 » Site Navigation | | | | » Recent Threads | | | |  |  |  |  06-30-2008, 08:41 AM | #1 | | Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Southern California - Orange county Posts: 978 |  aluminum polish?
whats a good aluminum polish
im restoring my style 5's and i stripped the clear coat and i need to polish the hell out of them anyon recommend any good aluminum polishes or polish balls? __________________ 1995 318ti Cosmos Black
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 |  |  | | 07-07-2008, 02:58 PM | #3 | | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Eugene Oregon Posts: 6,182 |
any polishing job will destroy your muscles! never an easy task! __________________
-Josh
Sold-1995 318ti, Club Sport, Hellrot
Sold-1996 318ti, Active Model, Boston Green
Current- 1995 318ti, sport model, schwartz
| | | | | 07-07-2008, 03:21 PM | #4 | | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Richmond Hill, GA Posts: 1,231 |
Quote: Originally Posted by thesk8nmidget  any polishing job will destroy your muscles! never an easy task! | but its well worth it. I polished my RH whees and they came out great. | | | | | 07-07-2008, 05:10 PM | #5 | | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: maritimes Posts: 1,433 |
i wish i had that thread when I did mine... lol
that must have been a PITA removing all those bolts... Mine were corroded in, so I just left the bolts right on it... 2 of mine still don't look quite as good as those, maybe ill take mine apart in a couple months and do it again...
Unless you REALLY go at it hard, which I didn't, you will have some machine marks left in the lips that run horizontal all the way around... takes ALOT of work to even start getting those out... but if your worried about the little tiny scratches left over, use a super fine grit steel wool and that should clean them right up.
As far as metal polishes, ive used 3M, Bluemagic & Mothers - and they all work pretty good for making them shine. __________________ 11/97 Base  328Ti
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