Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish is great stuff. I use it for all kinds of things. For example, I have a Ruger GP100 .357 magnum revolver that had a mat finish and I wanted to polish it to a shine. Using just a rag and some Mothers M&A Polish, it had almost a mirror finish within about 30 minutes. I just polished it while watching the news on TV. The point is that it not only works on aluminum but also steel. Of course, it's just a polish and other polishes, such as regular polishing compound, are good too, but I've had such good results with Mother's that it's my go-to general purpose polish. In fact, if it warms up today (it's March 21 as I write this), I'm going to go out and polish the aluminum wheels on my Triumph Rocket III Touring today. Good video! Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for this great video. You did a great job filming and presenting your project. They came out really great and I'm sure they look great on your car trailer.
That was incredible. Inspires me to do it myself. As opposed to buying new rims, I'll try and find some used ones and try some good old elbow grease. Thank you for the confidence boost.
Great job man! They look brand new. You obviouslydon't give yourself enough credit. I didn't think they would look no where close to the final product. Amazing!
I've got 4 on my old truck, 67' f-100. I had them polished back in the 70's, and I'm going to have to start all over again, just like you did. I'm also looking for another wheel for a spare. Thanks for the video. Your wheels are starting to look great again...nice work.
I think what you did is fantastic! One thing I like to mention that is very useful: make sure you do what you did around the area where the tire bead meets the rim. Making that area smooth allows a good air-tight seal for your tire.
You can actually use a electric grinder with a cotton buffing wheel and different color rouge polishing compound. If you have some scratches or whatever to get out, you can use the green or red, which is more aggressive of a compound and it will smooth it out, then follow up with the white which will really make it shine. Then use a softer cotton polishing wheel and the mother's mag polish, followed up with the mother polish that's in a bottle with some micro fiber towels. It make it shine like you have no idea! Great info. You did a great job with the prep on the wheels. I actually just bought a used pro tech truck box that I am going to polish up tomorrow gonna take a while because of how big it is. I'll probably use a car buffer with some mother's and just go to town on it.
I liked the way you produced this video.The results of the different steps were the important part. My Silverado wheels are badly corroded and it's a project I'll tackle in the spring. Thanks.
Jim Vincitore don't waste your time on mother's polish. The problem is that it's a single stage polish. Any truck stop has BETTER stuff than mother's polish.
Jim Vincitor, Bush polish sold at truck stops is almost as good as ours. I would say thats the best I know of off the shelf. Most polish is too hard to use or leave a haze or is just plain made to sell as cheap as possible for more profit. We are currently not manufacturing due to moving to new location. mirrorshineusa.com is ours.
You did a really good job on you're rims, that's most likely around 2 to 2 and a half hours to do each rim. Very time consuming. Now if you spray them down with WD 40, that helps keep the luster of your time. Road tar won't stick. I do this to my motorcycle mag rims and the engines, and clutch and hand levers at my motorcyce shop of 40 odd years. Yeah I would haft to say you had done a superb job friend. Thumbs up for you.
Excellent, and thank you for posting your experience with restoring these aluminum wheels, as this is actually applicable to refinishing anything aluminum. I am looking to bring back some shine to my RV's aluminum framed windows and door frame. I was considering etch priming them and painting them. But now, seeing that polishing is actually the easy part, I think I will forgo the paint, and simply polish them, because other than being greyish, they are in perfect condition. Thanks for the useful info.
Lighter fluid, or naptha is good for removing the adhesive. When I did my wheels, after cleaning, scrubbing, sanding n polishing, I taped up the slots, (mine were round holes, similar to the Peterbilt wheels, going on my 72 Chevy C10) And all the openings on the front of the wheel, then I painted the backside using high gloss black engine paint, resistant to oil, water n gas. This treatment gives the front side more contrast against the black backside and the holes or slots just pop, giving it a more highly detailed look, n the imperfections are hardly noticeable. I've gotten many compliments on the way they look. Good job sir. It is a labor of love. The more time you spend with them the more shine you get out of them. Almost chrome looking...
Those look amazing. Have always preferred highly polished aluminum even over chrome (personal preference). Those look like the American Slot Mags from the ‘70’s (think Starsky and Hutch Torino).
