has anybody polished turbines?

[tommy g]

i have a set of ronal turbo's on and with winter coming up and the salt shiz coming i want a set of winter alloys so im think of getting some reno turbines and mirror polishing them! is there anybody on here that has done it with pics? also are the centre caps/locking plate plastic or metal? thanks tommy

 

[16v_paddy]

There's a guy on clio16valver that's done these

before

after

another guy on there has polished the whole of the wheel, will try & find pics for you, the centre caps are metal, it's the centre caps on ph2 valver wheels that are either plastic or metal

 

[tommy g]

nice one for that mate thats exactly what im after pretty much fully mirror polished but ide do inbetween the spokes gloss black! but to be fair they actually dont look that bad in that pic! got me thinking now!!!

 

[16v_paddy]

There's some better pics of the wheels on this car somewhere, just can't seem to find them

 

[tommy g]

they dont look very shiney and i think thats got the plastic centre cap on!

 

[16v_paddy]

they're dirty in those pics but the centre caps are painted

 

[tommy g]

the more i look at the black and polished ones the more im thinking of doing it like that! would be quite easy aswell! right im on the hunt in october for a set!

 

[16v_paddy]

You're not far away from matbrown in Hinckley, he's bound to have a set floating about

 

[tommy g]

i know who you mean, my mate sold his valver to him! ill pm him now cheers mate!

 

[Gorms]

Lemme get this right??

Winters is coming up and you WANT to run polished rims?

Are you mad?

I ran polished dishies on my RMs last Feb and they needed cleaning with fresh water and drying off after every journey and if i couldnt be arsed they needed polishing up (1 hour a dish). Best bet is to get some crappie winter wheels.

Paul

 

[David Ramsey]

I really can't see your logic. Your Ronals will be better for winter as they're lacquered as standard. Unprotected wheels will be a nightmare.

Just keep them on or get some cheap alloys.

 

[tommy g]

my logic is to do the turbines would cost me nothing as i can do it myself, and they will look like my turbos i have on at the minute! i dont mind cleaning/polishing them. Plus what im going to do is swap my tyres from my turbos and while the winter wheels are on get some streched tyres for the turbos!

 

[Winston]

Winter will eat polished turbines alive!!!

 

[cat171]

I hate turbines (Hi Benton) but polished up, or just painted with a polished lip they look look ace There was a set for sale on here ages ago which looked ace, one of the best sets i've ever seen, iirc they were amphasite with a lovely big polished lip :approve:

 

[tommy g]

i really like those black and polished ones so thats defo the plan! will probs take a week to do in my spare time but well worth it! im doing some audi tt comps atm aswell for a chap i know