Quote: Originally Posted by X-ZemPt Giving this a try on one of my Calais rims tomorrow. If it all work out fine, I'll do it on the 4 (plus spare) Calais rims I have on my car. Nice shiney spare Calais rim in the boot will look a treat once I get the rest of the boot install done give you a hot tip. you wont get all five done. ive so far only done two. it burns a hole in your finger. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by NOCLUE give you a hot tip. you wont get all five done. ive so far only done two. it burns a hole in your finger. LoL....not planning on doing them all tomorrow, only 1. Only the worst condition rim outta the 6 I have (incase I screw it up somehow although it will be pretty hard to). If I get that one looking good, I'll do the 5 I have for my car. (and get my bro to give me a hand ) Edit: Just spent the last 3 hours sanding back one of the rims. Still at least another hours worth of sanding to go. But I have to go to work in a sec It already looks 10 times better than it did before I started sanding em. Can't wait till I finish it Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

interesting.. very interesting.. i recon if i get mine done ill just pay someone else to.. i can see me starting.. getting bored and giving up.. thats very helpful wether or not ill actually get off my ass and do it tho is a different question.. but if i have to get the rubber off to get a pro to do it.. then i can get new rubber put on afterwards which i need to anyway.. they do come up lookin farkin sweet tho

ooh, i got a project for next weekend. Shal be interesting since i dont even know how to take my wheels off :P

I got one rim professionally done on my car, it came up really mint but for some reason got charged 70 bucks for the 1 rim - any one else in Adelaide got them done and for what price?

trying it now, done the first layer by hand(got machine lines off) using 180grit. don't want to do that again, will use orbital sander for others. when finishing with 1500/2000 grit do you use sander or hand? thinking hand

Don't use an orbital sander with that finer paper, just use a 1500 wet and you'll be right, let us know how you get on and post up some pics whne your finished

I used a wire brush attachment to get rid of all the machine lines on some rims I did recently, it saves your hands (I did the first few by hand) and looks better. Then as Larry says 1500 grit to smoth it all out ready to polish.

hi all, with polishing anything really, is there a difference between actual polishing compound compared to any metal polish such as autosol which comes out as a paste. if i was polishing a normal rocker cover would i have to use an actual polishing compound? CHeers

just a pic of my senator 16" i done last night i used the meguiars metal polish, little dark blue tub with fluro green lid, by far it is 1000 times better than AUTOSOL and MOTHERS, give it a try and you'll see! $20 a tub but hell it lasts for about 15-20 rims looks like a million bucks , and that only cost me about an hour n a half of work with the drill attachment Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

damn that came up pretty shiny. did you use the same stuff to do your rocker cover?

yea but the rocker cover was a 10 min job lol it was 11 at night and i was farking tired as **** that pic i took of the rocker cover was actualy after i had been working on my engine, so alot of leaning n **** on it so it faded abit, ill clean it up n take another pic

ah ye , bay dosent look to bad even though everyone bags it half of theres dosent really look any better . just needs a real good cleaning an general tidy up

im gonna do mine during the week... see how it goes, ive had half a go at it already.... but got bored.... now i wanna put them back on and they look funny, so ill have to finish it....

haha yea tell me bout it, u get the ****s after awhile or u burn a hole in ur finger

eh, i just called advanced metal polishing, 25 bux per rim, 1 day turnaround..... on tuesday ill take them in and see how it comes up for 100 bux u cant go wrong Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

was that with tyres on or off?

no tires.... its ok, i got a set of brand new ones to be fitted and balanced after they get polished

100 buks aint bad , get some pics of how they turn out man

will do what 100 bux these days???? dinner at a nice restraunt