Polishing/removing clear coat

What are the steps in removing clear coat & then polishing the wheel?

[quote=bOosty.ViP;134848]What are the steps in removing clear coat & then polishing the wheel?[/quote]

I think you'll be disappointed. Having clear coated polished lips makes life much easier. If your lips are currently dull, any wheel repair guy can polish them up for you to look :biggthumpup:

[QUOTE=OCKlasse;134866]I think you'll be disappointed. Having clear coated polished lips makes life much easier. If your lips are currently dull, any wheel repair guy can polish them up for you to look :biggthumpup:[/QUOTE]

hey can you post a close up pic of your lineas i would like to see how your polished lip with a clear coat on it came out. thanks and what type of cleaner wax do you use for them and how often. thanks

^clearcoat means you can use any wax or polish on them.  Your no longer waxing or polishing the metal, your polishing the actual clear coat.  Hope that answers one of your questions

dont do it. polish them yourself.  if youre not happy, take it to a pro.

[quote=maxpowerintegra;134881]hey can you post a close up pic of your lineas i would like to see how your polished lip with a clear coat on it came out. thanks and what type of cleaner wax do you use for them and how often. thanks[/quote]

Sure!

This pic is from when I just got them on:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/trefive/DSC06034.jpg[/IMG]

And some others:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/trefive/WALD/HELLA017.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/trefive/CIMG7287.jpg[/IMG]

About every two months I do the following to them:

- clay
- Menzerna FPII
- FK1 1000P Synthetic Wax (gives a little "pop" to the wheels)

After every wash, I spray them down with Duragloss Aquawax and FK1 #425 to give a little extra protection and gloss. They are so slick that barely any brake dust adheres to them.

[B]Guess what, I think this is the answer.. Ive done this shit happen before.. I bought a set of WOrk Rezax II from cackywheel.com and the guy told me one of the lip have rain acid on it.. I decided to buy from him becauase I believe him.. SO when the shipping arrive.. I was so exciting and check them out.. I opened all four boxes and guess what? Im very dissappoint about the communication between me and the cackywheel..  All four rims have rain acid on the lip..  Oh Well I took the rims to Lexus detail shop (I work at LExus) and show them to the professional detailer.. He said I can do it.. I thought he was just talking.. I gave him one rim and then came back after work finish.. I was amaze and the lip was very shiny as new.. He told me the compound (BROWN) with wool buffer pad.. That will work... Hope it will work for u..[/B]

[QUOTE=OCKlasse;134935]Sure!

And some others:

About every two months I do the following to them:

- clay
- Menzerna FPII
- FK1 1000P Synthetic Wax (gives a little "pop" to the wheels)

After every wash, I spray them down with Duragloss Aquawax and FK1 #425 to give a little extra protection and gloss. They are so slick that barely any brake dust adheres to them.[/QUOTE]

Thanks! that really helps! your lips have a really nice shine to them!

[quote=VIS250P;134951][B]Guess what, I think this is the answer.. Ive done this shit happen before.. I bought a set of WOrk Rezax II from cackywheel.com and the guy told me one of the lip have rain acid on it.. I decided to buy from him becauase I believe him.. SO when the shipping arrive.. I was so exciting and check them out.. I opened all four boxes and guess what? Im very dissappoint about the communication between me and the cackywheel..  All four rims have rain acid on the lip..  Oh Well I took the rims to Lexus detail shop (I work at LExus) and show them to the professional detailer.. He said I can do it.. I thought he was just talking.. I gave him one rim and then came back after work finish.. I was amaze and the lip was very shiny as new.. He told me the compound (BROWN) with wool buffer pad.. That will work... Hope it will work for u..[/B][/quote]

Yeah, you treat them just as you do the paint. If you have swirl marks on your paint, you use a polish to correct them. It's same with clear coated lips. If they're bad enough, you even wetsand them and then buff.

[quote=maxpowerintegra;134964]Thanks! that really helps! your lips have a really nice shine to them![/quote]

:dance: Do two or more coats of 1000P to really add a little extra oomph.

What happens when you can no longer polish them because the clearcoat is worn away?

[quote=firelizard;134979]What happens when you can no longer polish them because the clearcoat is worn away?[/quote]

You would have to polish a LOT for that to happen...an unrealistic amount. If that were to happen though, you would need to have them stripped and recleared.

[quote=OCKlasse;134973]Yeah, you treat them just as you do the paint. If you have swirl marks on your paint, you use a polish to correct them. It's same with clear coated lips. If they're bad enough, you even wetsand them and then buff.[/quote]
 
That is true..  Magic always happen once..

id say try to clay bar the lips first before anything else. claying doesnt take any material off, it just takes off surface contaminents.  if that doesnt work, rubbing compound followed with polishing compound, then wax it... if that dont work, you can lightly sand the surface with 1200 or 1500 grit sandpaper and buff it out, but when you sand, youre taking material off so that means your layers of clearcoat are thinning out... 

like everyone else says, treat your rims like you treat your car, they are both protected with layers of clearcoat. how would a detail shop remove acid rain from the surface of your car/hood/etc...? its just that your rims are subjected to worst conditions, not only industrial fallout (things in the air/sky that land on everything i.e. your car and rims), but brake dust, heat/friction from the brakes. all that heat helps imbed (sp?) those contaminents in the cleatcoat... so just give a bit more attention to your rims.... hope this helps.

step one
take wheels off
 
step two, take them to a shop
 
polishing is the dirtiest, most time consuming, frustrating thing i have ever done.

Hey Boosty,

I did some research on refinishing clear coated wheels when I was considering those Monoblocs.  If you are referring to the wheels you just purchased, yes you are going to need to do something more than wet sand or polish to get them back to new.

I found a few articles on stripping the clear off with an Aircraft Stripper you can get from a local autoparts store.  I guess it melts the clear off after a few minutes, then you spray it down good.  Shoot it with a new can of clear.  Sand then polish.  Some of the results look pretty good. Here is one example: [url]http://www.kia-forums.com/do-yourself/40393-how-fix-aluminum-alloy-wheels.html[/url]

Your best bet is to get them refinished at a shop, but, that ads much cost.

Hope you are able to work it out.  Those rims are very sweet.

jeremy

[quote=Yokotas13;135282]step one
take wheels off
 
step two, take them to a shop
 
polishing is the dirtiest, most time consuming, frustrating thing i have ever done.[/quote]
 
 
ROFL.  Same here.  After I finished one wheel, I was like this aint that bad then I looked at the clock and realized I had 3 wheels left.  I gave up after one

How much is it to get them removed at a shop'?

just get this...
 
[IMG]http://www.eastwoodco.com/images/us//local/products/detail/p25461.jpg[/IMG]
 
all the way up to a perfect shine

[QUOTE=widebody_Q;135788]ROFL.  Same here.  After I finished one wheel, I was like this aint that bad then I looked at the clock and realized I had 3 wheels left.  I gave up after one[/QUOTE]

My rim guy repolished my lips and is bare now. Great shine. After the shine went away I tried to repolish them. I only did half a wheel and said forget it. lol.

[QUOTE=VIP-UCF;135825]just get this...
 
[IMG]http://www.eastwoodco.com/images/us//local/products/detail/p25461.jpg[/IMG]
 
all the way up to a perfect shine[/QUOTE]


I bought one of these things. It seemed easy enough to use. When I put one of those wool things, the clay and put it to my wheel that wool withered away to nothing. Is there a tutorial on how to use this thing.

its basically like buffing a car...