Aluminum Rims?

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shadybreal

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I've got a customer who has a very nice black Chevy 2500, but doesn't really take great care of it as you will see from the picture. He asked if there was anything I could do to make his Mickey Thompson rims look any better. What do any of you suggest? Can they be improved and how?
 

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Try some aluminum polish. Maybe even some wadding. Eagle One makes a great wadding that shines up aluminum really well. Just look for the silver can in the chrome polish section of AutoZone or PepBoys or wherever you can get detailing products locally.
 
Two things that you are going to need is a drill with a power ball and Zephyr Pro40 polish.

Heat is what you need on aluminum get the dullness out and bring back the luster...Work that area well with the power ball until the rim turns black, them with some baking soda and a clean MF towel you put some BS on the MF and wipe up the black residue. It will take all the black off and bring back the luster big time.
 
shadybreal said:
I've got a customer who has a very nice black Chevy 2500, but doesn't really take great care of it as you will see from the picture. He asked if there was anything I could do to make his Mickey Thompson rims look any better. What do any of you suggest? Can they be improved and how?
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Don't be too hard on the guy for lack of care of the wheels.
I've had unfinished, polished aluminum wheels and in my area, they were a real nightmare to take care of. It seemed like they needed to be polished every time I washed the vehicle. I used both Mother's Aluminum Polish and the Eagle One, Nevr Dull and it is a lot of work. A wheel shop in my area quoted me $100 to polish them so I could have them clearcoated. Per wheel!

Charles
 
First and foremost shady -- are the rims clearcoated or not. Most of your replies above are for bare metal rims -- if however they are clearcoated, (which some MT's are/were) you may want to re-think your approach.

Either way, personally, I would probably refer the customer to a local wheel polishing shop, for I just wouldn't wanna mess with the 2+ hours per rim to get them back to new, nor do I think the customer would wanna spend that kinda money. I'll add that if I was in a fixed location, and/or these were factory rims on say a '72 vette being restored, it'd be quite a different story -- I'd have the customer drop off the vehicle overnight and send the rims out to be done. Then mark-up accordingly
 
dr_detail said:
First and foremost shady -- are the rims clearcoated or not. Most of your replies above are for bare metal rims -- if however they are clearcoated, (which some MT's are/were) you may want to re-think your approach.
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Excellent point!
They didn't look to me to be clearcoated in the picture, but if they are, my product suggestions would be completely wrong.
The "ass u me" did it again. :)

Charles
 
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