Ok, I decided to try and polish my rims the real way since my car has no engine. My fist time every sanding and polishing using wheels and compounds and I was wanting to know, could I do it better, what did I do wrong, and so forth and so on. Please be gentle!!

 

i think they look great, not over polished like some ppl i've seen.

 

Wow that looks GREAT! I'm looking at doing the same thing to mine. What all was involved with this and how long did it take you? I would also think about painting the lines inbetween the spokes a dark black. That would look pretty sweet and give it the "brand new" look..... Good job!

 

Im definatly a fan of the polished and painted look in the IROC rims, 3 are still blue where I painted them before and did a poor attempt at "polishing". All I did was follow the link at the top of the page and dig around and theres some really good stuff on polishing metals. Basically I went with the Eastwood Co. buffing wheels and compounds, sanded 180 dry 320/400 wet and followed the 4 step program that I found by digging around. I would recommend ordering larger than the 4" buffing wheels though, I ran into a drill problem and had to borrow my friends, which ended up being alot faster and at the wheel up, so now I have to order more. Hope that helps ya some. Thanks for the comments!!!

 

looks good

 

looks good man, i agree, not overdone looks great

Tim:lala:

 

it looks good BUT could look better i do a lot of polishing at my biz working on bikes if it douse not look really shiny then it can be better what dry paper are you starting with let me know all the paper you are useing and then the ruseges red brown and white and a bigger buffer is better for inches 4 or 5 in. here is a pitcher of 1 of the bikes frames I did at Crazy Kustoms we also do chroming and poder coating!! 03 R1 pic

 

Im using 180 dry, then 320 wet and finally 400 wet. For the buffing im using Sisal wheel With Emery, spiral sewn with emery, loose sewn with tripoli and canton flannel with white rouge. I just ordered a new sisal and a new spiral sewn, both yellow treated and in 10". I found a yellow treated loose spiral sewn 8" and 2 flannel 10" buffs I had from some previous attempt at polishing. Ill be using these as soon as my new sisal and spiral wheels come in. Thanks for the comments!!

 

not bad, not bad. I wish i saw some cars with polished rims around me , most of the cars i see that a 3rd gens are crap and the owners wont spend the time to polish their rims.

 

if you go further with the sanding to like 600 and 800 you can do less buffing steps, i have sanded up to 1000 and only needed two polishes to get the shine i wanted. tripoli and white rouge

looks nice should sand the curb rash down more though.

jeff

 

nice job Jeff,paper i use dry 150 ,220,WET 220 importent then,320,it starts to go faster at this stage 400,600,800,it not worth skiping papers you will see the diference,1000and then 1500.plosh first brown,wite,red then hand polish with your choice i like mother mag polish

 

bad pic just trying to give idea now that i can get crome from my friends shop im going to do that