Ah, you watched my videos on aluminium alloy rims refinishing.


It took some time, but they do polish up nice!

 

Not especially, I just have been doing this for 50 some years. But if your center caps have the gold -tone on the bow-ties, that polishes off easily & looks cleaner imo. But your rims do look good.

 

Actually, it turns out those rims are the winter rims on Oldblue:

 

Very nice, yea, I’d clean those up for summer!

 

fastsuv- What brand are those rims in the pic ? The center cap does not look like Torq-Thrusts

They look sharp.

 

The car is not here now for me to look at it, but I think it says American Racing on the center cap.

I got them on a 2006 HHR I bought back about 10 years ago.

They look like these on the American Racing web site (but AR no longer shows these in 16" wheels like mine are):




Steve

 

I would love to have a nice set of wheels for my HHR. But I can't justify spending the money on wheels when other things need to be taken care of first.

 

Steve- Thanks, yep that center cap looks correct to yours. A.R.E. I'll have to look there. Sure wish we could have that deep offset on ours.

Ronnie- Sounds like you have your priorities in order. Help, I do not.. LOL

 

The Bullet style ARE rims were popular a few years back

 

That's about all one can get these days. Too bad ya can't get then in polished finish. But that costs way more.