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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 08:42 PM
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i just picked up a set of ccw classics 17x10 front and 17x11 rears from a member on here. these classics have seen better days , these were used as track wheels and were used as they were suppose to be used , but all that brake dust , road grime etc has taken its toll ,here are some pics from the previous owner
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and here are some after being taken apart and cleaned with meguiars aluminum wheel cleaner
i also only had time to fully polish one wheel with motehrs polish and power ball mini the results are incredible.
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 08:44 PM
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still debating whether leaving them polished or getting the centers black.. let me know what you guys think my car is a 02 pewter ws6 with ceta mod
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 09:30 PM
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Holy crap nice job man, I would leave them polished
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 10:11 PM
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If you want to show off all your hard work, keep them polished. Otherwise black centers would look mean as hell
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 10:22 PM
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i think anthricite centers look real nice on pewter cars
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Old Aug 28, 2011 | 10:37 PM
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What shovv said.
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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 02:54 AM
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get some adams polish, i have polished a few sets of rims, and by far the adams polish is the best stuff period.mothers is ok but adams is alot better.the one wheel looks good though , i would stay polished but im not big on black rims,
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Old Aug 29, 2011 | 11:59 AM
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x2 on Adams polish, Ive seen it work wonders. I personally loved chrome on my old Pewter Camaro. What color is your ceta? Hurry up and get these on the car! Ive been debating between Classics or 505a for my WS6.
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 07:39 AM
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You could always do the centers with something outside of the norm too, I had mine Titanium anodized.

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^His finish did look great on grey
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Old Aug 30, 2011 | 11:07 AM
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Damn, nice work! I spent 5 min with some Meguiars cleaner and power ball and decided I'd sell them as-is
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I use this on mine. I would suggest you do the same when you are finished polishing or be prepared to polish again. They don't stay shiny very long after they get wet.

http://sharkhide.com/mpinfo.html

I ended up having my centers brushed by CCW so now I only have to keep up with the hoops and my other set I had powdercoated gloss black and satin black so I don't have to worry about polishing there either.
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Heard good things about this from the makers of Zoopseal. This is basically an updated/better product.

http://www.shineseal.com/index.htm
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I love classics. Good work! Keep them polished!
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Originally Posted by mac62989
x2 on Adams polish, Ive seen it work wonders. I personally loved chrome on my old Pewter Camaro. What color is your ceta? Hurry up and get these on the car! Ive been debating between Classics or 505a for my WS6.
yea i heard good things about adams, my ceta is black that's why i was thinking about going with a black/pewter combo.
your gonna have to wait man till i put em on, it took me about 3 hrs just to do one wheel , plus i need to save up for tires . i like 505 a they are bad *** but ccw classics are well ... classic
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Originally Posted by Camaro396
You could always do the centers with something outside of the norm too, I had mine Titanium anodized.

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Damn, nice work! I spent 5 min with some Meguiars cleaner and power ball and decided I'd sell them as-is
thanks man , but im not out of the woods yet.. the wheels still have some scratches on them ,that's another reason why i wanted to paint the centers black
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Old Aug 31, 2011 | 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DopeFedZ
I use this on mine. I would suggest you do the same when you are finished polishing or be prepared to polish again. They don't stay shiny very long after they get wet.

http://sharkhide.com/mpinfo.html

I ended up having my centers brushed by CCW so now I only have to keep up with the hoops and my other set I had powdercoated gloss black and satin black so I don't have to worry about polishing there either.
i might have to give this a try once im done polishing them all.

hey man i also remember seeing one of your post in some thread saying you had the race version classics but you modified the center caps to fit . how did you do it please let me know .. i want center caps
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Those ccw wheels are my favorite with the centers black.
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