I got an old work truck recently and of course I wanna polish it up and make it look sharper LOL so thanks for the video exactly what I expected to polish them out but now I know I'm not gonna ruin them LOL
Hey brother I don't know if you know this trick or not but after your final polish if you use a cloth and take talcum powder or even flour and coat the cloth with the powder and wipe the wheels off. It takes all the black out and you will be impressed even if you try it on a rough area. It shines like chrome. Give it a try
I've restored several sets of aluminum rims. I'm just finishing a set for my 03 Super Duty. They are huge 16x12 Mickey Thompson Classic Locks. They were absolutely blitzed when I got them. It was like the guy put them on his truck, and never cleaned or washed them at all, and just beat them up for about 6 years. I've spent at least 25 hours per wheel- mostly wet sanding to get the surface nearly 100% immaculate. I started with 400, then 600, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, then polishing by hand with the Mother's Mag and Aluminum polish... It's been a ton of work but they are far better than new, and will be stunning with the new Mickey Thompson 36x15.50 MTZ radials!!
They look pretty good! Thanks for posting. I’m doing my Alcoa aluminum wheels now on my F 450. The rears are in terrible shape. Pitted, but after some initial wire wheel work I’m optimistic I can get them to shine again. Dually BTW.
Yes indeed MUCH improvement will look sweet once installed with the right center caps, Good work well worth your time to share. I wll be doing this very method you have shown here. So ya , THANKS.
say man thanks I have a set of Corvette rally wheels this is just needed to see. curb rash or not they look awesome thanks for sharing. now it's time for me to get to work
I had a set of these mags and I use too use autosol mixed with a little kero on them instead didn't need a buffer as the kero use to make the autosol glide over the rim too give it a brilliant shine and only took 5-10 mins to complete a rim...
Very nice finish after the buffing with the Mother Ball. I recently refinished a set of aluminum Honda Enkei wheels that I clear coated after the fine sanding and 0000 steel wool. They looked clean and sharp but I believe they would have looked awesome like your finished wheel if they had received the buff treatment. Nice job.
I bought my 8 lug16.5 westerns slots new in 1977, they are a machine finish, and I have to clean them in one direction, yes they take lots of time to polish, but the end result is awesome. I find that magic mix cleans the best and that simichrone polish gives the best shine. Luckily I have no curb rash at all
Mistake to use "Steel Wool" on aluminum. Sure, they look good now but there's a little thing called "Galvanic Corrosion" that you unintentionally invited to the party. Also, ONLY use aluminum oxide sanding abrasives, No Emory Cloth or any black sanding paper, discs or otherwise. It DOES make a difference. You know what I'm talking about in a year or two. If you keep them very clean and polished you may get lucky but it's a lot of work to rely on lucky.
0000 steel wool is so fine it doesn't damage aluminum 😂. Guys are sanding aluminum with 80 grit and as with any aluminum polishing... you work up to get out scratches and swirls. Some of the best professional polishers in the trucking industry use 0000 steel wool but what would they know 😂.
@@TheRoadhammer379 If they are using "Steel" wool on aluminum, they DON'T know what they are doing. Or any sand paper that isn't aluminum oxide or scotch brite. The grit level is irrelevant. The material of the abrasive matters on aluminum. Using steel wool instead of aluminum wool on aluminum is an uneducated, BIG mistake. Google "Galvanic Corrosion".
Two thumbs up on the Mothers. I did the aluminum wheels on my 79 Vette a few years back and found out thru trial & error about the Mothers. Now I only touch up my wheels 'bout once a year with the Mothers.
We had 4 of these on our 1974 nova. We cleaned them up with steel wool and just shot them gloss white. Looked real good too. I don't think they even had buffing balls like that back then.
You did a great job of showing the before, midpoint, and what they could look like with more effort. Outstanding video.
Mothers Mag & Aluminum polish is great stuff. I use it for all kinds of things. For example, I have a Ruger GP100 .357 magnum revolver that had a mat finish and I wanted to polish it to a shine. Using just a rag and some Mothers M&A Polish, it had almost a mirror finish within about 30 minutes. I just polished it while watching the news on TV. The point is that it not only works on aluminum but also steel. Of course, it's just a polish and other polishes, such as regular polishing compound, are good too, but I've had such good results with Mother's that it's my go-to general purpose polish. In fact, if it warms up today (it's March 21 as I write this), I'm going to go out and polish the aluminum wheels on my Triumph Rocket III Touring today.
