Anyone Got Tips For Refurbishing A Chrome Rim?

[Amjad]

Hey guys

I was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on how to refurbish a Chrome rim? I've been told to use 1200 Wet & Dry/Steel Wool/Autosol but I've got no idea in what order and what exactly to do

3 of my wheels have pretty bad lacquer corrosion, but it's not the whole way around the rim, here's a few pics to show you what I mean

The spokes etc are fine as you can see, I just want to restore the rims to their former glory! I'd appreciate any help

Thanks

Amjad

[Carl.]

could give them a rub down with wet and dry then give them a buff with some alloy polish stuff or even a bit of cutting compound. sure ive seen this done before somewhere.

[Carl.]

if that fails i'd rub the whole of the lip down smooth and buy some alloy wheel spray paint and redo the whole lip on al of them. orrrrrr if you can sand the whole lip to the same colour and finish just re-lacaer them

[durmz]

ide wet and dry them down til u get beyond the cracked laquer, then key the rest of the laquer then re laquer the rim

[Steve GT]

socks has just refurbed my chrome lip on the rims and it showed up perfectly. he just wire wooled them. then rubbed them down with wet and dry and finished with autosol and elbow grease lol showed up perfectly shines like a bitch too

[anup67]

get them refurbed in gunmetal grey

[Amjad]

socks has just refurbed my chrome lip on the rims and it showed up perfectly. he just wire wooled them. then rubbed them down with wet and dry and finished with autosol and elbow grease lol showed up perfectly shines like a bitch too

I tried some 1200 Wet & Dry on one of the wheels, it's working but I'm gonna get some wire wool too which should make it easier!

I took some of the corroded lacquer off by rubbing it down, but now you can tell where there IS lacquer and where there isn't. If I carry on and just polish up the parts which are corroded, I don't think the rest of the rim will be as shiny, so I'm thinking of stripping the lacquer off the whole rim and polishing it all up?

What could I use to make stripping the lacquer quicker/easier, because it would take hours with Wet & Dry alone

Oh and Anup, I'm thinking of doing the spokes in Gunmetal, but not for a while yet..

[Amjad]

What could I use to make stripping the lacquer quicker/easier, because it would take hours with Wet & Dry alone?

[Ryan5793]

spend hours on them with wet and dry, lol i spend about 4 hours on each wheel of mine!

[Amjad]

Damn I was hoping someone wouldn't say that

I'll see if anyone else can shed any light on the matter before I give it a go tomorrow!

[The Toffinator]

Best thing to do mate is use whatever you can to get it back to bare metal, polish it like mad then relaquer it, i did a set of wheels before, with nitromors! that works great, but obviously you would have to tape the spokes up, dont want it on there!

[james@cjperformance]

do this to them then use zoop seal to seal the lip clicky

[Amjad]

Thanks for the tips guys, I did actually manage to get it done a while back now..Nitromors is the shiz!

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