"polishing" polished wheels
"polishing" polished wheels I bought a set of OEM ZO6 polished wheels for my Camaro. They're in nice shape overall, but I think they would really take well to a good polishing. I bought a wheel polish compound from O'Reilly's (the brand escapes me at the moment) and I started polishing the first wheel. After spending nearly and hour on it, I thought that there must be a more efficient and uniform way of polishing them than just using my finger and a rag. Being that they're 10 spoke wheels, there's a lot of crevices and it seemed to be extremely time consuming.
I was wondering if there is a tool that can make this process a bit less manual labor intensive? Maybe something on a rotary type tool? The directions of the polish say to rub the polish in until it turns black, then wipe off with a clean towel.
If there's no other way I'll just suck it up and do it, but I thought I'd check to see if there's a better way to do it before I spend multiple hours polishing up my wheels.
I'm mainly looking to take the "haze" off the metal and get rid of some extremely minor scratches in the metal.
Thanks!
I was wondering if there is a tool that can make this process a bit less manual labor intensive? Maybe something on a rotary type tool? The directions of the polish say to rub the polish in until it turns black, then wipe off with a clean towel.
If there's no other way I'll just suck it up and do it, but I thought I'd check to see if there's a better way to do it before I spend multiple hours polishing up my wheels.
I'm mainly looking to take the "haze" off the metal and get rid of some extremely minor scratches in the metal.
Thanks!
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From: Durham, NC
You need to find what type of metal you're working with then get a polish specific to that metal - try this site:
http://www.autogeek.net/metal-wheel-polish.html
The Mothers' products are very inexpensive, they also work well. autogeek has tons of options, you can also use autopia.org and the search feature on that website, it's a site that deals exclusively with detailing.
When you get them polished, post some pics of them shining in the sun!
http://www.autogeek.net/metal-wheel-polish.html
The Mothers' products are very inexpensive, they also work well. autogeek has tons of options, you can also use autopia.org and the search feature on that website, it's a site that deals exclusively with detailing.
When you get them polished, post some pics of them shining in the sun!
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theres on clear coat on your rims is there? if so u are not going to be able to polish them without taking the clear coat off. i see you said oem z06 so im going to assume with are GM rims so they would have had clear coat on them from the factory.
