Way of fixing polished wheels?

[GoBabyVroommm]

Well i'm really pissed that I put on the nitto 275's on my 17x11 rim. At the time I need something fast cause my BFGs were showing metal. Friend had them sitting around. If it isn't bad enough that it looks stupid as hell it can't cover the edge of the wheel. Well I hit the side walk 2 times already. Nothing big just little marks.

I was thinking if I grinding it,sanding it smooth and then polishing it. Do you think that would work in fixing that one rim?

 

[macdstr8up]

mothers powerball? i dunno it might work, depends on how deep it is.

 

[GoBabyVroommm]

mothers powerball? i dunno it might work, depends on how deep it is.

Not to deep at all. I think I have an idea i'm going to try it and post before and after pics.

 

[SilverSteed]

If it's not deep, I'd just sand and polish.

 

[03ghoststang]

i believe that there a thread on doing that a while back not 100% sure though

 

[GoBabyVroommm]

i believe that there a thread on doing that a while back not 100% sure though

I go seach again but i hate some searchs because you put the crap your looking for and sometimes you can't find it.

 

[Dope 97GT]

my advise stop hitting sidewalks. But there was a thread like a week or two ago on it.

 

[urban96]

may want to sand the spots smooth with like 250 grit and work up to like 600 grit then hit it with some polish

 

[[Twitch]]

Here's how I did it

So yea, I got distracted for a second and I went over a curb in a parking lot and damged my driver side front rim.

So I decided to try to fix it. I can't make it worse by trying to fix it right?

This is an old scratch the rim had when I bought the car

BEFORE

SANDING

AFTER

That scratch was no biggy, but this one, this is the one I just made last night. As you can see, I hit it pretty hard even though I was going idle speed.

BEFORE

SANDING

AFTER

Pretty happy with results. I've never done this before but it came out great.

Only costed 7$ CAD for sanding paper but if you know a bodyshop, you can steal it from them

First, I used 80 grit sandpaper and sanded the area down until it's smooth with no pits and no scratches. The surface will be rough but it's normal. Thenn I continued sanding to blend the damaged area with the rest of the rim.

After, I used 180 just to polish the area.

Last, I wetsanded the area using 2000 grit sandpaper. Then I washed the rim, use rim polish to polish out the area and voila!

Pretty easy and much cheaper than to get it fixed at a shop or to buy a new rim.

 

[urban96]

do what twitch did

 

[exindust]

awesome job on curb repair twitch!