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Any ideas on how easy these are to take apart to polish the rims and what sort of key would i need to undo the bolts. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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VR6 South wrote:Any ideas on how easy these are to take apart to polish the rims and what sort of key would i need to undo the bolts. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

First get the tyres and the tyre valves removed - this makes life soooo much easier to clean up the rims properly

Splities are really easy to take apart - just takes time - lots of bolts - I've got to go in the garage in a min to check for more leaks in the roof so I'll find the correct number for the Torx bit that you need and post it up in a while

It would be best to get new bolts if they are corroded or on removal the heads chew up a bit but they aren't that hard to get either...

Once all the bolts are out a few light taps with a rubber mallet should pop the centres out - hold/support the centre to stop it flying out.

Go down to a local fastener place and take one of the BBS rim bolts down there and get them to match up some ressesed allen key headed grub screws to fill the bolt holes so they don't fill up with polishing compound and fill every hole with them (If you do a wheel at a time you only need 16) Trust me on this one it is a worthwhile step it took me forever to clean the threads out on the first one I did and the BBS bolts sit proud if you use them and you constantly bang your fingers on them

Once the centres are out - see MKIV section for a how to on refurbing but basically its strip the laquer off with nitromors - dress back any kerbing marks with coarse wet and dry and then work your way up the grades to get an even smooth pit free surface - then its out with the polishing mops and compounds to get whatever finish you need

Assembly is just as easy but I would recommend you use a stud lock type compound on the threads to make sure they don't work loose

Do em all up evenly ensuring the centre is nicely centred - bout it really!!!

nice one

Multispline Torx M8 or VM8 12 splines rather than the std torx which has 6

Should be able to get one on it's own in Halfrauds if you don't want to spend a lot of money on a complete set

Cheers. I know what I'll be doing soon then