Although my rims don't look horrible, I decided to refinish them due to the clear coat coming off in places. They are also pitting in places. Here is my plan.
1. Use aircraft paint stripped to remove clear coat.
2. Wet sand to remove pitting
3. Polish with mothers aluminum polish.

So far I have stripped the clear coat off of one wheel. It look better already. Now to wet sand and polish.



Before





Applying stripper





Stripped close up





After stripper








Before close up





After close up

 

Nice JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Looks great. Did you re clear coat them?

 

No. Bare aluminum. Still trying to decide what to do.

 

Not finished but looking good so far. Trying to decide if I want to tint the windows as well.

 

Very good work. Many years ago I used aircraft stripper on motorcycle wheels, painted some parts and polished other parts, then clear coated the whole thing. Looked like a factory job.
I'd highly recommend getting several coats of quality clear on there before they start to tarnish. Hate to see all that effort go to waste!

 

What clear coat did you use?

 

Looks great! Definitely make sure to clear those.

 

Try a product called nyalic if you can find it, specially formulated to prevent oxidation on aluminium products

 

I just finished mine the other day, I used 1200 wet and dry sand paper, 3M rubbing compound and finished it off with Maguires Cleaner Wax for now. I will decide latter if I want to clear them.

Denny

 

good looking truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Having trouble finding Naylic. Any ideas where to get it?

 

wow! Nice work on those. they look much better now