Gave the Speedlines there last "service"
 

So car is pretty much ready for Leeds tomorrow, still needed a quick polish and wax as been sat in the garage all week, but the wheels... oh the wheels!

The Speedlines are starting to look the worse for wear and It has been a little more than a year since they had a good clean, ideally they need a refurb but I cannot spring to that at the moment!
So I thought why not see what I can do with them..

I am a little annoyed as I had ordered some Ironx from clean your car on tuesday (48hour delivery) but it hasn't arrived yet! so had to make do with what I had..

The wheels had been cleaned normally through the spokes with a long microfibre brush etc etc. I generally just use some car shampoo as its nice and gentle on everything perhaps I should use something nastier!

So the process I employed was as follows:

1.) Remove wheels and clean with some nasty wheel acid and rinse. (I used some turtle wax cheapo stuff and a detailing brush) after that this is what I was presented with... A crap load of tar spots :( bloody top dressing!
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2.) Some serious elbow grease with some Autoglym Tar Remover/WD40 and some VPower!... I must get some Tardis? as this really took ages! First wheel... I spent longer on the rest! doing the front aswell...
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3.) Next Clean again with wheel acid and rinse to remove any chemicals left on the wheels.. and then Clay!!
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4.) Next step was to polish and then seal, I used some Poorboys polish with carnauba wax on the fronts, some autoglym wheel sealant sprayed on the insides of the wheels and wiped over then allowed to dry before wiping excess with a microfibre.. and finally some poorboys wheel sealant to finish off the fronts... this stuff smells good!
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After that it was dress the tyre and re-fit. This hole process took nearly 2 hours per wheel!!, I still managed to get a coat of polish and wax on the car while waiting for wheels to haze/dry and so forth, so not to bad... considering I started at 12.30 ;)

Needless to say the next time this crap needs doing they are going for a refurb!:rant: :splat: :polish::polish::polish: :D

2 hours per wheel? :o

For tomorrow, I spent about an hour on the whole car, wheels included! :lol:

p.s. they look great mate.











but the gunmetal wheels are nicer ;)

Normally I spend 5mins per wheel! :| The finish on the inside is crap though rough as sand paper so tar sticks really well :S :(
They really need a refurb just trying to make the most of an old set of rims ;) (Sure there is a joke somewhere in that for Greg) as funds tight.... Wanda wanted to drive up on 888s!

I prefer the other rims too :p

The other ones do really suit the car. Nice job though
Must have taken alot of rubbing to get your rims that clean..

:D

It will spend a lot of time in Germany on the other ones!, At some point I might well make a swap to the others for road use. Probably when the current set of goodyears wears out, as Wanda is warming to the look of the "better colour" ones more these days ;)

Looking mint :ok: - great job and worth the effort!

these are gorgeous wheels

Hmm i might have to do mine although am selling the car, they look amazing!