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I actually had two days off this weekend so I started doing some spray can detailing on my wife's '94 Formula. Got out to the shop early Saturday morning and pulled the rims off and set the car up on jack stands. My wife came out and helped with the cleaning. She ran the wire wheel in the drill and knocked off most of the major crud and loose dirt.
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She has never done stuff like this before and she impressed me with her hard work. I ran another wire wheel in the die grinder to get into the nooks and crannies.
After that I went over everything thing with a wire brush and blew it all off with air. I sprayed everything with cheap gloss black enamel and it is hard to describe the change. Even my wife said wow. It does make a difference.
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She wanted to paint the calipers red so we did that and, even though I think leaving everything black would have been better, she likes it.
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The 16 inch rims had NEVER been cleaned on the inside. I knew a lot of the chrome was peeling from when I first cleaned them up last fall. Once I got them off I decided to hit the insides with the wire wheel to remove the peeling chrome and clean up the heavy oxidation.
I was about 1 1/2 hrs cleaning up all four rims. They were a mess. They looked much better after the cleaning but all of the peel spots really lookd bad.
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I decided to paint the inside of each rim black to hide all of the damage.
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Looks much better and once they are on the car I think they'll look great.
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This was a long post, thanks for reading.
Mark
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She has never done stuff like this before and she impressed me with her hard work. I ran another wire wheel in the die grinder to get into the nooks and crannies.
After that I went over everything thing with a wire brush and blew it all off with air. I sprayed everything with cheap gloss black enamel and it is hard to describe the change. Even my wife said wow. It does make a difference.
MVC002F-vi..jpg
She wanted to paint the calipers red so we did that and, even though I think leaving everything black would have been better, she likes it.
MVC010F-vi..jpg
The 16 inch rims had NEVER been cleaned on the inside. I knew a lot of the chrome was peeling from when I first cleaned them up last fall. Once I got them off I decided to hit the insides with the wire wheel to remove the peeling chrome and clean up the heavy oxidation.
I was about 1 1/2 hrs cleaning up all four rims. They were a mess. They looked much better after the cleaning but all of the peel spots really lookd bad.
MVC008F-vi..jpg
I decided to paint the inside of each rim black to hide all of the damage.
MVC006F-vi..jpg
Looks much better and once they are on the car I think they'll look great.
MVC007F-vi..jpg
This was a long post, thanks for reading.
Mark
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