All,
I'm ready to refinish/buff out the aluminum lips on my set of GTA wheels. I've seen a number of posts that say to sand repeatedly, with progressively finer (and some posts recommend wet sanding) sand paper. Others add the easiest way is to jack up the car and put the bare wheels on the rear axle, start it and put in gear. Holding the sandpaper in place while allowing the motion of the wheel to do the work.
My question. My GTAs are in exceptionally fine shape; I suspect that I could go almost immediately to very fine sandpaper and then buff out. I've already stripped the clearcoat, and the centers were powdercoated black. EXCEPT--each wheel has a couple of half inch long dings that go down ~ 1/16 inch or probably less. Question is do I need to take off the 1/16 inch all the way around (as you would if you had the wheel spinning), or just aggressively sand at the few spots I have? How 'bout using a dremmel tool for the couple of gouges to get it level, and then sand as per the recommendations?
I've never done this before, and I want to do it right. I will be starting w/the two rear wheels, however, cuz I hope to ultimately find two more fronts.
TIA
I'm ready to refinish/buff out the aluminum lips on my set of GTA wheels. I've seen a number of posts that say to sand repeatedly, with progressively finer (and some posts recommend wet sanding) sand paper. Others add the easiest way is to jack up the car and put the bare wheels on the rear axle, start it and put in gear. Holding the sandpaper in place while allowing the motion of the wheel to do the work.
My question. My GTAs are in exceptionally fine shape; I suspect that I could go almost immediately to very fine sandpaper and then buff out. I've already stripped the clearcoat, and the centers were powdercoated black. EXCEPT--each wheel has a couple of half inch long dings that go down ~ 1/16 inch or probably less. Question is do I need to take off the 1/16 inch all the way around (as you would if you had the wheel spinning), or just aggressively sand at the few spots I have? How 'bout using a dremmel tool for the couple of gouges to get it level, and then sand as per the recommendations?
I've never done this before, and I want to do it right. I will be starting w/the two rear wheels, however, cuz I hope to ultimately find two more fronts.
TIA
I had done a search on the boards about this. A few of the guys have done it and they say it is a massive undertaking. My 2 cents is that let someone machine down the clear off the lips and put the clear powdercoat on. I like my results. A night and day difference from before.
