Lude Generation

These are my Winter wheels, so I hadn't intended to do anything with them except tidy them up a bit while the tyres were off.
I got a bit carried away.

The pictures don't really do them justice. The two I've done so far have come up really shiny.
I will be lacquering them once I've finished with the polish.

The wheel on the left is what they were like.

Looking sweet

looks like many hours of polishing there

A few.

I stripped the old lacquer off first, so the areas unaffected by the corrosion were quite easy.

Looking good m8y

And these are your winter beater wheels?

First class as always man

Nice I really really really wanted mine polished, but the work involved in removing the paint and then polishing was just too much

I actually bought the sawblade wheels after seeing a lowered silver Prelude with polished sawblade wheels. I'll get them polished one day, just need to find somewhere to strip the paint for me!

JayJay wrote:just need to find somewhere to strip the paint for me!

It's really easy.
I bought some Nitromors in an aerosol. Spray it on and watch it bubble off.
You have to use a small wire brush in between the spokes.

Aerosol nitromors...brilliant! I used the paint on stuff and it was quite fiddly. I'll have to buy some more nitromors and a wire brush. When I tried stripping it myself I used wire wool type stuff (so I didn't make any scratches) but because there was no handle the nitromors kept eating through the gloves I assume I'll have to get a soft-ish wire brush?

Yes, a soft wire brush is recommended. Maybe even a stiff toothbrush would work if you leave the Nitromors on for a while.

Do you have JDM sawblades? I'm not sure what finish the UK ones came with.
They may be different, therefore more tricky to polish.

How did you do it!? I want to do this to my new wheels..