Old Enough To Know Better, Too Stupid To Care....
Dave`s Detailing
Sonoma County, CA
final process was rinse, apc 1:5 on inside of wheels and speedmaster jr, rinse, iron x dwell and wipedown, then rinse
dried with leaf blower and then clayed the wheel and rinsed and dried again with leaf blower
0000 steel wool (first time using it and this stuff is awesome)
then followed up with mothers chrome polish via mothers mini ball and drill
put about six squirts of opti-seal on each wheel for good measure
proud of the results and thankful to finally have his wheels in better condition
before
after
those little dots are holes in the plating and they were not coming off but the oxidation or whatever that was on top came right off after clay and 0000steel wool
apc did not do anything, neither did the iron x but i guess it did help a little because all wheels turned colors..
it was the 0000 steel wool that did all the hard work
oh that scratch right there by the lip...when he got the truck he changed the tires and they messed up when installing/balancing them and caused at least two scratches like that on each lip-horrible
optibond on the tires (put on the day before this pic) if anyone was wondering-rinsing the wheel i got the tires wet and it didn`t phase the optibond, much appreciated
tried to tell him he needed to get me to coat the wheels with the black label coating but for some reason he was not on board. hopefully the optiseal hold up well enough but who knows
i was actually doing all this to just help my friend out and he ended up giving me some cash so thats even better-and i booked two other jobs while working on these wheels this morning
gotta love some good karma
thanks for all the suggestions
Brandt K.
Wow! Way good on the turnaround. I`ve been using the quad ought since the 70`s. I too am a fan. It works great on rusted chrome. Back in the day we used it with a little bit of Sprite (soft drink). It removes surface rust in a blink. There are obviously products designed to work much more efficiently than what we did back in the day but some of this old school stuff really did work.
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Nice job. They came out great.
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thanks
i threw pinnacle apc (3 dilutions including straight), simple green (3 dilutions including straight), sonax, iron x, and the 0000 steel wool saved the day(at less than $3 mind you)
thanks
i know these wheels didn`t come out perfect but i ended up spending more time on the wheels all together than the entire truck. lol
but at the end of the day it was all worth it because the wheels came out looking much better and besides that I just couldn`t have my name and work attached to a pair of wheels that looked that bad
Brandt K.
Maybe not perfect.. But the turnaround was amazing. Seriously great work!!!!i know these wheels didn`t come out perfect but i ended up spending more time on the wheels all together than the entire truck. lol
but at the end of the day it was all worth it because the wheels came out looking much better and besides that I just couldn`t have my name and work attached to a pair of wheels that looked that bad
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