Do your Alumastar 2.0 look like this?
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Do your Alumastar 2.0 look like this?
My 17x4.5 Alumastar 2.0s came in the other day and I was wondering about the finish on them. They look like their scratched in certain light, but I think it's the machine surface coming through the anodizing. Maybe the anodizing isn't a good coating? Does anyone else's look like this? I don't recall my RTS wheels looking like this. Kind of disappointing for the $$$
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Originally Posted by Rise of the Phoenix
I bet you could wet-sand it and then use a really good metal polish and it would come out. I did that with a set of CCW's I had a while back, and they turned out really good.
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My rear wheels came in yesterday and they are the same way. It was just surprising when I opened the box and seen that, but when I hung them on the car I looked from every angle possible and I couldn't notice anything. The anodizing must be somewhat transparent in the right light I guess
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Clear anodising is possible. Looks like it has not been given so much love after getting the main machining marks off, final touch up is probably not machine done though - it's too random. When you get that with machining, even on thick matte black anodising under the right light, it is usually very symmetrical and orderly. One company I work for tends to keep lightly sanded machining marks in their equipment in some areas, as a mark of difference to all the stamped cheap crap out there. Let's just say the looks are not very important in the application at hand...