Started with just one wheel to see how to correct them to my liking: cleaning, careful: DWC and Raw Billet Aluminum.
I tried polishing; got them to shine, but there are deep scratches, pits and gouges I want out before they find their way onto my GTO. I wet sanded one of the spokes with 1000 grit and followed up finer through 3000 grit, but still wasn't where I wanted them. I figured at this point I'd experiment with something smaller; the center caps. I have over an hour into each one, this is going to be a job:
Pictured above; left one part way done, right one not touched yet.
Odd, the rear wheels have center caps of a lower profile than the fronts. Anyways, I removed all four center caps and their O-Rings and thoroughly washed them.
The center caps are removed by pushing them from the front through the barrel side of the wheel. Either someone couldn't figure this out or simply decided to remove/install them with a claw hammer and screwdriver:
The fronts had marks almost as bad! Funny how the seller represented these wheels as almost like new. Some peoples view of almost like new are quite different than other's, that's for sure!
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Picked these CCW SP550's up used: New Shoes
Started with just one wheel to see how to correct them to my liking: cleaning, careful: DWC and Raw Billet Aluminum.
I tried polishing; got them to shine, but there are deep scratches, pits and gouges I want out before they find their way onto my GTO. I wet sanded one of the spokes with 1000 grit and followed up finer through 3000 grit, but still wasn't where I wanted them. I figured at this point I'd experiment with something smaller; the center caps. I have over an hour into each one, this is going to be a job:
Pictured above; left one part way done, right one not touched yet.
Odd, the rear wheels have center caps of a lower profile than the fronts. Anyways, I removed all four center caps and their O-Rings and thoroughly washed them.
The center caps are removed by pushing them from the front through the barrel side of the wheel. Either someone couldn't figure this out or simply decided to remove/install them with a claw hammer and screwdriver:
The fronts had marks almost as bad! Funny how the seller represented these wheels as almost like new. Some peoples view of almost like new are quite different than other's, that's for sure!
Here's one poped out of the wheel:
Then again after cleaning:
Hammered
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