Colon's Wheel Polish

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Had these wheels sitting for a while. After reading a bump of thread for polishing, I'd thought I give it a shot since I have tons of sandpaper stored from other projects. I will be updating as I can. Finding time is hard when you have kids and school, so when you are in the game, "YOU MAKE TIME!" I had alot of ideas for the inner parts, like powdercoating the inners chrome or gloss black, but undecided or just leave it with the grey
12/1/2012.
Here they are.


Sanded with 60 grit then 100 grit followed by 150 grit.

Todays end results


12/9/2012
taking my time with this, a few days ago I sanded at 220 grit, then
wet-sanded with 320grit followed by 400 grit, huge difference from previous pics


12/13/2012
500, 600, 800 grit.home stretch!

1/3/2013
i had it sitting for a while but did the 1000, 1200, 2000 grit
followed by turtle wax rubbing compound, followed by mothers mag polish followed by blue magic, lmk what you think. all done by hand

01/06/2013
finished the last rim today, took me like a month but worth the time and effort. now i have to mount tires and put them on to see how they look

[lunny1320]

They look the same still...

[EJ8-Type R]

Bump

[honda4civic]

They look the same still...

Of course.. "he said this is the progress till now so im assuming they still missing steps

[colon]

Im no where near done guys just getting started. At least I got that layer off

[B13 SE-R]

you should use a da sander,on flat faces on the curves and contours you need to do it by hand,ive sanded tow truck wheel's,wiper arms,valve covers,control arms,exhaust just about every thing of metal/alumium :D

go with 60-120-150-220-320-400-600-800-1000-1500-2000-3000- then use heavy cut compound with a buffer then use blue magic polish and its gonna be a mirror finish,dont try and clear the wheels the clear wont stick

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you should use a da sander,on flat faces on the curves and contours you need to do it by hand,ive sanded tow truck wheel's,wiper arms,valve covers,control arms,exhaust just about every thing of metal/alumium :D

go with 60-120-150-220-320-400-600-800-1000-1500-2000-3000- then use heavy cut compound with a buffer then use blue magic polish and its gonna be a mirror finish,dont try and clear the wheels the clear wont stick

thanks for input on extra steps, blue magic does work nice i used that a few times. the clear i just want to powdercoat the inner not the complete face

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some updates

[thafenomeno19]

Bump

[lunny1320]

U shud post pics withput editin them.. Itll have a better view of how it looks.

[Eg6TypeR]

Tttttttgttttttttt

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one updated pic

[k-series]

Bump cuz I like polishing wheels heres one set I did.....

Before




After :-)




Painted inserts

[colon]

Bump cuz I like polishing wheels heres one set I did.....

Before




After :-)




Painted inserts

them shits fresh

[k-series]

Thanks bro did those for a member on this site