Terrierman,

Did you manage to resolve your issue with these alloys?

On a similar vehicle just bought for the wife she has hit a pot hole and dented the inner rim only. I have had to replace with new (ouch!), rather than seek repair, as no downtime of the vehicle is tolerated.

These alloy wheels are indeed incredibly weak on the inner rim, as the spokes only support the outer rim.

I your position I would try to replace with the later (hopefully cheaper) steel wheels and covers, as they look much stronger.

The Fiesta did not fail MOT due to buckled rims, they were reported as precautionaries.

I decided to give up altogether with the alloys and replaced with steels. I have had more than a dozen cars with alloys without any problem, but these Ford rims do seem very vulnerable - an opinion shared by the Parts Department at my local dealers. In the case of my daughters car there was definite steering vibration

Thanks Garage-Express

Car passed MoT first go.

I suspect (having now driven vehicle up to 70 mph) that there is a little steering wheel vibration at 70 mph, probably due to the light buckling previously mentioned.

What I am now looking for is a service that can remove light buckling from the inner rim of these (flimsy) wheels. Any ideas if this is commercially available? ( I envisage some sort of rolling process would do it.)