Cleaning wheels with a machined face?

**Mk3 AAA** · 22-10-2011, 10:16 AM

Need/want to clean these up.

They're a machine finish (un-pimp the auto), and forged (not relevant here, but I like the word).

I can google til I'm blue, but some VWW experience would be goood.

**vwthunder** · 23-10-2011, 08:44 PM

Oh so you are the person who got them, they finished 3pm in the arvo, i was busy

I Hate you lol

**vwthunder** · 23-10-2011, 08:46 PM

I would send them off to a polisher to be redone

Or try something like this, I know Dylan has used it, supposed to be good PURPLE METAL POLISH ALLOY STAINLESS CHROME ALUMINUM ETC | eBay

**dylan8** · 23-10-2011, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by vwthunder

I would send them off to a polisher to be redone

Or try something like this, I know Dylan has used it, supposed to be good PURPLE METAL POLISH ALLOY STAINLESS CHROME ALUMINUM ETC | eBay

but is machine finish different... Being it has a clear coat? I normally use that metal polish on exposed lips

**vwthunder** · 23-10-2011, 08:58 PM

Hmmmmm clear coat, cant you rub it back, my LM's had clear coat and i rubbed it back before re polishing

Most of the Fat Fives on Vortex etc are mirror polished

**Jarred** · 23-10-2011, 09:16 PM

I reckon they'd have a clear coat on them. Normal polish should bring them up. Metal polish would only be good if you stripped them and got them professionally machined polished! (which is what I would be doing

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**Mk3 AAA** · 24-10-2011, 11:27 AM

Haha, come on don't hate, they're going to a good cause.

Yeah these ones aren't mirror (I know you're not under that impression anyway) sort of a slight cloudy finish bathroom mirror after a shower kind, and yeah seems like there's a clear coat on there there's that slight laminated feeling to the surface.

I don't want to refurnish them if I can help it as not only am I a POV student, they're pretty mint. The marks down the very bottom of the pic (OP) on the edge are about as bad as they get and some of that is just dirt.

**Wolfgang** · 24-10-2011, 11:38 AM

Clean them with a acid free wheel cleaner (have heard great things about P21S wheel gel, car care products stock it) then polish with whatever you would normally use on your car.