How To Polish Alloy Rims
Thread Starter
Registered!!
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 358
Likes: 0
Rep Power: 0 
How To Polish Alloy Rims
hey i wanna know how to get more BLING outta my rims... like what can i do.. myself... not takin it to a shop or anything... ive read i can do this but it seems pretty tough... http://www.v6z24.com/howto/polishing .... also read something more simple like this ... http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarti...s_corner-4.htm ..... any way i can get them to look SHINY! haha.... using a simpler method... any ways or methods would be appreciated
Joined: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,263
Likes: 0
From: Western MA
Rep Power: 349 
Take it to a shop, they'll do it right. Me and my uncle did a couple sets before on a buffing jack they came out awesome.....we have a metal finishing shop.
Thread Starter
Registered!!
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 358
Likes: 0
Rep Power: 0 are there any shops that i can just take my car to and they will remove the rims and do em... cuz i dont know how to take the rims out and my parents wouldnt let me... also wat kind of polish would i be getting? a full one right? so itd be mirror like....
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 51,241
Likes: 20
From: NV
Rep Power: 812 I just used meguiar's clear coat body scrub (safe for clear coat), cleaned off all the residue, and then waxed em. Looks just like when they were new.
Thread Starter
Registered!!
Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 358
Likes: 0
Rep Power: 0 What can i do myself at home.. step by step please on how to get them to shine... like they do at night time... at night they shine nicely but during the day there dull... what can i do myself to get them to shine... step by step please... or are there actual car shops that will give them a full polish to give them that mirror like touch?....
I wish I was asian
iTrader: (1)
Joined: Nov 2002
Posts: 5,083
Likes: 0
From: chantilly, Virginia, US
Rep Power: 337
Originally Posted by steven10
are there any shops that i can just take my car to and they will remove the rims and do em... cuz i dont know how to take the rims out and my parents wouldnt let me... also wat kind of polish would i be getting? a full one right? so itd be mirror like....
you're also 24 years old, why are your parents telling you what you can and cannot do?
Last edited by cambo; Apr 4, 2005 at 05:58 PM.
Joined: Sep 2002
Posts: 51,241
Likes: 20
From: NV
Rep Power: 812 did you read my post at all? Go buy those two things and put them on the wheels with a cotton detailing cloth. I did mine in about an hour without taking the rim off.
Titanium Metallic. You got a problem with that?
iTrader: (8)
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 6,496
Likes: 0
From: So Cal
Rep Power: 351 Mothers has a really nice polish cleaner that we use all the time on the bike and cleans up the wheels really well. I used to use them on my wheels, but they wont work with the ones that I have right now.
Jeebus... learn to read and do some research yourself... if you're too lazy to even look any of this stuff up, much less try it, then don't waste everyone's time trying to get someone to explain it to you step by step.
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 13,151
Likes: 3
From: Washington DC
Rep Power: 425 I already told you the options last night. You can't really change the finish of them in your driveway without messing them up. The only refinishing you can really DIY is painting them, but that doesn;t make them shinier. If you want them polished, then get them polished or buy a different set of rims. Thats really all thats to it. There's no magic stick that you can touch them with and all of a sudden have a mirror shine.
Thread
Thread Starter
Honda Civic Forum
Replies
Last Post
KikAzz
6th Generation Civic 1996 - 2000
2
Sep 4, 2015 12:36 PM
