I am a polishing newbie. If you guys can break down EACH step with specifics I would appreciate it. I will be just as specific to help anyone who knows less than I do.

When I purchased my gsr my rims looked like this:

My g/f curbed my rims and I thought it would be a good idea to paint them. (I didnt know about polishing.)


To get the paint off I used aircraft paint remover/stripper (I forgot the name) After I got some sand paper and decided to polish them. I started with 400 then went to 600 then to 1000 then to 2000. I have never sanded anything before so the way I did it was a got a pail of water, dipped a piece of sand paper in there and scrubbed at the rim until it was smooth and even. When I finished the rim looked like this.



Here is a close up


After that I got some mothers aluminum polish and spread it out over one of the spokes. Then I got this electric drill and put a polishing wheel at the end of it. I went over the spokes with back and forth motions and cleaned the wheel often until the spoke shined.

I have the polishing compounds (the brown, red, white and black) but I am not sure how to use them. Is there any way to get them to look better? Do they look decent now?

Finished pics

 

They look sick

 

 

nasty imo

 

looks good man.. pretty much what i did with my slipstreams

 

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how is it nasty? Granted they do not look like they did stock but keep in mind there is no clearcoat on them. I appreciate negative opinions but please back them up, dont just blurt out ****.

The purpose of this post was to see if anyone could give me detailed instructions on how to use the red,white, and black polishing compounds.

 

If you are going to polish them, do it right

 

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Speaking of blurting out ****
If your going to talk **** about how to do it right why not tell the man how to do it instead of being an *** about it.

 

First of all, I think they look good from the way you did it the first time...Bump to help this guy out...**** all you ignorant ******** who say "that **** is ugly" and nothing else.

 

blingin blades

 

Good job - Looks good

 

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seriously that was uncalled for.

 

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If your going to talk **** about how to do it right why not tell the man how to do it instead of being an *** about it.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Let me vouch for this guy because he is not a bad member. I thought the same thing and I PM'ed him

(7:11 PM 1/6/2005) BlackSage: wat r u talking about?
(7:11 PM 1/6/2005) BlackSage: if I knew I was doing it wrong I would not have done it. Enlighten me please
(9:17 PM 1/6/2005) BoostedJeff: when i polish things, you cannot see swirls or grit marks, that is all I am gonna say, not here to argue
(9:22 PM 1/6/2005) BlackSage: im not trying to argue. The point of my post was i dont know what I am doing. So you think I should sand better probably. Thanks for the info
(9:28 PM 1/6/2005) BoostedJeff: yeah, start with a grittier sand paper, then move down to medium, then fine, then ultra fine, then wet sand with the ultra fine. then, when you have a somehwat nice finish, get Mothers metal polish, and use that. Trust me, it works wonders

He is a good guy. to Jeff

 

not bad

 

^^

 

I wonder what a set of fully polished LS/GSR/SE meshies would look like.

 

here ya go buddy... you can thank me later

http://www.caswellplating.com/...=1905

 

looks like you did a great job

 

I like it. Not bad for a first try

 

I looked at that but unfortunately I need more detailed instructions

 

 

damn thats blingin...nice work

 

May we see the rims on the car please?

 

This is just a project I am working on. I have aftermarket rims on the DC2

Actually I do have a pic

EDIT: You cant really tell though. they look stock to me.


Here she is STOCK.First day I bought her. Cant really tell from the crappy pictures.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Mr.RHTuner &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">They look sick </TD></TR></TABLE>BLING yO