Way of fixing polished wheels?

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

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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.

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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.

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