Need help with some WS-6 wheels

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Mitchubishievo

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Hey everyone,



I did a search and went through 15 pages without finding any solutions to cases like mine at the moment. I'm cleaning and protecting a set of Pontiac Trans Am WS-6 wheels. I'm not positive, but I do believe these are chrome wheels, not just polished. They are CAKED with blackness on the inside. I've used A2Z, Poorboy's Spray n' Rinse, Flitz Chrome Cleaner, and even Eimann Fabrik APC (full strength!). This was all done with a firm sponge as well. Anyways, the faces are nice an clean, but the insides showed VERY little progress. I even used some old claybar and finally killed it trying to clay the unclayable. The one thing I havn't tried is steel wool with my cleaners, but would like to ask everyone here first what I could do? He doesn't expect anyting to be done about the insides but I want to surprise the guy. Please get me some responses fast. Thanks in advance.
 
Have you tried metal polish on the inside of the wheels? It's possible that the outside portion is polished aluminum and the inside is unpolished, maybe some metal polish would clean them up?
 
I've used very fine steel wool on the inside of my rims. The WS6 rims may be aluminum rims. So if you do take steel wool, and remove all the clearcoat from the inside (probably not going to remove ALL of it), the worst that would happen is that they'd corode sooner - just have to keep 'em clean.



Before you do that, you could try scotch brite pad.
 
I've ran into wheels like that before, personally i would rather have dirty wheels than damaged wheels. After spending an hour using every wheel cleaner and APC that i had i couldn't get the wheels completely clean. Apparently the owner hadn't cleaned the wheels in over a year and didn't mind a little bit of brake dust.
 
^^^That's exactly it...these are NEVER and have never been taken care of. Well, I'll try my #0000 steel wool and a scotch brite pad lightly...if nothing occurs, I'll walk away knowing I tried everything possible short of a re-chroming :lol:.
 
If you don't take care of things that are suppose to be shiney (especially metal items), they start to corode and pit. At that point, there isn't too much you can do :(
 
Brillo pads are probably the only way to get them clean. Cleaning them and then painting them black with caliper paint would be the best option-leaving them dirty is the easiest.
 
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