Good video! Thanks for posting it.
Looks really good. Thanks for the tip. I got deep dish slots on my corvette an this video really helped me out. Thanks again.
Thank you for your time and effort to show the rest of us how to make such a difference in polishing aluminum rims into a chrome look all over again..
Thanks for this great video. You did a great job filming and presenting your project. They came out really great and I'm sure they look great on your car trailer.
That was incredible. Inspires me to do it myself. As opposed to buying new rims, I'll try and find some used ones and try some good old elbow grease. Thank you for the confidence boost.
Great finished product I would still love to see that 15-minute video thanks for posting they look awesome
Great job man! They look brand new. You obviouslydon't give yourself enough credit. I didn't think they would look no where close to the final product. Amazing!
I've got 4 on my old truck, 67' f-100. I had them polished back in the 70's, and I'm going to have to start all over again, just like you did. I'm also looking for another wheel for a spare. Thanks for the video. Your wheels are starting to look great again...nice work.
I think what you did is fantastic! One thing I like to mention that is very useful: make sure you do what you did around the area where the tire bead meets the rim. Making that area smooth allows a good air-tight seal for your tire.
You can actually use a electric grinder with a cotton buffing wheel and different color rouge polishing compound. If you have some scratches or whatever to get out, you can use the green or red, which is more aggressive of a compound and it will smooth it out, then follow up with the white which will really make it shine. Then use a softer cotton polishing wheel and the mother's mag polish, followed up with the mother polish that's in a bottle with some micro fiber towels. It make it shine like you have no idea! Great info. You did a great job with the prep on the wheels. I actually just bought a used pro tech truck box that I am going to polish up tomorrow gonna take a while because of how big it is. I'll probably use a car buffer with some mother's and just go to town on it.
This is exactly what I needed to see 😊
Am very impressed how good of job you did on these wheels. They looked like new or better then new. Thanks for sharing.
I liked the way you produced this video.The results of the different steps were the important part. My Silverado wheels are badly corroded and it's a project I'll tackle in the spring. Thanks.
Great video! Heading to the store for aluminum polish and Mothers ball! Thank you!
Jim Vincitore don't waste your time on mother's polish. The problem is that it's a single stage polish. Any truck stop has BETTER stuff than mother's polish.
What brand do you recommend?
Jim Vincitor, Bush polish sold at truck stops is almost as good as ours. I would say thats the best I know of off the shelf. Most polish is too hard to use or leave a haze or is just plain made to sell as cheap as possible for more profit. We are currently not manufacturing due to moving to new location. mirrorshineusa.com is ours.
that wheel still looks pretty damn good buddy good job thanks for the tips
Dude, those look freakin awesome. this video is exactly what I was looking for to do the exact same rims.. great job guy..
Same here. I got some 16.5x8 that I need to get polished and thrown on my nissan hardbody
Nice, thanks for sharing and great work bud!!
All i can say is wow!! Looks awesome i didn't know you could get them that clean.. Good job Bud....👍👍
I know this is an older video, but was impressed with your HONEST assessment of the their surface. Your marketing department is to be commended!!!
Thanks from Australia. Very useful and excellent tutorial.
Great job looks awesome!!
great job! next time I change tires ji am going to follow your advice. they look great!
Thanks for posting. They look nice.
You did a really good job on you're rims, that's most likely around 2 to 2 and a half hours to do each rim. Very time consuming. Now if you spray them down with WD 40, that helps keep the luster of your time. Road tar won't stick. I do this to my motorcycle mag rims and the engines, and clutch and hand levers at my motorcyce shop of 40 odd years. Yeah I would haft to say you had done a superb job friend. Thumbs up for you.
Wow i used to have those wheels and i cleaned them and polished them by hand over and over and never got them to look that nice and shiny. Good job
Big difference. Thanks for the advice.
