Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
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Re: Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
WOW, this thread was very informative.
Those wheels are sweet man...Love the way they turned out.
Going to used your method to polish up the ones i have on the GT. i think i will have it easier since there is now anodizing on them.
That and the exhaust pipe.
Those wheels are sweet man...Love the way they turned out.
Going to used your method to polish up the ones i have on the GT. i think i will have it easier since there is now anodizing on them.
That and the exhaust pipe.
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Re: Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
Unless I misunderstood you, you don't want to polish anodized aluminum. Anodizing is a very hard layer; the polishing must be done to the aluminum beneath the anodizing. Therefore you would need to remove anodizing first. Secondly, once aluminum has been anodized, other than cleaning it, you can't make it any shinier. Anodizing is just a fine, hard layer of color that will reveal whatever aluminum surface lies beneath. If you want shiny colored aluminum, the polishing must be done to the aluminum before it's anodized.LoboNYC wrote:Going to used your method to polish up the ones i have on the GT. i think i will have it easier since there is now anodizing on them.
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Re: Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
The only part anodized on those wheels is the gold center. The lips are machined away after anodizing so they will polish out like chrome
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Re: Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
Sorry about that....my post had typo. I meant to say it will be easier for me to polish my wheels since they there is NO ANODIZING on them. Mine are polished aluminum 2.2 wheels (not sure by who) that can use some polishing to freshen them up.Coelacanth wrote:Unless I misunderstood you, you don't want to polish anodized aluminum. Anodizing is a very hard layer; the polishing must be done to the aluminum beneath the anodizing. Therefore you would need to remove anodizing first. Secondly, once aluminum has been anodized, other than cleaning it, you can't make it any shinier. Anodizing is just a fine, hard layer of color that will reveal whatever aluminum surface lies beneath. If you want shiny colored aluminum, the polishing must be done to the aluminum before it's anodized.LoboNYC wrote:Going to used your method to polish up the ones i have on the GT. i think i will have it easier since there is now anodizing on them.
Thanks for the info though....
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Re: Pan car Sees wheels restore questions
There you go. No anodizing => you're good to go. Polish away! I figured there might've been a typo because the sentence didn't quite read right, but I wanted to make sure you didn't scuff up your anodizing, if you meant the wheels were indeed anodized.
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