Last October, I had some new pro comp 1069 wheels put on my F150 along with some 295/75 BFG All Terrains, then promtly moved from Florida to New York.

Among the many, many things I learned in my first white winter is that... Maybe I should have stuck with the stock 17 inchers.

The new wheels look like hell, pitted, feeling rough... and I have no idea what to do with them. Is it even possible to get them looking half decent again? Ive seen ads for a fluffy ball type of attachment for a power drill, but it looks a bit far fetched. Any ideas on this whole thing?

 

I used to live in NY, best thing I ever did was move away!! anyways the polished aluminum wheels and all the road salt they use up there don't get along. you can try polishing them but it's gonna be a lot of work, and sometimes the pitting is so deep you need more than polishing. the make an "etch" or cleaner for big truck Alcoas that you can use but it will take all the polish off and leave bare metal, then you'll have to polish them back to make them shine again.

most guys I know used to run their stock wheels in the winter, I use to keep my aluminum wheels on all the time but wash them (and all the salt of the truck) every chance I could get. vehicles just don't last as long up there, the salt really destroys them

 

Get a Mothers Powerball and the Polish they sell with it. Wont help with the pits but will shine them up nicely.

 

The Powerball really works?

Ill give it a shot.

 

I had bad luck with mine, it came apart I only got 2 wheels done before all the "fingers" were destroyed on it. I got mine when it first came out, hopefully they've improved it since then....

 

I don't know how big of a project you want to get into with this but you can sand them with a 150 grit, then 300, then 600, then 1000, then wet sand them with 2000, then use a powerball to polish them off. The lower sandpaper will smooth out the pits, and the highers will smooth out the sand marks. I did it on my wheels I had on my ranger and you can see in how they look. It will take you a good 3 days, but the results are worth it. They looked like absolute crap beforehand, sadly I don't have any pics of that.