspection. Send us a photo or bring the wheel in and we'll tell you exactly what it needs.