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Anybody with any experience prepared to do a write up?

Pwease

Never mind.... click link! http://www.demonvw.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1038

here's something I did: http://www.clubgti.com/forum/forum_post ... &KW=thefog

well hopefully this will be of some help to you. i got a 26 piece polishing kit from www.thepolishingshop.co.uk this was the abrasive/finishing kit. it contains 80-240 gritt greasless compound and mops. along with grey green and blue polish bars. and mops.
i then went down to homebase and got me a assorted pack of sandpaper 60, 120, 200, 600 gritt papers.

so i removed the laqure with the 60 gritt and did most of the sanding by hand apart from the large flat surface by the center as the sanding mops were 4 inch and wont fit in the dish or anywhere.

so once i have wetsanded to 600 gritt and its looking shiney i dryed them off with a lint free cloth and rubbed in dome lime powder ( removes grease and moister from the surface( also drys your hands out so moisterise afterwards a bit camp i know but stops you looking like a old man for a few days after))

i then buffed out all my sanding marks with the grey compound and worked upto the blue polish bar. i then gave the wheels a good wash with meguires soft wash gel and dryed them following it up with a polish with belgom ALU motorcycle polish for alumium alloys topped off with DC3 canuba wax.

heres the results.

so heres a wheel before i attempted it.

showing the worst of the salt damage to the laqure.


after i attacked it with the sandpaper and polishing kit the center is nto done only the dish and the outer lip. also showing the bit of laqure i missed on teh first sand.


attempting to capture the shine.



both those pics of the wheel on the car were after abotu 8 hours of graft. i have now compleated the wheel and given it the meguires treatment.

stage 1 blue polishing compound.
stage 2 Belgan ALU polish/wax ( for polishing motorcycle aluminum)
stage 3 Meguires DC3

i know thats 3 coats of different branded waxes. but stage 1 im unsure how long it will last before dulling. step 2 dulled my shine slightly abd step 3 braught it back up and it now looks sexy.

The finished Wheel



will take a pic of the wheel i have done next to one of the really bad ones.

if you really want to give this ago yourself, i recommend the polishing kit from www.frost.co.uk i think its about £45.

Nice job on the ats cups, but if you get the kit i've mentioned you will be able to bring the shine up more finer.

hope this helps, oh and above all, take your time.

aww i thought i recognised the name its mr lowvento from uk-mkivs...didnt know you was over here

Rich

Randall wrote:aww i thought i recognised the name its mr lowvento from uk-mkivs...didnt know you was over here

Rich

Hi Rich

I've never been on that forum, theres a mk1 forum too, i;ve never been on, but they all have lowvento's now.

Im on most of the others though.

lol ok fair does but strange how i now know 2 lowvento's n they both deal with alloys lol

good to talk tho bud n shall keep u in mind if i need ne work or advice

Rich

Randall wrote:lol ok fair does but strange how i now know 2 lowvento's n they both deal with alloys lol

good to talk tho bud n shall keep u in mind if i need ne work or advice

Rich

May be it was me then, i can't remember posting on there. i must be getting old.

wait there a second its me being me

not uk-mkiv's.net what am i talking about? i meant edition38

i think works gone to me head

Randall wrote:wait there a second its me being me

not uk-mkiv's.net what am i talking about? i meant edition38

i think works gone to me head

Too late, i allready booked my appointment with doc, told him i'm losing my memory ..

I'll blame you when i go

that's is moi on edition dude

Is there any way you can protect the wheel after you polish it up. Such as spray laquer on it or clear varnish. Just really cant be bothered polishing it all the time.

i believe frost restoration catolouge does some eastwood clear laquer....although i'm not gonna bother on my polished alloys, just give them a wipe over with some metal polish every couple weeks...

if you have the patience to polish them your self then you'll probably wanna keep 'em looking like that even if it means cleaning them every so often

You can buy wheel wax from places like demon tweeks.

I've always used normal car wax on my polished alloys, as does my best mate who has mirror polished alloys and was a valeter by trade. I don't use normal wax though, I've got a pot of Zymol in the fridge

Buy some P21S wax and do your car and wheels with it...you'll be amazed at both!

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... 24&start=0

Has a Pdf file that can be downloaded in there somewhere