My wheels all cleaned up

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Well guys this is my first post showing my work. Don't be too harsh now lol.

Well I first washed my wheels with the Pinnacle wheel cleaner and washed the tires with the BF APC. I then used iron X which to my astonishment didn't really have too much iron on them being on a 1999 car. I then rewashed the wheels and dried them. I used the Gritos garage wheel clay to clay the wheels. The wheels had a lot of contaminants on them. The wheels had some scratches, thanks to the shops mounting my new tires. So I used the WGUC with an orange pad. Followed that up with the PBL surface cleansing polish with a green pad . Then for the final touch I used the PBL wheel coating. Then the real final touch is the BF tire gel.
I'm really happy with the results seems I did it all by hand.
Hope you all like and thanks for looking.
All comments are welcome.

































 
Nice work! You'll love the PBL wheel coating, makes cleaning a breeze...
 
Very nice work Grady :)
When we worked on your car together we mainly focused on the paint, I had no idea they were that bad but you turned them back into new looking wheels.
I can only imangine how hard you worked on them.
Payed off:)
 
Im not trying to rag on bmw , but can any car manufacturers make it so that it is easy to clean a wheel?
 
Very nice work and nice pictures. :dblthumb2:
 
I think that goes for a lot of wheels used on cars of today.
On my RAV it takes time to get in there to clean it well,some are worst than others.


Bill1234 said:
Im not trying to rag on bmw , but can any car manufacturers make it so that it is easy to clean a wheel?
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Lookin good! Rims can definetly be a pain but if the rims dont look good it throws off the whole car
 
HateSwirls said:
Very nice work Grady :)
When we worked on your car together we mainly focused on the paint, I had no idea they were that bad but you turned them back into new looking wheels.
I can only imangine how hard you worked on them.
Payed off:)
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Yea they had some light scratches and some deeper ones. the deeper ones I couldn't get out but got all the small ones out. yea I spent 12-15 hours on the wheels alone. my brother after the first 2 hours was like " you still just cleaning the wheels???" lol
 
Look Great....almost done.

A plastic razor blade and some Goof Off will remove the foam left when the old wheel weights were removed.
 
Dont forget to apply second coat after 24 hours...
 
allenk4 said:
Look Great....almost done.

A plastic razor blade and some Goof Off will remove the foam left when the old wheel weights were removed.
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Thanks for letting me know about that. I was wondering what to use to get that stuff off.
 
28ONE said:
Dont forget to apply second coat after 24 hours...
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Yea I didn't have time to do it 2 weeks ago. right after that I detailed my brothers car and that took me all weekend. and this past weekend went on vacation. so it's going to be this weekend that I'll put a second coat.
 
Garducio said:
Yea I didn't have time to do it 2 weeks ago. right after that I detailed my brothers car and that took me all weekend. and this past weekend went on vacation. so it's going to be this weekend that I'll put a second coat.
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Im willing to bet you can apply another coat now. I just coated my Brembo's this weekend...
 
28ONE said:
Im willing to bet you can apply another coat now. I just coated my Brembo's this weekend...
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Yea I think I can apply a few more coatings. i'll apply one on Friday after work at 11am and another on Saturday afternoon. Yea I coated my calipers also when I painted them a few weeks ago.
 
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