update. ford have offered to pay 50% for refurbish of all four.

should i take it ???

My Nissan suffered from corrosion to the wheels at about 30 months. The fronts had small bubbling around the centre hub and the rears had the first signs of corrosion again around the centre hub on close inspection.

Nissan dealer took photos to send to Nissan UK who approved the replacement of all four wheels under warranty which was done within a fortnight of my first contact with the dealer.

Very happy with the service as the corrosion especially on the rears was minor, but not so impressed with the standard of the wheel protection.

Perhaps many cars are not cleaned by their owners these days so a little corrosion to the wheels would not get noticed or commented on by car wash staff or the cost to the manufacturers for replacements may make them reconsider the wheel options.

The corrosion, even on the fronts to mine was only noticeable on fairly close inspection which I first noticed on trying to clean some very stubborn gunge from the wheels.

At 50% manufacturer offer your cost will still be fairly substantial I would have thought as these wheels will not be cheap.

Hope you can get a better offer for the replacements.

Just reread your post, I see they are offering refurbishment rather than replacement. I wonder if that may be the better way to go if done properly.

Edited by ohsoslow on 15/08/2015 at 11:41

50% contribution, whilst not the ideal resolution is better than nothing, but i'd be interested to learn how they intend to go about this and what they term as a refurb.

Shot blasted painted then cooked can be had from around £50/60 a wheel (plus tyre removel/refit fees), whilst correct lathe cutting of cut and lacquered of your current wheels is roughly twice the price(s).

Then there's VAT which they can claim the whole lot back on assuming they have the bill (and they'll get trade discounts), or do they intend for you to get the job done and they'll contribute exactly half, you probably get where i'm going here, you might be paying far more than half.

The problem with recutting/relacquering is that exactly the same problem will re-occur in roughly the same time frame (wheels refurbed this way carry a very short, if any, warranty), depending on how long you intend to keep the car this might be a solution for you, but if you intend to keep the car long term it might be worth speaking to someone like Pristine Wheels (other wheel refurbers are available) and enquire about having them painted with some of the latest chrome paints, some MB owners have done this and are very pleased with the results being a remakably close finish to cut/lacquer and last as long as standard painted finish.