Wow! I had no idea Aluminium wheels could look like that! That's awesome. I am definitely doing this to my Aluminum wheels. Thanks for the info man.
Our old square body is going to look awesome, thanks!!
Wow, they look great!
wow what a change ! thank you URJB for sharing this tip i appreciate this sir and im gonna try it on my car thats very old
THANKS! Just picked up a set of wheels for my truck and was wanting to restore them.
Great video! Very cool! Thank you! WOW! THAT'S SHINNY!
they look really good. I love polished aluminum.
good job man those turned out great. i have a set im gonna do that to . thanks for the tip
Excellent, and thank you for posting your experience with restoring these aluminum wheels, as this is actually applicable to refinishing anything aluminum. I am looking to bring back some shine to my RV's aluminum framed windows and door frame. I was considering etch priming them and painting them. But now, seeing that polishing is actually the easy part, I think I will forgo the paint, and simply polish them, because other than being greyish, they are in perfect condition. Thanks for the useful info.
Great job, they look very good.
Wow that was a cool transformation! Great job! Thanks for the post!!
Lighter fluid, or naptha is good for removing the adhesive.
When I did my wheels, after cleaning, scrubbing, sanding n polishing, I taped up the slots, (mine were round holes, similar to the Peterbilt wheels, going on my 72 Chevy C10)
And all the openings on the front of the wheel, then I painted the backside using high gloss black engine paint, resistant to oil, water n gas.
This treatment gives the front side more contrast against the black backside and the holes or slots just pop, giving it a more highly detailed look, n the imperfections are hardly noticeable. I've gotten many compliments on the way they look.
Good job sir. It is a labor of love. The more time you spend with them the more shine you get out of them. Almost chrome looking...
Great video!
Good video, Iam getting my old mag sprinter IIs out, clean them up and get some BFGs ASAP. THANKS!
Those look amazing. Have always preferred highly polished aluminum even over chrome (personal preference). Those look like the American Slot Mags from the ‘70’s (think Starsky and Hutch Torino).
Great job I’m going to try this on my little SLK wheels 👍🇬🇧
I got an old work truck recently and of course I wanna polish it up and make it look sharper LOL so thanks for the video exactly what I expected to polish them out but now I know I'm not gonna ruin them LOL
That looks great. 3M adhesive remover gets the tape remains off in seconds and won't hurt painted surfaces
Awesome job!
Looks great!!
Really nice, man. Patrick, Gold Hill, Oregon
That's outstanding!!!!
Knows how to turn a simple story into something you don't want to even finish listening to!!
U clearly didn't need the tips and information then cause people who do they watch it to learn
Ok turnip
Rims look great.
What a nice job you did with these rims!
WOW!!!!! GORGEOUS!!!
Thanks man! Perfect vid
Hey brother I don't know if you know this trick or not but after your final polish if you use a cloth and take talcum powder or even flour and coat the cloth with the powder and wipe the wheels off. It takes all the black out and you will be impressed even if you try it on a rough area. It shines like chrome. Give it a try
Thanks great tip , I'm trying that too !
Billy Mehaffey i
wiping it with flour?
Does this work??
good tip,i used to use baby powder,likely same result,but mine smell better lol
I've restored several sets of aluminum rims. I'm just finishing a set for my 03 Super Duty. They are huge 16x12 Mickey Thompson Classic Locks. They were absolutely blitzed when I got them. It was like the guy put them on his truck, and never cleaned or washed them at all, and just beat them up for about 6 years. I've spent at least 25 hours per wheel- mostly wet sanding to get the surface nearly 100% immaculate. I started with 400, then 600, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, then polishing by hand with the Mother's Mag and Aluminum polish... It's been a ton of work but they are far better than new, and will be stunning with the new Mickey Thompson 36x15.50 MTZ radials!!
I've been hanging on to some aluminum rims that take 60 series tires for my S15. Thinking about doing exactly this, Thanks!
They look pretty good! Thanks for posting. I’m doing my Alcoa aluminum wheels now on my F 450. The rears are in terrible shape. Pitted, but after some initial wire wheel work I’m optimistic I can get them to shine again. Dually BTW.
looks great.thanks..wow..you gave them a second long hard life
Le quedaron de super lujo, very Nice, congratularon buddy !!!
