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Cookie cutter refurb

Hairyarse

Hairyarse

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Overall my cookie cutters are not in too bad nick but the rims are corroding a bit. See pic below - I'm not sure how best to deal with this? I don't want to end up with a highly polished rim (if you pardon the expression[:D]) as like the current satin look.

Any suggestions?
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I am sure there are people out there with more talent than I have, but in my experience home-cooked patch-ups of alloy wheels never work. Better to run the car while you get the rest sorted out, and then treat the thing to a proper wheel refurb at a specialist like Lepsons.
 
Not looking to do a patch up, was thinking though as it's only the rims which need sorting, some sort of polishing would sort it followed by laquer? Never done this before though so really not sure

Brillo...really??
 
Looks to me like it's the laquer that's broken there. Best to wet and dry sand it all off (rims only) and polish it with the likes of autosol or similar. Means you need to keep on top of it fairly regular (as it's now unprotected against the elements) but the only decent way I've found to do motorbike rims. If you re-lacquer it, it always tends to go yellow/milky or soon enough end up like what you have - the tiniest pin hole will let moitsure in which then corrodes the alloy under the lacquer. Only way to clean it off then is to remove the lacquer etc. so I cut out the middle man and just keep them unprotected but regularly polished in the first place [;)]
 
I'm with Mike - clean the laquer off (Brillo, fine wet and dry) then autosol to the desired finish.
Then just a quick polish when you wash the car. I usually do 2 wheels one wash an.d the others the next time.

Do have to watch them in the winter a bit.
 
The thought of polishing wheels in the middle of winter to prevent corrosion sounds a bit chilly to say the least but personally I'd follow cleaning and polishing with fine wire wool and then a thin coat of clear lacquer, you just may have to try a few to be sure of no colour being in the lacquer, I once sprayed some tele dials on my 924S and the lacquer had a slightly pink tint which became visible after the 2nd coat. Other than that after polishing, wax the rim.
 
The originals were probably diamond cut as you can see the fine lines on your wheels. That gives a satin finish. Probably not too epensive to get done. I need to get a set of Fuchs done for a 911 some time soon.
Alasdair
 
I'm in the process of refurbing my terribly corroded bare aluminium Fondmetals. I'm going for a highly polished finish, eventually!

So far I have used 400 wet and dry, using engine oil as a lubricant, so as not to scratch the wheel. I maintain the current finish just by using autosol each week.

I'm hoping to get right up to using 1500 or 2000 wet and dry paper before I start refurbing the gold inners of the wheel (which are just painted) highly polished looks gorgeous on a black car in my opinion [:)]

This is what I've managed to get so far:
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Like the wheels pixie, seen a few MK1 Golfs with them on and they do look good, yr car looks good clean too[;)]

Will have a bash at mine some point over the weekend, I don't want mine too polished but will let nature take it's course[:)]
 
They were fitted to my gold car. [:)] Backt then they had the proper Porsche centre caps, which got stolen, I've been looking everywhere since then and even contacted the manufacturer, no luck as they are "too old" [:(]

So at the moment they have modified ... wait for it ... MGB Rostyle centres on them! [:D] Not sure if the wheels are long termers as yet, though.

LOL on my car being clean, never used to have to clean the gold one, until it was really dirty! I do think black cars need to be clean - they really show the dirt ... I wash and polish this one once a week now and it looks beautiful for it (until I drive it again!)

Guards Red is gorgeous on it's own, black needs some shiny bits, hehe [;)]
 
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