It takes time, patient and a lot of elbow grease!!!


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Hey that looks awesome....

I would love to hear of your process, what you did to achieve this

 

Yeah... Sure do look good. Real good.

Saaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy... Is that an Eckler's bar code sticker I see there???

 

Those look very similar if not identical to the rims on my '90. I just put on Ceramic Brake Pads on front
and scrubbed wheels with brush. Hopefully this will take care of the unsightly dirt on rims and squeaking.

(Installed yesterday 8/3/07)

 

Sharp! Nice job.

 

Looooooks AWESoooooooome[8D]

Great job[sm=hail.gif]

Seriously, type out some detailed procedurs on what you did

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Thank you guys for the nice comments. I put the tires on today and they sure look good or at least I like them. After all the hours of labor I can only like them! I wanted to keep the stock wheels but at the same time have something different. Years of employment with a wheel manufacturing company sure did help.
I washed the wheels very good inside and out, I stripped the clear coat off and clean any little left over paint off. I did paint the inside of the wheel face and inside the center cap area. I sand paper the polished area and the outside edge to smooth the surface, take off the machined lines and eliminate the paint over spray. I wet sand all the way to 2000 paper.
Than I masked the polished area and painted the outside edge. Took the masking off and polish the face with Mothers several times. After I was happy with the shine I clear coat the all wheel. For the center caps I took the C4 emblems off. Stripped the paint off, smooth the surface with sand paper, paint and clear coat. While the paint on the center caps was curing I paint the C4 emblems with white paint for plastic so they show on a dark background. That's how the process went. I did remove the tires off the rims to be able to paint freely, remove the ugly old style hammered in balance weights. I took thewheels back to be mount, balanced with internal weights and install new valves. It's a great winter project but since in Hawaii we don't have winter I decided todo it now.
Good luck if you decide to restore your rims and yes it's totally worth it!

 

I think they look great!!!

 

I don't suppose you could come over here and help meget that hideoussilver lip off of my fake '96 Grand Sports rims, would ya'???

Almost looks like whitewalls.[:'(]

 

Job well done! Most certainly an improvement from start to finish. Thanks for sharing your method with us. My 90's are looking pretty bad. Looking for a new set but if can't find, I know there is hope for the ones I have. j