Great job well done
Wow......GREAT JOB!!
Best how to do video ever. Striaght to the point. Didnt tell me a story I didnt want to hear and got straight to the point.
I love old school mags. I always had them on my cars. Yes im old..haha
Hell try polishing wooden wagon wheels LMAO that's old then have to polish that mule shoes to.
Great video.
Got some wheels just like that. Used to be on my 56 Chevy. Gonna clean them up and this should help them sell better. Thanks.
Yes indeed MUCH improvement will look sweet once installed with the right center caps, Good work well worth your time to share. I wll be doing this very method you have shown here. So ya , THANKS.
Finished product is awesome !
They look darn good for a wheel that has seen actual service.
Excellent Video! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
say man thanks I have a set of Corvette rally wheels this is just needed to see. curb rash or not they look awesome thanks for sharing. now it's time for me to get to work
I'm going to say that they came out a hundred times better don't let they started good job nice tips
June-06-2023 Im back again over and over againg YOU JUST DID A SUPERB JOB 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🍑🇺🇸
Dude, you did an awesome job on those wheels
Good job 👏🏻
I had a set of these mags and I use too use autosol mixed with a little kero on them instead didn't need a buffer as the kero use to make the autosol glide over the rim too give it a brilliant shine and only took 5-10 mins to complete a rim...
Those rims looked great on the old 78 Chevy Malibu
Wow i have some mags i've been saving for my old van. You've gave me hope they can look great...................................thank-you !!!
Very nice finish after the buffing with the Mother Ball. I recently refinished a set of aluminum Honda Enkei wheels that I clear coated after the fine sanding and 0000 steel wool. They looked clean and sharp but I believe they would have looked awesome like your finished wheel if they had received the buff treatment. Nice job.
I like the cadence of your video. Good info too
keep it simple you did the trick good job
Super impressive!
I bought my 8 lug16.5 westerns slots new in 1977, they are a machine finish, and I have to clean them in one direction, yes they take lots of time to polish, but the end result is awesome.
I find that magic mix cleans the best and that simichrone polish gives the best shine.
Luckily I have no curb rash at all
Mistake to use "Steel Wool" on aluminum. Sure, they look good now but there's a little thing called "Galvanic Corrosion" that you unintentionally invited to the party. Also, ONLY use aluminum oxide sanding abrasives, No Emory Cloth or any black sanding paper, discs or otherwise. It DOES make a difference. You know what I'm talking about in a year or two. If you keep them very clean and polished you may get lucky but it's a lot of work to rely on lucky.
There has to beimmersion in a conductive liquid and electricity involved for galvanic corrosion.
60+ years of it being used on aluminium says otherwise, but yeah what are facts.
@@-DEATHSTROKE shhhh......don't confuse him with facts. Lol
0000 steel wool is so fine it doesn't damage aluminum 😂. Guys are sanding aluminum with 80 grit and as with any aluminum polishing... you work up to get out scratches and swirls. Some of the best professional polishers in the trucking industry use 0000 steel wool but what would they know 😂.
@@TheRoadhammer379 If they are using "Steel" wool on aluminum, they DON'T know what they are doing. Or any sand paper that isn't aluminum oxide or scotch brite. The grit level is irrelevant. The material of the abrasive matters on aluminum. Using steel wool instead of aluminum wool on aluminum is an uneducated, BIG mistake. Google "Galvanic Corrosion".
Those turned out really nice
Nice, world's a difference from the one that hasn't been redone yet! 👍
Nice job!
Brilliant love it so much work but worth it
Two thumbs up on the Mothers. I did the aluminum wheels on my 79 Vette a few years back and found out thru trial & error about the Mothers. Now I only touch up my wheels 'bout once a year with the Mothers.
Good job!
came out great !
Very nice polished wheels.
We had 4 of these on our 1974 nova. We cleaned them up with steel wool and just shot them gloss white. Looked real good too. I don't think they even had buffing balls like that back then.
Nice Job!
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
Turned out amazing, great job! Hopefully the tire shop doesn’t pound on wheel weights on the finished side 😁💯
They look great to me!
Great job 👍
lookin good!
i always love that style American Mags