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Old Feb 7, 2004 | 05:03 PM
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Anyone have any tips on how to get WS6 wheels to shine up? I would like to try a few things before spending the money to get them high speed polished. Looking for tips on compounds or methods.......?
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Until and unless you remove the clear coat on them, all you are really doing is polishing the clear coat paint and not the metal itself. Having said that, I found that using hand glaze and top quality high gloss waxes and polishes (made for paint) worked great.

I then decided that I either needed to get the clear removed and have them properly high polished (but then they require more maintenance to stay looking that good) or go chrome. So I just decided to buy another set of WS6 wheels in chrome. Chrome is so much easier to care for, and shines to a degree that the stock wheels could only dream of.
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