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polishing cutty 5 spokes


jake91

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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

 

 

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.....

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  • 2 weeks later...

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.

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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.

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