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Hi,

Thought i'd post in here as i would get more responses, I have acquired another set of wheels and was thinking of polishing them up myself. Just wanted to know how much i would be looking at for a full polishing kit and anything else i may require. Any links to kits or DIY guides would be helpful

any info would be appreciated

Thanks, Haris

Can I ask the obvious question, what alloys are they?!

some cool beetle steels and a cool retro lotus alloy, looks a bit like a ronal turbo. The lotus one is to practice my polishing on. and the beetle steels are to refurb/polish and possibly sell or if they turn out good i'll be on the lookout for some adapters

jeeeeeeeeeeeez Haris, how many sets of wheels do you own now?

actually had to think for a couple of seconds got 4 sets at the moment

Four aint that bad!

You got pics of the steelies? Sounds like they'd make a good witner wheel

Tim_GTi wrote:Four aint that bad!

You got pics of the steelies? Sounds like they'd make a good witner wheel

I already got 2 sets of winter wheels

here's some pics, they need a lot of work, which is why i bought them will give me plenty of practice polishing/refurbing







Nobody able to provide some advice on what i need? or provide any links to decent polishing kits?

Thanks, Haris

Wow yeh they're absolutely knackered!!

Liking the Deep Mono styled ones

This is probably your best bet:

http://www.thepolishingshop.co.uk/acata ... _Kits.html

You'll probably need to strip them using nitromors, and they may need some cleaning as they do look mucky.

Strip them with the Nitromors and rub them down with some medium/coarse W&D paper. Use the most abrasive mop and compound working down to the least abrasive. Dust with Vienna Lime, and the job's a goodun. Use some belgom alu to get the finish up and protect with some wheel wax.

I wonder if it might be useful having them shot-blasted first - although I don't know if that is too aggressive?

cheers for that guys, that's helped me out quite a bit yeah my mate suggested sand blasting them first. Plus i've just found out he's just bought a sand blasting air tool for his compressor, so will start with that i think and go from there