Refurbed The Posihed Lip My Self :)

Hay gang

Ok a lil follow up to this thread

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=212531

Basicly i had damaged my wheels from a hitting a curb and as you all can imagine i was pretty pissed at the fact that i have done a school boy mistake!

So today as my day off i desided to try and sort it out myself! With sand paper, grit paper lots of elbow grease, sore hands and maguires metal polish i have managed to do a pretty dam good job Stil need a ll bit more polishing up and the wheel is dirty but i will do that sunday!

Here is some b4 pics:

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/315/20100318004.jpg

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http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8740/20100318006.jpg

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7330/20100318007.jpg

And after i worked on the wheel

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6717/20100323002.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3981/20100323004.jpg

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5998/20100323003.jpg

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/1832/20100323001.jpg

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/6316/20100323005.jpg

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7199/20100323006.jpg

So turned out quite well

Paul

Well done mate, they came out really well

Hehe nice results! Please don't put us refurbishers out of business though

good job mate, look like new lol

Good work!

What a difference.

Nice job

Hehe nice results! Please don't put us refurbishers out of business though

lol dont think im that good lol

thanks for the nice comments! im dead chuffed!

Much better, well done.

Well done mate, looks like you've made a good job of that, what grade of paper did you use? Im guessing it must be very fine wet and dry as there seems to be no scratch marks in the metal.

Nice job, for others thinking about DIY, its easy, as long as its not very deep marks you can usually just use a small file for the worst of it, followed buy some coarse 240 production paper, then just use finer wet n dry 400-600 will be OK FOR final, and then just use solvol or rubbing compound fro polishing.

If the rims are lacquered you will need to touch that up if you wish to keep the finish, but personally, once the lacquer starts to chip or get discoloured because the alloy underneath starts to corrode, i just take it all off and keep the metal polished.

Just remember to blend the repair if its deep otherwise it will show, but its surprising what you can loose/disguise using this method;)

nice job paul

Nice one. I'd fire some wheel wax/sealant over it to keep it shiny for longer

Well done mate, looks like you've made a good job of that, what grade of paper did you use? Im guessing it must be very fine wet and dry as there seems to be no scratch marks in the metal.

i used wicks fine general use sand paper (just stuff i found lying around) its actualy for wood and paint etc...

With that paper i scubbed hard to an hour or 2 to get the chewed up metal down and to sand down the the same depth and the lil dents.

After that i rinsed off the wheel.

Then with halfords 600 grit paper and a bucket of water started to rub at the scratchs that the sandpaper had mate, using ample amounts of water with the grit paper.

Once it felt very smooth i got the maguires metal poish and kitchen roll and started rubbing in the polish using lots, so much in lumps.

After about 20 mins of applying the polsih and rubbing off with a maguires micofibre cloth, the results showed

But need to really work with the sand paper and when polishing..

do you think i could do this on my wheels to remove the laquar from the dish as i have white marks under my laquar .

That a very impressive repair, nice one

do you think i could do this on my wheels to remove the laquar from the dish as i have white marks under my laquar .

Yes, just carefully tape up the painted areas right next to the where the lacquer starts, and carefully paint on some nitromoors or similar, once its bubbled up, just carefully scrape off the residue, repeat if necessary.

Then give it a bit of a wash, then get some 400 to 600 grit wet n dry, you may need coarser on the corrosion, but 600 should be fine for the rest, followed by a good polish with solvol, and a good coat of wax after, you will probably need to re polish every moth of so depending on the quality of the alloy.

Yes, just carefully tape up the painted areas right next to the where the lacquer starts, and carefully paint on some nitromoors or similar, once its bubbled up, just carefully scrape off the residue, repeat if necessary.

 

Then give it a bit of a wash, then get some 400 to 600 grit wet n dry, you may need coarser on the corrosion, but 600 should be fine for the rest, followed by a good polish with solvol, and a good coat of wax after, you will probably need to re polish every moth of so depending on the quality of the alloy.

Yer worth a go! if i goes wrong, not a loss as u would need the refurb anyway! Thats what i thought when i did my wheels 2day!

As tricky says just use very fine wet ad dry, then polish it up

Really like what you have done there matey, do you think i could get these looking shiny again using your way.

So far i have tried various metal polishes and it has got them ok, but there is still some corrosion.

Looks like you may still have some lacquer on there, although not much! just have a go with some 320grit first, followed by progressively finer, then polish, they should come up OK, it does take a bit of work though.

On a side note, i have found after ding several sets of wheels, that the well know expensive Japanese alloys always seem to corrode more, and quicker than some of the cheap alloys, and so require more frequent polishing, must be down to the lighter alloy having more additives in the forging process.

Good effort. Well done!

wow! great work Paul!

Nice one

Very very noice I must say !

Top job, I'm gonna try and get mine back looking like that, they haven't survived well after 2 winters (for some reason they get really caked in grime at the end of each spoke and it never shifts fully)

How did you manage to get in between where the rim meets the lip cos it's quite tight on my alloy and I'm not sure what to use (i.e a ruler with a cloth wrapped round it or something)??

dude that looks quality - well done mate