I'm in the middle of polishing my wheels and center caps up right now. So far the wheel looks great. Spent an hour wet sanding it with 2000 grit paper and now I just need to take a buffing compound and buff all the swirl marks out. Anways. I'm ready to start on the chrome center caps. How would I go about getting the rust out without damaging the chrome on it? It looks like just surface rust. Should I just wet sand it with the 2000 grit and then polish it back up or what? Thanks for all the help yall. No way I could have done this without yall.

 

I use 0000 steel wool on my chrome bumpers and it works great. Bumpers are steel and if your center caps are the same it should work. If they are plastic, I'm not sure I would try it.

 

They are steel as far as I know. If not then they are aluminum. Thanks for the help.

 

I use this stuff called "clean cut". its a polishing compound and will clean rust off chrome easy. It comes in gallon jugs and u can get it at most paint or accessory shops. If u think u dont need the whole gallon, wait till u use it
carty

 

Does it polish aluminum up real good also?

 

If they were aluminum, there wouldn't be any rust on them.


phox

 

Hush phox.

 

yea itll polish aluminum up pretty good
carty

 

Cool.

 

ill take a pic of the bottle and pm it to sometime here in a couple days

 

I bought that Flitz stuff off the TV and it works great. In fact I bought more. Talking about easy to take off rust. I had my stacks looking new in about 10 minutes and not a sctatch on them. It even took off 3 years of break dust like nothing I have used before.
DM01

 

I believe a Coke and some aluminum foil will do the job.

 

Coke and alum foil?

 

What do I use as a lubricant for the steel wool or do I just polish the chrome with it straight?

 

ketchup.
No this is not a joke.