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I have a set of chrome zr1 corvette wheels and they are a little dull. Will all metal polish help,its sort of swirled in a way. Will #80 work a little bit of it to get at those swirls im a n00b when it comes to chrome . Any products that will help post quick as im going to auto zone + wal mart a little latter i can pick some stuff up . The inside of the rim is bad with brake dust apc ???
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Re: restoring wheel
You cannot remove swirls or scratches out of chrome, you can have the wheels re-chromed and this will fix the problem. Here's an article we wrote that explains this.Originally posted by WhiteCamaro88 View Post
What it means to remove a scratch out of anything...
In order to remove a scratch out of anything, metal, plastic glass, paint, etc. You must remove material around the scratch until the surface is level or equal to the lowest depths of the scratch or scratches.
The below diagram if for paint, the the same thing applies to just about an surface material or coating.
In essences, you don't really remove a scratch, you remove material around a scratch.
Then the big question is, is the material or coating workable, as in can you abrade small particles of it and leave behind an original looking surface. For example, some things you can abrade, (remove the scratch), but you can never completely remove all of your abrading marks, thus you can't really fix the problem, all you can do is exchange one set of scratches of a different set of scratches.
The next questions is, how thick is the surface material you're working on or the coating. You are limited to what you can do by the thickness of these to things, (surface coating or surface material), and whether or not this surface is workable.
Sometimes you don't know what you can so until you try. It's always a good idea to test your choice of products, applicator materials and application process, (By hand or by machine), to an inconspicuous area. If you cannot make a small area look good with your product, applicator and process, you will not be able to make the entire surface look good. It's always a good idea to test first and error on the side of caution, versus make a mistake you cannot undo.
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