How do I make my front rims shine?
http://elcaminocentral.com/users/drifter789/tn_100_1402.jpg
Upon a closer look, they are very dull.
But I used the same Turtle Wax Crome Polish and Rust Remover on the rears and they shined up real nice.
http://elcaminocentral.com/users/drifter789/tn_100_1403.jpg
Any suggestions?

Thanks Dave

Anyone have 3rd generation trim?
Front fender?

I think the fronts are painted. You'd have to strip the paint and then spend hours sanding, smoothing and polishing.

Find a wheel polisher and get a quote to see if it is worth the money.

John 8)

im not for 100 percent sure but it looks like you have aluminum front wheels and chrome rear-(steel with chrome over it). they arent mad frome the same stuff, they wont look the same. you will have to by two of whichever you like more if im right

forgot to tell you . hold a magnet next to one of the rear wheels, and then the front. aluminum is non magnetic

I have TT II's that were really bad from sitting in the weather a LONG time. I danded all the bad spots off and worked my way up to 2000 grit to get it real smooth. Then polished the whole thing with a poliching wheel and "Mothers" and it looks as good as new. Took about 4 hours a wheel. You can check my website for pics on the process under Cars/El camino/Wheel refurbish'n

Hey Furious82, checked out your web site, nice job on those rims. Could you go more into detail on how you did that. Including what type of materials are needed.

Thanks Dave
drifter789

Its been a while since i did it so i dont really remember exactly how i did it. I think i stared off with about 600 grit paper and sanded all the oxidation off to get an even surface all around the wheel. Then i moved to to 1000 grit to make it smoother. It took a while since it was a big jump in from 600 to 1000 paper. Then i moved to 1500 and then 2000 sanding the whole wheel thoroughly with each grit paper until it was very smooth after the 2000. Then i took a 5" polishing wheel and mounted it on an electric drill and put some "Mothers" polish on the wheel. I spread the Mothers across the wheel just like i was gonna polish it by hand so that no glops were sitting on the wheel for the polishing wheel to pick up and throw everywhere. Then i used the drill and polished the whole wheel doing small parts at a time and wiping the residue off. After i was finished i hand polished the entire wheel giving more attention to the places that the polishing wheel could not get to. After whiping everthing off it looked like i had just unpacked them from the factory.

I used a dish washing steel wool pad on the second wheel first before i started sanding at all. I did this because it knocks off the larger oxidation specs quick. The pad i used comes with dried dish soap "built in" to the pad and while using it with a little water like wet sanding, the soap made a nice lather where i was rubing to make the wool pad move freely over the alluminum while still smoothing it. You never want 2 different types of metal to stay in contact with each other for a long time because they will begin to react with each other but since i was still going to be sanding a lot off the wheel, all the aluminum that was touched by the steel would be sanded off so it wasent a problem.

I still have 2 more to do so if i do them before you are finished with yours (which i probably wont) i will give you any details i left out. I only have done 2 because it took me about 4 hours per wheel from start to finish.