Thanks for your sympathy Gill. At the end of the day it's only a wheel! I'm weighing up the pros and cons of repair vs replacement. From what I've read it's very hard to get lacquer to adhere properly to a repaired diamond cut alloy. This means that in 1-2 years moisture gets under the lacquer leading to white worm corrosion. Repair would be ballpark 110 euros versus about 200 euros for a new wheel.
Any word on when you're car's going to be ready?
I think we can all sympathize with you.
Thanks for posting the pictures, I thought the whole wheel was magnesium alloy.
If you look at the material under the green paint, it looks like a type of fiber.
I am sure you could fill that with fiberglass resin.
The paint shouldn't have a problem taking on that.
The magnesium on the spoke will need to be built up, which means they will need to apply heat to it.
Will the two materials stay together or separate when they weld the magnesium alloy?
Make a list of questions to ask the person who will repair the wheel & if possible find a few people who has had work done by him so that you can see what his workmanship looks like.
The advantage of having them repaired is when it come to painting the will colour match the paint & get it as close as possible to the current colour, where as if you buy a brand new one, It will be painted according to the colour code of your car.