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well as the topic suggests i finally had enough of not being able to remove some etching/watermarks from the faces of my rims (see pic below)

so after another hand polish with Belgom alu, i decided to bite the bullet and try the belgom on an sfx3 with the kestrel, which is unheard of? started off very very slow with just a dod of belgom to begin with to see if the pad would marr or scratch the finish - it didnt, so i continued the same process and gradually worked up to a speed of 2.5 which i felt was plenty

and the results pretty much speak for themselves.....


before halfway through a hand polish...just not good enough! (but miles better than they were)




and the finished result with the kestrel:



relfection of my floor makes the look woody





comments and criticism welcome

Dave

good work mate they look stunning

Gorgeous wheels! Nice one.

Nice handy work there fella!

I take it the rims are bare metal?

I've just had the lip of my rims polished so need to stay on top of keeping them looking polished.

yes bare aluminium

how do you get the feathers out the hole after?

looks fubaring mint mate. i'm off to have a play now!!!

Ellis

they look ace

what do i need to do this to mine!

a DA polisher, kestrel DAS6/PC/Meguiars G220

a finishing pad preferably 3.5'' (sonus sfx3 is what i used) 2of should be good

Belgom Alu metal polish

you could get these all from here

www.cleanyourcar.co.uk

the Belgom Alu you will need to get from

www.elitecarcare.co.uk

badly_dubbed wrote:yes bare aluminium

Blimey, not surised they needed a polish.

I was washing my Lupo down yesterday and looked at the polished lip on them. Was slight tarnishing already and they were only done 3 weeks ago haha.
Gotta stay on top of them so will polish the lip on them next weekend.