Aluminum Rims Pitting
 

is there any possible way to ''fix" aluminum rims that are pitting? like sanding and polishing or something?

Depends on how "pitted" they are. if its just a surface condition, then yes, you can fix that easily. If its been allowed to fester for a while its going to be a little more difficult to remove it. Look into Eastwood in PA or Caswell Plating in NY for aluminum wheel polishing kits, they give you the all important greaseless grinding compounds for the polishing wheels so you can grind-polish away the imperfection areas. I will tell you ahead of time this process will take you a few hours per wheel, but the results if you take your time are just as good as any wheel polisher can do. We used to get 150 per wheel to correct the aluminum oxide issue that you see and polish the wheel out, so that would be a cool 600 per set to correct and polish the wheels out, 50 a wheel if it just needed to be buffed out is still 200 minimum. After polishing you can shoot the wheel with Nyloc paint from eastwood, its like the clear coat from the factory and keeps the shine for a long time, and unlike the factory clear, it lasts.

600 to polish or 700 for New Wheels, seems like a no brainer :humm:

no kiddin huh, i would try just some mothers aluminum polish with the finest steel wool you can get, if that doesn't do what you want then just save some pennys and get ya new set of wheels :tu:

Mothers? If Foose wasn't being paid he wouldn't put his hand on a can of that crap, and he doesn't use it on his show cars. Like extra work later down the road to remove chalky residue and bluing? Then use that junk. You can easily make a much better polish yourself at home, plenty of online resources show you how real pro's do it. If you just want to buy a kick butt polish, get Gord's.

And if your silly enough to try and do the steel wool idea, make sure to get some 3m swirl remover and wet scour with it with extra fine steel wool. Makes for alot harder work than using polishing compounds (Black, Blue, White, then Liquid Ebony) and its guaranteed to leave micro scratches, you'll have to buff them out in the end anyways.

it works on my wheels very well, i'm sure if you don't know how to use it then yeah its worthless :argh:

Hit em with the sandblaster and spray them with clear, better yet scrap them and buy steel wheels after all it's a truck :c: