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Old May 24, 2004 | 11:08 AM
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Wheel Restoration

Does anybody have any experiance with these places that do alloy wheel refinishing? and if so can you recomend a good one.
I know it's going to cost some money but I personaly realy like the look of stock GSL-SE wheels and want mine to look brand new.

who did it , How long'd it take, how'd it look ect.

Thanks, Alex
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Old May 24, 2004 | 11:16 AM
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Why the hell am I called linhong all of a sudden???

- Alex
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Old May 24, 2004 | 12:59 PM
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Been wanting the same for my GSL wheels. I was thinking of having them sandblasted and just clear coated?

What d'ya think guys?
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Old May 24, 2004 | 01:30 PM
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Well I just wetsanded mine and I am going to
reapply some clear coat. They look much better now
it took me about 30 40 mins for each wheel.
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Old May 24, 2004 | 02:00 PM
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I thought about about doing mine myself, somebody mentioned using a product called aircraft stripper on the forum a while back and said they had good results.
but I have some curb rash on a couple of my wheels that I would like to get fixed.

Looks like I'm linhong for good.........wtf,
- Alex
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Old May 24, 2004 | 02:15 PM
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You just need to log out, then log back in useing your orioginal user name and password.
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Old May 24, 2004 | 03:15 PM
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I figured it'd be something like that, it's good to be back

- Inhong er Alex
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Old May 24, 2004 | 04:40 PM
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i figured sandblasting them would be fine, guess i should quit making assumptions, you know what they say about them, it makes an *** of you and umption
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Old May 24, 2004 | 04:50 PM
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it's safe to pressure wash the wheels with some soapy water, correct? i was planning on doing that.
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Old May 24, 2004 | 06:33 PM
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I'm using some Dupont wheel paint on my wheels. After sanding off all the clear coat and smoothing the wheel with some 220 wet sanding just apply several coats of paint and the clear stuff of the same brand and they look sweet. Good thick paint too (dosent chip off). I'll post some pics later.
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Old May 24, 2004 | 06:43 PM
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Ive pressure washed lots of wheels before.
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Old May 24, 2004 | 09:44 PM
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Sorry the paint is from Dupli-Color (high performance wheel coating is the name) not dupont and my digi cam is on the fritz so... gimmie a couple of days for the pics.
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