Mirror Polish on painted alloy wheels

[Aussie-Escort]

Hey guys I just picked my self up a set of 13x5.5 Ford Globe wheels off a cortina, I am planning to put them on my escort. they have had a home re spray job and it has runs on it, I want to mirror polish the whole face and paint, the slotted bits Gold, just wondring what would be the best way to to go about polishing them my self. I have stripped most of the paint off just to see what they were like under the paint.

Thanks,

[usedabused]

I'd use a sanding block with various grades of wet n dry the scotch bright then some good qaulity polishing wax,

Avoid anythink round as it will pit/gouge the face and look curse word.

Shiney but curse word.


Or get it in a wheel turning lathe and diamond cut them.

[dreadnought]

Out of interest, these come in five stud, what is the pcd?

[tonycocacola]

i believe they would be 5 x 112.

[Aussie-Escort]

i doubt they would of come in 5 stud as they were made for cortinas they are 4x108. i may be wrong tho

[markbognor]

Very similar from a Granada, in 5x112

[1980escort]

Somebody a while ago had the centre machined off a set of these wheels they looked really good ;-)

[Aussie-Escort]

yeah i have seen that, but i do still have the original center caps for them

[Aussie-Escort]

today i thought i would give sanding them a go so i jacked up the back of my car and let it idel in 2nd ger while the rim was on, i only used 2 grades of sandpaper a course one and fine one, obviously i will go from 250 up to 1800 when i do them properly but this was just to see if it would work. and luckily enough it didn't turn out too bad altho it is going to take a while and be a bit of hard work to do all 5 of them but the finished product should look awesome!

[fred]

Looking good
Yup much elbow grease is needed
Done similar to my old Venny's cosmic allys
took longer to do those than rebuilding the engine took

[jules1200]

They have come up good. I did same thing on a Scorpio a few years ago.
I then finished them off with one of these
www.justbandits.com/shop/product.asp?P_ID=437&strPageHistory=search&strKeywords=Polishing&numPageStartPosition=1&strSearchCriteria=any&PT_ID=all

You just put them on an electric drill or bench grinder, works really well.

[Aussie-Escort]

the spokes are going to be the annoying part because at lest with the flat surfaces i can just hold the sandpaper there when the car is jacked up and idling in 1st,

[Aussie-Escort]

and I'm not sure weather to paint the slotted bits black or gold, what do people think?

[usedabused]

Black.

Gold will just turn black with brake dust.

[Jizmondo Scrotmondo]

I'd go for black mate, less hassle and will look great next to the polished metal. I've always found acrylic paint to be excellent on alloys. I painted a set which had black gloss centres with a polished rim and the finish was lovely. Very hard wearing I've found too.