WORKSHOP IN MOMANOVO
Who works on your wheels
A workshop in Tuzla where wheels get repaired instead of scrapped: welding, straightening, machining, paint and balancing.
Craft, machine and a steady hand
Servis felgi Sloga is run by Eldin Hukić at 3. tuzlanske brigade 128 in Tuzla, in the Momanovo district. The job is quickly described: a wheel that has hit a kerb, dropped into a pothole or started letting air out does not have to end up as scrap. A large share of those wheels goes back on the car.
Alloy and steel wheels are both worked on here. People name them differently, rims in one place and felne in another, but the substance is the same: bring back the roundness, close the damage, sort out the surface. There is a machine for each of those steps, and beside the machine a hand that knows where the material gives out.
It all happens in one place. The wheel does not travel to another town and does not pass through anyone else's hands, so its condition is followed from the first look through to the balancing. Arranging things is simpler that way, because the person who saw the damage also finishes the job, with nothing lost in retelling.
Whatever cannot be repaired safely is not repaired. Damage on the wheel disc and in the zones that carry the load is examined with particular care, and if there is no safe solution you are told at once. Turning the work down beats putting a wheel back on the road that nobody can trust.
How the work is done here
First a look, then an estimate
Nothing is promised until a wheel has been seen up close. A photograph gives the rough picture, while the true extent of the job shows only once the tyre is off and the damaged area is clean.
Alloy and steel under one roof
Alloy wheels go onto the lathe and to the polisher, steel wheels usually to the press and the paint bay. Both materials are handled in the same shop, with nothing sent off to a second address.
An honest no when it will not work
If a wheel cannot be repaired safely, you hear it without any dressing up. No repair is worth a risk on the road, so the limit is drawn before the work begins.
The job ends on the balancer
The story does not stop at a machined wheel. The tyre goes back on and the wheel is balanced, because the result is measured by how the car drives, not by how the wheel looks on the bench.
What stands in the workshop
The equipment is not extensive, but it covers the whole path of a wheel: straightening, welding, machining, surface and balancing at the end.
- Lathe for machining wheels and bead seats
- Hydraulic press for straightening
- Welder for aluminium and steel
- Wheel balancing machine
- Machine for fitting and removing tyres
- Grinder and polishing unit
- Prepared bay for painting
Questions about the workshop
Who will actually work on my wheel?
Eldin Hukić runs the job and the wheel is not passed along. The same man who inspects it decides what will be done and carries that work through to the end. Everything can therefore be agreed directly on +387 61 570 429, with nobody standing between you and the machine.
When can I come to the workshop?
The visit is agreed beforehand, because the shop works by arrangement rather than to a fixed timetable on the door. Call or write on WhatsApp and a slot is found that suits both sides. Your wheel then does not stand in a queue, it goes onto the machine when you arrive.
Do you only do wheels, or tyres as well?
Besides wheel repair there is the ordinary tyre work: taking tyres off and refitting them, fitting new ones, balancing and the seasonal changeover. It is practical to settle that in the same visit, since the tyre has to come off anyway when a wheel goes for machining.
Can I get advice before I bring the wheel in?
You can. Describe what happened and send a photograph, and you get a rough opinion on what has probably suffered and what a repair would cover. The binding assessment follows the inspection in the shop, when the inner side of the wheel is visible too.
Bring the wheel in for a look
The workshop is at 3. tuzlanske brigade 128 in Tuzla. Agree your visit by call or message.