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Before and After Wheel Polishing Pics
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Before and After Wheel Polishing Pics The past two days I have been cleaning and polishing my CCW wheels. I also ended up switching out all the crappy bolts and nuts used on the track version wheels for some nicer socket head stainless steel bolts and nuts.
I tried using tripoli and white rouge compound on a buff and three different types of polishes all on different buffing wheels. I have no clue how professional polishers do it but I couldn't get the buff and compounds to work for crap. I ended up using a powerball and mothers billet polish and these are the end results.
I'm still not absolutely thrilled with the results and I know its not good going to look good very long because of crappy Houston weather.
The plan is to powdercoat the centers and inner barrel black and chrome the lip since these are three piece wheels and I can easily take them apart. I would get the centers and lip chrome but the cheapest quote has been $800
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I tried using tripoli and white rouge compound on a buff and three different types of polishes all on different buffing wheels. I have no clue how professional polishers do it but I couldn't get the buff and compounds to work for crap. I ended up using a powerball and mothers billet polish and these are the end results.
I'm still not absolutely thrilled with the results and I know its not good going to look good very long because of crappy Houston weather.
The plan is to powdercoat the centers and inner barrel black and chrome the lip since these are three piece wheels and I can easily take them apart. I would get the centers and lip chrome but the cheapest quote has been $800
. It really is frustrating when polishing my CCWs too...I can remember what they looked like new, but there just doesn't seem to be enough polishing that can be done to ever get them back to that point. With that being said, the faces of your wheels look awesome!
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Originally Posted by 01 Red WS6
The wheels look a lot better. What's the difference between the race and the street versions of those wheels?
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Originally Posted by Parker TX
Wow! You did a badass job! I really got tired of polishing my CCW's so I just said screw it and took the plunge to have them chromed.
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I know it's expensive to chrome the whole wheel, but damn they look so good now. I'm sure they'll look good in black too but it just seems to me like all you see now on white cars is black centered wheels.
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Originally Posted by tenacious z
I know it's expensive to chrome the whole wheel, but damn they look so good now. I'm sure they'll look good in black too but it just seems to me like all you see now on white cars is black centered wheels.
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Originally Posted by JGKadell
why not clear powdercoat them after a good shine?
