My buddy put some 32"s and eagle alloys on his jeep and wanted the rims polished so i offered to do it. They were in pretty bad shape, i tried to just polish them w/ a mothers power ball and PB mini but, they were so pitted they just didnt work. I had to wet sand them all with 1000 then 2000 then polish with the PB. One had pitting bad enough where i had to go down to 400 grit wet paper. I know there not perfect but look quite a bit better than they did.

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what it looked like with just the PB, as you can see it didnt do much

Lip before, you can see the pitting

Wet sanded down to 2000 grit

Lip after polishing

After and Before side by side

 

Looks like quite a job! Nice save on them!

 

How much would you guys charge to do this for a friend? As in what do you think a fair price would be?

 

I did this to a few bike frames and swingarms, this is time consuming and a real pain, and once you start you have to finish it . He owes you big time!! mybe a masage for the forearms

 

Nice!

 

nice save. now i know how to do mine because mine are like that but with some brake dust stuck to them :lol

 

I used a wheel cleaner first to get all the crap off of them.

 

Good work!