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Oct 24, 2015 | 07:42 PM

#11

jaxdwg

Road Warrior

Joined: May 2005

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From: Minden LA

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buffalolake

The clearcoat sands off easily. I didn't even pull the wheels when I did mine. One warning, if you ever have to deal with salt of the roads in the winter, you don't want to do this. Road salt will attack the bare aluminum, and you'll have to polish them again and again. Mine were shiny like Jax's picture when I first did them, I need to get off of my butt and polish them.

Living in northern Louisiana, I don't need to worry much about the salt air. I do wax them after a touch up polish every now and then to keep them nice.

Oct 24, 2015 | 07:53 PM

#12

jammerx

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Joined: Aug 2007

Posts: 2,052

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From: Virginia Beach

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Originally Posted by Uncle Larry

Yep ... an alternative to removing the lowers and sending them out is to strip ( a quality stripper makes this quite simple ) the clear-coat, sand using increasingly finer sandpaper, then polishing to a brilliant shine. They will look really good. Of course, period polishing will maintain the brilliant shine, and it's quite a bit cheaper too

I have done this with great success. You just have to polish it once a year!