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prepared
04-20-2010, 03:53 PM
Have the original rims for the CSXT. The white is in good shape, but of course the clear is shot and there is some curb rash on the lip.

I have nothing but time sitting in the living room all evening, every evening.

What process could I use - preferably without power tools - to get these looking "decent" again?

54inches
04-20-2010, 09:44 PM
If you have flaking of the clear then I would have them soda blasted and repainted and cleared. What part of the states are you in; I am in Houston and I own a soda blaster.

1st wheel is free, the next three will cost you a 6 pack of Lone Star beer. :)

badandy
04-20-2010, 11:13 PM
Funny you mention it. I was thinking about this just the other day. I have two full sets. I wonder what a wheel reconditioning place would charge?

BadAssPerformance
04-21-2010, 12:24 AM
Somewhere I have a full article that Steve Kalmes wrote for the SDAC-Chicago newsletter that shows how he got his to look absolutely perfect. ...yes the wheels that are on the $21K Palm Beach auction car. I'll have to dig it up.

spirit1991
04-21-2010, 07:05 AM
I' has the wheels redone on my spirit and the look brand new. that was 2 yrs ago and they are holding up great. each rim was $150 but worth every cent. Really makes the car.

prepared
04-21-2010, 10:20 AM
If you have flaking of the clear then I would have them soda blasted and repainted and cleared. What part of the states are you in; I am in Houston and I own a soda blaster.

1st wheel is free, the next three will cost you a 6 pack of Lone Star beer. :)

I'm way up north in Iowa, but if I were closer.....


Somewhere I have a full article that Steve Kalmes wrote for the SDAC-Chicago newsletter that shows how he got his to look absolutely perfect. ...yes the wheels that are on the $21K Palm Beach auction car. I'll have to dig it up.

That would be awesome if you could find it!!


I' has the wheels redone on my spirit and the look brand new. that was 2 yrs ago and they are holding up great. each rim was $150 but worth every cent. Really makes the car.


I have plenty of time, but not plenty of money. I'd love to just send them out, but that isn't going to happen.

shelbycsx4me
06-23-2010, 12:08 PM
http://web.archive.org/web/20010624115324/www.pinnaclecda.com/CarCare/shelby_dodge_car_care_detail.htm

If this link don't show
Try hacking around here
_http://web.archive.org/_ (http://web.archive.org/)
look for the site ..........
_http://www.pinnaclecda.com/_ (http://www.pinnaclecda.com/)
then try finding car care.
year 2001 or 2002....

The CSX-T Rims I polished 8 years ago, without clear coat,
just takes some Mother's Mag Wheel Polish to keep them bright.
I don't drive it everyday and it's stored over the winter. If you're
on the road a little or a lot, you'd have to maybe touch them every other
month
depending on rain or gravel or salt. I'd polish them every 3rd car wash
if I was out and about.


_http://www.sdac.org/sdac_photo_pages/car_show_16/pages/160511a.html_
(http://www.sdac.org/sdac_photo_pages/car_show_16/pages/160511a.html)

Someone at SDAC16 asked I had the rims Chromed.
Nope, they just look that way :o)

Steve and Dee Kalmes
Springville, Iowa
89 CSX-VNT #339 (recaro's)
89 CSX-VNT #467 (slot car)
87 CSX #311 (go car)

firehawk618
06-23-2010, 08:34 PM
I'm currently having the wheels from my 01 540i sandblasted, powdercoated and clear coated. I'm looking at $40 per wheel for blasting, and $50 per wheel for coating / clear.

Wheels had paint comming off in huge chunks. Made the whole car look like absolute $hit.

Polygon
06-25-2010, 04:58 PM
You're not going to get rid of curb rash without special tools. You're going to have to take it somewhere to get that fixed.

ljbprrfmof
06-25-2010, 06:36 PM
Somewhere I have a full article that Steve Kalmes wrote for the SDAC-Chicago newsletter that shows how he got his to look absolutely perfect. ...yes the wheels that are on the $21K Palm Beach auction car. I'll have to dig it up.

$21K auction price? On a CSX-T? I needs the details.

88CSX-T
09-01-2010, 01:56 PM
There's a place here in Denver Colorado that strips, lathes, balances, trues, fixes missing chunks, and refinishes wheels. I believe they're about $125 per wheel, but they come out looking like new.

88CSX-T
09-01-2010, 01:58 PM
By the way, I just bought the 3 beat up CSX-t wheels off of ebay today. The owner got them off a stripped csx-t in a junkyard in Denver, then trucked them up to Wyoming a few years ago. Coincidentally, he's delivering them today back to me in Denver.

shelbycsx4me
03-27-2011, 11:05 PM
just checked and this link works ... for now

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20010624115324/http://www.pinnaclecda.com/CarCare/shelby_dodge_car_care_detail.htm