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Wheels & Polishing
Hey all, I have a picked up a set of 16x7J Fuchs which were refurbed not that long ago but with a different colored centre to my cars colour and I want them back to black. The other prob is they seem to have painted the outer rims as well (silver), which I would prefer polished. If this has been to hide kerbing etc can that be repaired and polished? I saw someone with a set of 928 style alloys polished they looked good (was on a red 944 with air heads thread) can the same be done to design 90's? (ps the technical thread on refurbing is v helpful).
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Curbing marks and minor nicks, etc. can be diminished or removed via sanding and polishing. FWIW, here's a pic of a fully stripped and polished 16x7 Fuchs.
Refinishing just the outer rim would be considerably less work. 
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damn that's a nice setup.
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Those are sharp. What do you polish those with?
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I polish the wheels with Mother's each time I wax the car. I've used other good polishes such as Flitz and Semichrome but Mother's seems to polish a little better and it supposedly leaves a protective coating.
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are they not chromed ?????
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Yep. I tried to keep true to my low budget, DIY approach to prepping the NA and spent a lot of time on each wheel, very close to 15 hours each... if you count stripping, smoothing and polishing. Polishing the anodized lug nuts was time consuming, as well. But I enjoyed the project despite the work/time involved.
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15 hrs. wow!
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Cheers for the link Panzer. Bertman those Fuch's looked great I'm considering doing that but huge amount of work - you obviously have great patience! The prob I have is that one Fuch has a nasty scrape from kerbing (wasn't me honest) not very big less than 1 inch long but quite deep (3mm), just wondered if some sort of shop could fill/repair it? I was also asking about design 90's because have been offered a set cheap but they need refurbed and wondered if them polished up well (any pics)? Thanks
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bertman, awesome job on those wheels. there is nothing like seeing the reflection off your wheels sparkle on the pavement on a sunny day 
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