How to clean Coddington's
 

I have a set of 17x10 Boyd Coddingtons on my 96TA, I just bought the car and these rims are FILTHY. Tire cleaner and elbow grease didnt even get close to cleaning them. I asked a guy at work who details cars in the parking lot and he said no way he'd touch them. Please help!


You can sorta see the rims in this pic. Sorry havent taken any more.

Soap and water then some mothers billet polish. You might want to get a buffing wheel with a drill and polish them up. It's going to take some work but they should clean up

if they are real bad you could acid them but youll be working extra hard polishing them back out. get a drill your arm will thank you

Thanks guys!!

To Clean Boyd's
 

I have the same wheels and when i called boyd themselves they told me that the only polish they would recommend to me is heavymetal brand. This product is AWESOME!! http://www.heavymetalpolish.com/

try mothers powerball...it does an aweosme job

Which wheels are these? Smoothie II's ???? I am thinking of trading them for some 17" WS6 or Z06 rims

Mothers Billet worked like a charm for me
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What rims are those? Those are nice!!

Boyd Coddington 'Hotrods'....18x8 up front and 18x10 out back with reverse mounting (to give it that deep dish look)
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try that mr. cleam magic eraser (the one thats ment for rims)

Yea, I'd try the Mothers Powerball or Flitz to get them polished up and then I've heard good things about Zoop Seal after they're clean. I've not used them personally but I have quite a few friends that like all of them. I might be trying some of these soon though because I'm thinking of getting me some Boyd's.
I've never heard of the Heavy Metal Polish but it might work great, I just don't know anything about it.
The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works great with scuffs on my walls at home but never tried them on rims. Their site says that it can be used on car rims though, so who knows.

Yep, same here. The Heavy Metal polishes are bad-ass!!!!!

Since they are really dirty, they probably have some crud embedded in the aluminum. Give them a good wash first. Then, I would scrub them with some fine steel wool first (00 or 0000) before you polish them. Make sure to keep the wheel and steel wool wet when you do this.
When your done with the steel wool, the finish will look dull and faded, but it will feel very smooth to the touch. Then you can use something like the Mothers Powerball to polish it back to a good shine.
This takes a little longer, buit the resulting finish looks better and it tends to stay looking better longer.
I know...I've had Boyd Coddington rims for about 3 years.
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Heavy metal polish is ok but when I've used it I'm left with a dull finish. It shines don't get me wrong but it just doesn't look clear like it does when I use Mothers Billet polish. Plus you can pick up Mothers at any local autoparts store.


If they still don't look as clean as they could I would wetsand them. I've never used steel wool so I don't know how that works out but I always finish off with 2000 grit and then hand polish. It will make the wheels look like new

I wonder what the difference is then Red, as I get much better results with Heavy Metal than I got with Mother's...? *shrug* I have not tried the 'wetsand' method though...



As a side note, I've had my Boyd's for almost 3 years now as well... :)

If these rims are on a daily driver, clean them up and sell them. You'll end up doing the 3 hour polish ritual every week if you want them to look good.
I have had good luck with flitz, but I've never used it on rims that look that bad. Steel wool works great on getting embedded brake dust out of painted and chrome plated wheels, but I've never used it on polished aluminum.

*shrug* Again, I have no problems keeping mine looking good, and they're on a daily driver. I wash the car every week or two...and polish the wheels about every 4 months... :dunno:

Its not hard to keep them looking good. He just has some work to do to get them to look good for the 1st time. I would polish my TT2s every few months and they always look great.

I don't know what the deal was with the heavy metal polish but I just wasn't satisfied...but I can't say that I ever am so I don't know. I'll polish up a wheel with heavy metal and one with mothers and take some pics. You can see the difference between the two

My Boyds looked worse than that after Katrina... Polishing is not going to be the only thing that helps it. You have to wetsand the entire rim.. We started with 800, 1000, 1500, 2000 etc and after that we buffed it with 3M Heavy Polishing compound on a drill buffer. And FINALLY after 2 hours on a freaking rim, we buffed it with Mothers mag and aluminum with a microfiber cloth and OMG those rims were flawless.. You will have to do all this tho if you want those rims to look like they used to... Its a lot of work but its worth it