Hi, there are a lot of threads asking whats the best way of polishing and restoring aluminium parts. There are plenty of different ways of doing it already so I wont get into that but I thought this might interest people here...
I have bought [polishing bits from www.thepolishingshop.co.uk a few times and always found them to be helpful so I emailed them and asked what they would recommend to protect car alloy wheels from the winter roads. They suggested Belgom Alu as it not only polished but also contains a wax so protects as well. They were confident/kind enough to send me a small sample to try out.
Given that it has some polishing abilities I thought I would offer it a real challenge, my Audi TT wheels.
I stripped and polished these on Christmas day last year then left them for 2 months so had corroded quite badly...
I used a small amount of the polish on a rag, this was the result of about 30 seconds work...
and another 30 seconds...
Wheel done, cleaned up and quickly reapplied. left to haze over before polishing off
I realise the results are not perfect - lets be honest the wheels really need flatting back off and re-polishing from scratch but given the state they were in I am very impressed with how they had come up. Autosol wouldn't have achieved this, I am confident of that.
I would love to show you a picture now to see how well the product has protected the wheels but I have sold the car and the new owner painted them white last week!
I have bought [polishing bits from www.thepolishingshop.co.uk a few times and always found them to be helpful so I emailed them and asked what they would recommend to protect car alloy wheels from the winter roads. They suggested Belgom Alu as it not only polished but also contains a wax so protects as well. They were confident/kind enough to send me a small sample to try out.
Given that it has some polishing abilities I thought I would offer it a real challenge, my Audi TT wheels.
I stripped and polished these on Christmas day last year then left them for 2 months so had corroded quite badly...
I used a small amount of the polish on a rag, this was the result of about 30 seconds work...
and another 30 seconds...
Wheel done, cleaned up and quickly reapplied. left to haze over before polishing off
I realise the results are not perfect - lets be honest the wheels really need flatting back off and re-polishing from scratch but given the state they were in I am very impressed with how they had come up. Autosol wouldn't have achieved this, I am confident of that.
I would love to show you a picture now to see how well the product has protected the wheels but I have sold the car and the new owner painted them white last week!