Okay the wheels are kinda turning yellowish at some spots and with black dots .. im sure its from the brake dust and salt..

i remember there was a thread last year about using CLR and something else and a toothbrush to get that stuff off... i cant find it i searched.. anyone have the link by any chance?

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Spray Sonax pitch remover to the wheels and wait for 10 min. and get that stuff off with a toothbrush ...

 

I actually just painted my 2.8 wheels.

They're in really shitty condition, chipped and curbed but lool 10x better now.

You can try and clean em, wose comes to worse, you'll have to repaint em.

 

I had the same thing w/ my stock wheels that i use for winter. i just used a metal polish lightly and it cleaned all of the crap off. I had not cleaned the wheel in 3 years, they are the winter wheels afterall. After i cleaned them they looked great, now i clean those when i wash the car too.

 

do you know hwere i can buy that sonax stuff from?

 

any pics?
i just want to see how it turned out

 

These arent OEM wheels ,but I painted my first set of wheels I had on my old car.

Rattle can = winnAr...

One done, one not sprayed...



Finished product, masking removed...



They came out very well... ALthough those rivets were a B1TCH to mask...[:@]

Nate

 

Yeah i dont have the ***** to paint my rims... Nor do i need to it seems like i clean them every other day so there in good shape.

 

[*****] Here's how they looked on the be@st...



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BTW, I did'nt think I'd ever have the cajones to do a serious DIY like this, but it came out MUCH better than I anticipated.


Nate