Polishing Alcoa wheels

Mine are coated and specifically state do not polish. If you're are the same, you'll have to remove all the coating before you can polish...Dennis

I treat mine the same as paint, use clay bar, cutting compound, polish then wax. The problem with bare aluminum is the maintenance in retaining the shine. I'm sure there is firefighter on this forum who could relate.

catldog wrote:
Anyone have any experience with aluminum wheels that have the coating that is bad and unable to polish the wheel properly.I had a manufacturers rep with a product called Nuvite tell me that the coating had to be removed before their polish will work, that was their experience with Airstreams,any thoughts? Thanks jg

Nuvite is an aluminum polish, it doesn't polish any clear coat.

But you can polish thru it eventually.

I set my wheel on a front hub so it can spin. then use my 7" angle grinder with a cotton 12" buff, and red rouge for the first polish, get it clean, then a new buff and aluminum polish, the wheel must be free to spin.

polishing a front wheel

Sanding is about it.One guy used aircraft stripper on his