Dude, what kinda wheels do you have?
i have painted silver wheels (16" ADR Racing powers).. well.. i think they
are painted..
you think that will help me? or will it ruin my wheels?
i have nasty troubles with wheel dirt :(
if you want a pic of my wheels, go to
www.burningorphanage.com/pictures/donna.jpg
(its kinda big)
see if those would be ruined..
:(
im so pissed..
-A
> 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
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