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Well, the green compound was the ticket. I would say it took away 90% of the sand scratches. I followed that with white compound and I still need to hand polish them. I've got the wheels about 2/3 of the way done now, still have to finish some fine details such as the lug holes and removing the...

Update: Did a little more work on the wheels upping the speed to the correct sfpm. I didn't have time to pick up any green compound yet, but the increased speed did bring clarity back to the wheel. Went from almost a satin look to the polished. I still have some sanding scratches to work out on...

VT, Heres some better pics of the lip after hand polishing. Almost like I have some very fine scratches. Now let me ask you this, do you think the white rouge is too course of a step before hand polishing? Would I be better off to go with maybe a heavier polish(like megs medium cut), then onto...

VT, Im using 6" spiral swen pads at about 1800-2000 RPM. Ill be honest the front didn't quite come out to the high luster I was hoping for which make sense with going back down to the grit of rouge I was using. Im wetsanding in the order I posted above. So question to you, say I end up at...

Did a little more cleaning/polishing today. Ended up sanding the majority of the lip with 220,500,800,1000,1500 and gave the rest of the wheel a good scubbing with OOO steel wool. Still have a lot of polishing to do on the front side but the back side turned out great. Finished with Tripoli and...

Time for the bodyshop.

Hey All, I picked up a set of Weld Forged wheels in need of a desperate restoration. As you can see from the pics, the wheels were very heavily oxidized. I worked 1 section with some 1500 to break up some of the oxidation, then polished with a wool pad on a rotary and some Mother Mag&Alum...