Scratches on wheel lip...What products to use?? (pics inside)

[technomafia]

I herd and saw Mothers power ball so i may give that I try. Maybe next year Ill just get my wheels refinished. But in the mean time what can i use to lighten up the scratches and make my wheels looks good???



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[technomafia]

bump bump and away

[99blackSE]

What type of wheel? Is it coated?

[technomafia]

What type of wheel? Is it coated?





there axis supermesh. the lip is polished thats all i know. i did use turtle wax polishing rubbing compound it did nothing.

[technomafia]

bump, for any more help

[technomafia]

another morning bump

[evil_c5]

you need to wetsand them then re-polsih by hand or with a machine.





I would use a 1500-2000 grit and sand the entire lip, then move onto a 000 or 0000 steel or brass wool with a coarse metal polish. then move up to a finer polish with a disposable cotton wipe.



heres some pics i did on a set of wheels yesterday. they werent scratched, but you can see how easily the aluminum can be poloshed back up.



http://cablespeed.com/~briandrice/larry-wheel-before1.JPG



as you can see the bogarts have seen better days, this was after cleaning with the wheel cleaner and a brush.



I used my signiture Adams system to polish aluminum and it came thru for me once again. I started off with the Adams #1 metal polish and 0000 steel wool to get off the caked on baked on brake dust off. Then lightly polished the residue off with a disposible cotton wipe. To make it look like chrome, I used a microfiber applicator with the Adams #2 to apply a light coat, after using the disposible cotton wipes to polish the residue off leaving behind a chrome-like shine.





http://cablespeed.com/~briandrice/larry-wheel-after1.JPG

http://cablespeed.com/~briandrice/larry-wheel-after2.JPG

http://cablespeed.com/~briandrice/products.JPG

[technomafia]

nice work bro...But there isnt another product maybe something easier i could use to lighten the scratches up??? I have no experience in wheel refinishing. I dont want to just start taking sandpaper to my nice wheels ya know. Id almost feel more comfortable paying the $200 to have them refinished. If course Id rather not spend the money if there was an easier fix.