What should you do with wheels that are too damaged or contaminated to sell normally?
Short answer: Badly bent, cracked or corroded wheels are still aluminium and can usually be sold as lower-grade scrap, but wheels contaminated with oil, heavy steel or other metals may need cleaning or sorting first, so keep them in a separate bin, tell the buyer exactly what they are and accept the lower grade rather than mixing them into clean loads.
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Damaged wheels are not worthless, since the aluminium can be melted and reused.
Keep them separate
Mixing poor wheels into a clean load lowers the price of the whole load.
Be upfront
Describing the condition honestly gets you a fair price for what the wheels really are.
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