polishing cutty 5 spokes

[jake91]

what would be involve in this would it be as simple as aircraft stripper and buff buff buff or would i be looking at stripper sanding, ect, ect, buffing also will the aircraft stripper be okay the tires if they were left on and do i have to have to have them unmounted

 

 

thanks guys

[Addicted to eaton]

You can use some kinda orange stripper. Its really up to you. If you can not get it on the tires then your ok. I would take them off. And i'm going to bed LOTS of Sanding!

[91LuminaEuro]

My friend re-did the wheels on their Reatta, he just used aircraft stripper, and then polished the living hell out of them. They looked great though.

[RobertISaar]

yeah, it's gonna take LOTS of time and sanding to get them to the status of polished.... IDK how rough of a casting they are though.

[mra32]

i imagine its more sanding than you wanna do...i almost wanted to quit on my x-laces and thats just the lip and it was already machined to a fairly smooth surface to begin with.

 

I think Hairdo12 polished his lumina wheels, again, those are machined already and its a pretty flat surface he might have used a palm sander or something

Edited June 27, 2010 by mra32

[jeremy]

I tried this exact thing a few years ago....I gave up after 5-6 hours on the first wheel and not having it anywhere close to where i needed it to be to look good.....

[jake91]

okay thanks jeremy and everyone else i wont be doing this

[mra32]

i think i saw some chrome olds 5 spokes on an olds 88. You may want to try looking for those. Not sure if they will fit all the way

[jake91]

nah if im going to buy wheels i will get aftermarket i was only going to polish them to save money

[pwmin]

I repolished the 5-spokes on my 96 GP because I ground them down to remove the lettering. I agree it's a huge PIA. I probably would do it, but I'd have another set of wheels to throw on while I was doing it. I like those wheels and love polished wheels. I hate chrome.

[mra32]

stay stock if you want cheap...i like those wheels. I think out of the w-bodies, those wheels are most fitting for what they came on

[Crazy K]

I've seen the chrome 5 spokes. they were really rare with maybe 1000 sets produced... and they leak air like hell.

 

polished 5 spokes would be nice if you could give the effort to make em so.