Wheel Polishing

I bought some Porsche wheels at the weekend and I'm going to have a go at polishing them myself.

Has anyone done this before? What tools, etc do I need, apart from plenty of patience.

Also I think in the Golf Mag there was a "how to" feature on, does anyone know when this was?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated

 

lots of wet n dry and peek or autsol....and a lot of patience!

 

What grade wet & Dry is best Rags???

 

i worked my way from 120 to 1500, then autosoled them.

 

Thanks Jimmy.

Where is the best place to get this stuff from??? There these things that Hellfrauds stock or is a proper auto paint/bodywork supplier better??

Cheers

 

Jimmy, did you do it all by hand, or did you use a Dremmel thingy or owt?

I've never tried anything like this before and I can't see how I can get such a mirror finish by hand ???

I'm going to trawl through my old Golf mags tonight and get some pics and stuff, may even plagiarise(SP?) the text and post it up here (if the Mods don't mind - you know copyright n stuff)

 

when you've given up robbsoll, send them to me and i'll finish them off for you

 

get them sand blasted to remove the paint then start off with 600 wet & dry, move down to 800 then 1200 then 1500, then autosol, then a very fine buffing compound. Takes feckin ages.

What wheels have you got?

Pic of a set I did for my Mk3





Edited by: dusty_mauve

 

but worth it!

 

Na was gutted when I put them on my car, I didn't like how they looked so got rid of them sharpish and put the RH's back on!

 

don't sand balst anything you want to polish. the sand can get embedded in the soft alloy and you can't polsih it out.

 

May not have been sand then, was some kind of blasting to remove the paint, I managed to get a mirror finish whatever it was, as you can see from the photo. Take some advice on the blasting robbsoll

 

shot/bead blasted maybe ?

 

whatever it was it fetched the paint off OK!

 

Right 'O, blast them first seems sensible, then I suppose I should just get stuck in

got some Porsche 15" Teledials BTW.
Edited by: robbsoll

 

Kewl, they look tough on a Mk2

 

yeah i did it all by hand, then got sick of autosol cos its utter sh*te so bought some mops and compounds

 

mops and cutting compounds are the way ahead, you get a much deeper and brighter shine with less effort.

 

How much are Mops??

Are they good for use on the car paintwork too??

 

yeah they are great for bodywork (with the aid of g3 and g10 compound ) but i guess yours has been moped already damo !! get a decent mop for about 100