It's no secret that I have been trying to trade my rims off. Mostly b/c I want a bigger tire/rim combo to fill the wheel well, partly b/c this will mean that my g/f and I will have the same size tires then. The thing that I felt the worst about my rims is that the finish was a disappointment after only a year and a half. They would shine up, but not like they did when I first got them. For the last 5 months, I've been fighting the evil "NE" monster (New England road salt left from last winter's snow). The salt tore the hell outta my already dulling finish on my rims. I've tried everything. Mothers, Quick Silver, thousands of detergents (to get the little stuff that never seemed to come out). Tonight, after basically giving up and deciding that these would become my winter wheels and next summer Thunder would see a new set of rims on her, I found what I call a "sleeper" product. Sleeper products are those little bottles on the back of the shelf that no one ever notices. There's no TV advertisements for it, no big name movie stars endorsing it, little to no coverage of it in magazines. I don't know who has heard of it, but I hadn't, so it's a sleeper to me. The product is called Blue Magic (Liquid) Metal Polish. I spent about 20 minutes on my driver's side front wheel tonight, hitting the place that always gets the dirtiest--next to the disc brakes of the car. It was amazing. Simply amazing. Haziness-gone Road grime-gone Hard to reach places-clean Finish of the rim-bright as ever I'm nearly coming out of my skin waiting for tomorrow morning to roll around so that I can finish the rim, and get the other 3 done. I had 3 piece rims, so it will take me all day, but the work will be more than worth the wait and time that it takes. If there is a metal polish that I could ever suggest, this would be the one. BTW: I am interested in hearing other failure/success stories about metal polishes on rims. I think it would be interesting to see it show up in SOLM in one of the upcoming months. Please send me the info privately and I will write up an article on it and submit it to Yannick (hope I spelled that right) for a car care section in the mag. TIA ST3 http://www.geocities.com/ST3_200/ST3.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Non-performance related topics? http://www.egroups.com/group/NissanHotBodies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe, put "unsubscribe" (by itself) in the subject and send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the form at <http://www.sentra.net/sml/>.
