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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 12:23 AM
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American Eagle - Eagle Alloy - polished

Theyre starting to look pretty bad....I guess the wash/coat of polish every once in a while tactic didn't work. Theyre rough in some spots.....

What polish/cleaner works on "polished alloy"?
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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 12:28 AM
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When my billets have tough waterspots on them, I hit em with some Mothers Mag/Aluminum polish. I follow that up with the Mothers Incredible Billet Polish and it really brings out a mirror finish.
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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 12:31 AM
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i have this stuff out shine,that i got from a local big rig shop here in m.d (keller truck).this is by far the best **** i have ever seen.my rims went to **** after last winter and this stuff brought them back.thought i was goona need new wheels.i used a buffin pad on the end of a die grinder.
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Old Oct 3, 2004 | 08:51 AM
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Wenol is a decent product too.
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Old Oct 12, 2004 | 04:34 PM
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i use Blue Magic, it works well...
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Old Oct 13, 2004 | 10:09 AM
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I love WENOL. It's about all I use on my rims. Mine get REALLY bad because we have hard water, so whenever I wash them, I get lots of little water spots.

There are two tubes--a red "cleaner" and a blue polish. I go over the wheels w/ the red first, then the blue. I'm going to start going over them w/ a coat of wax shortly and see if that will help keep the hard water off of them.
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Old Oct 13, 2004 | 10:26 AM
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I use Wanol also it works better than any Eagle or Mothers but I want to try Out shine and Xtrem metal polish. I heard great things about both of them.
I got salt on mine from the beach and didn't wash them off that day. I thought the all the rain would was the salt off. Boy big big mistake. Five days later I washed them off and they were pitted. So I had to use 1000 wet sand , 1500 wet, then Wanol on a 6 inch buffing wheel hooked to a drill to bring them back to new. That reminds me I only got two done, got two more to do. that sucks
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 09:33 PM
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outshine is the best.i have tried all of that ****.this **** plan rocks
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 11:57 PM
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I bought some new stuff called " Carnu-b wax" I use it on my stepside billet step plates and it works good.
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