So i took off the chrome rims from the yellow car and took the tires off and got to polishing. WOW i forgot how much i freaking HATE IT....first i cleaned with dish soap to remove all the grease. then i cleaned with SOS pads used 1 pad per rim. then i used Never Dull Chrome polish and cleaned shined them up by hands. Pics do not do them justice they are like Mirrors in my basement i have just over 4 hours in the 2 rims i have completed.



If its not snowing i will take em outside tommorow for better pics



Before











After









Comparison

wow HUGE difference!

look great!






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Good Job!

wow, nice. they look awesome!! bet they were a real bitch though. lol



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Amazing!! Just means that I gotta get mine out soon and clean for the spring



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Those look killer! They'll look awsome on the car




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I'm gunna be doing that to the wheels i picked up from DTP.

Do the inside ot the wheel too ...

^^ i just did the insides of those to wheels and now i need to repolish them

i also cleaned up the other 2 front and rear i should have pics of all 4 by tues or wed if i work on them after work this week

what did you use to clean and everythign to get that shinny?


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To polish the wheels like that, usually you take a mild sand paper and work up to a very fine grit sand paper. Once the oxidation is removed and all the scratches have been removed from the very fine grit sand paper then you go back with some alluminum polish and buff them like crazy.

At least that's how I do it.

sikcavy wrote:what did you use to clean and everythign to get that shinny?

Try reading. He explained everything at the top

Steve W wrote:To polish the wheels like that, usually you take a mild sand paper and work up to a very fine grit sand paper. Once the oxidation is removed and all the scratches have been removed from the very fine grit sand paper then you go back with some alluminum polish and buff them like crazy.

At least that's how I do it.

well your totally wrong.

why would you sand CHROME rims these are NOT polished aluminum they are dipped chrome.

again

washed with dish soap to remove the grease and stuff.

used SOS pads 1 per rim ( they are meant for CHROME do not use on polished aluminum)

then i polished by hand with Never Dull Chrome Polish.

ok looks like i will be getting sos pads.. i have a set of mr7's and the break dust killed my rims... i tried westleys bleach, and i tried waxing and i couldnt get the stain and stuff off.. hope this works.


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i hope you clear them. i heard they make clear that sticks to polished metal. or else those will be brushed aluminum in no time


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^^ do you people not read they are NOT POLISHED METAL

they are CHROME........................

Those are some good looking polished metal, not chrome, rims you got there Greg.

I kid!

umm... they're chrome. you didnt 'polish' anything. you cleaned them.

the work you do gets done every time i drive my car. sometimes twice. its not hard.



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DONE

10+ hours into these things now

Shiny polished metal wheels ftmfw!

I kid too..

Good job on the cleanup.



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VIPERREDZED wrote:DONE

10+ hours into these things now

10 hours?... you kidding me?..lmao.

why wast so much time when the same thing can be accomplished so easily in just a few minutes per rim if you used some cleaner and something like this

And even not that specific type of item, one of any other countless things like it for cleaning rims..

but whatever, i wouldnt waste 10 hours cleaning rims..

how do you get 10 hours in cleaning 4 rims? yes i said cleaning... because you didnt 'polish' them.



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Well done Greg...they look sweet..!

z yaaaa wrote:umm... they're chrome. you didnt 'polish' anything. you cleaned them.

the work you do gets done every time i drive my car. sometimes twice. its not hard.

z yaaaa wrote:how do you get 10 hours in cleaning 4 rims? yes i said cleaning... because you didnt 'polish' them.

The first post wasnt enough?

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VIPERREDZED wrote:DONE

10+ hours into these things now

10 hours?... you kidding me?..lmao.

why wast so much time when the same thing can be accomplished so easily in just a few minutes per rim if you used some cleaner and something like this

And even not that specific type of item, one of any other countless things like it for cleaning rims..

but whatever, i wouldnt waste 10 hours cleaning rims..

That's what I used of course I had aluminum rims.



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z yaaaa wrote:how do you get 10 hours in cleaning 4 rims? yes i said cleaning... because you didnt 'polish' them.

Do you never end............... read the first post and YES i DID polish them with CHROME POLISH..............

the rims had never been cleaned probably in there life i had to get all the brake dust and grease and crap off before i could even think about cleaning them up