These Mad'in split rims are my pride and joy and thought it was time to make them something special by giving them a split & polish... Dare i say i love these wheels more than any car lol
The wheels looked like this when i bought them
I refurbed them in matt black for my 5 GT Turbo which kept them rather stealth and understated
I have tryed to polish them before but I gave up due to an anodized like coating on the wheels (It was the factory colour under the yellow paint).. This picture shows the result of 2 hours in my blast cab.. see why i gave up lol
The time has come to have another go at polishing.. I split the wheels & sent them to the local blasters but he said it would be to much work due to the thick coating on the dishes... So I just left the centres to be blasted
My friend used these discs to eat the rust on his Mk1... They strip like a b**ch and leave minimal damage to the metal below the paint.. Highly recomended tbh
1 hour a piece later and the dishes look like this
I used 80 grit wet & dry to remove the deeper scratches the sanding disc had left
I worked down the grades 80 - 120 - 240 - 360 - 400 grit wet and dry
This picture shows the 3 different stages
I sanded them down again 400 - 600 - 800 - 1000grit and added a few layers of autosol metal polish
At this point i worked out i had not removed enuff of the deep scratches left by the disc, so I had to take them back all the way back to 120grit and worked up the grades back to 1200 grit then added 5 layers of Autosol.. They now look like this
Ive got over 40 hours in the dishes alone... Im still waiting on getting the centres back from the blasters but they will need much less work to get them shiney hopefully.. leaving me just the bolts to polish
I can't wait to get them built back up!!!!.. thanks for reading
The wheels looked like this when i bought them
I refurbed them in matt black for my 5 GT Turbo which kept them rather stealth and understated
I have tryed to polish them before but I gave up due to an anodized like coating on the wheels (It was the factory colour under the yellow paint).. This picture shows the result of 2 hours in my blast cab.. see why i gave up lol
The time has come to have another go at polishing.. I split the wheels & sent them to the local blasters but he said it would be to much work due to the thick coating on the dishes... So I just left the centres to be blasted
My friend used these discs to eat the rust on his Mk1... They strip like a b**ch and leave minimal damage to the metal below the paint.. Highly recomended tbh
1 hour a piece later and the dishes look like this
I used 80 grit wet & dry to remove the deeper scratches the sanding disc had left
I worked down the grades 80 - 120 - 240 - 360 - 400 grit wet and dry
This picture shows the 3 different stages
I sanded them down again 400 - 600 - 800 - 1000grit and added a few layers of autosol metal polish
At this point i worked out i had not removed enuff of the deep scratches left by the disc, so I had to take them back all the way back to 120grit and worked up the grades back to 1200 grit then added 5 layers of Autosol.. They now look like this
Ive got over 40 hours in the dishes alone... Im still waiting on getting the centres back from the blasters but they will need much less work to get them shiney hopefully.. leaving me just the bolts to polish
I can't wait to get them built back up!!!!.. thanks for reading
