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View Poll Results: what to polish??
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just polish the lip and leave it!!
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polish the whole wheel
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you should not have polished any of it
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whatever floats your boat!!!
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04-02-2003, 02:02 AM
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twisted beyond reason
Join Date: Oct 2002
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To polish or not to polish???
I bought a set of borbet type A wheels for my e30. I am currently getting the lip polished. I was wonder what you guys thought of the entire wheel polished instead of painted or powered coated.....
leave it to a poll. sorry I don't have any other pics of the wheels.
Jase
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04-02-2003, 02:51 AM
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3rd Gear Member
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don't do any thing. their sick as is
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04-02-2003, 03:07 AM
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...Delt Smash
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Re: To polish or not to polish???
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Originally posted by Jase
I bought a set of borbet type A wheels for my e30. I am currently getting the lip polished. I was wonder what you guys thought of the entire wheel polished instead of painted or powered coated.....
leave it to a poll. sorry I don't have any other pics of the wheels.
Jase
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Umm... where did you get those? what size are they? how much $$ did they cost you?
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04-02-2003, 04:44 AM
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moderationistismingly
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bradford, ON
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It looks nice the way it is, but a polished lip would look amazing, just be ready for the work of keeping them clean and shiny. Any sort of tiny scratch will show once you try hand polishing afterwards. Also, with such a large lip, it being polished may attract some unwanted attention....
IMO, polishing the whole wheel would be a bit much, too bling blingy.
Maybe you should just run them the way they are for a while and think about it.
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04-02-2003, 05:53 AM
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6th Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Toronto
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WOW jase!
Thoes are awsome!!! They would look great polished but remember the work involved in maintaining them. I can't wait to get my deep dish, I hope they are as deep as thoes!
girls love when you go "deep"
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04-02-2003, 03:14 PM
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twisted beyond reason
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chatham
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they are 16x7.5 and they cost me ....lets just say under 700. the lip was damaged and I had to repair it. So I had a place polish the lip. They problem remains that the wheel has some scratches on the star. I was thinking of repainting them or powdercoating them. The place polishing them gave me a good deal if I wanted to polish the whole wheel so I thought I would get some opinions.
Thanks
Jase
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04-02-2003, 04:51 PM
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6th Gear Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Toronto
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Car: E30 318is Arctic Rot
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jase.. is that your M-tech kit i see?
Can you post some pictures if you have them. I wanna see what deep dish 16 look like with the body kit on there.
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04-02-2003, 07:23 PM
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twisted beyond reason
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chatham
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I don't pick up my mtech kit until next week. and the wheels are not done yet. So sorry no pics. Plus I need to lower the car before I take any photos.And put the interior back in
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04-03-2003, 02:03 PM
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Gets Blown Daily
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They look very nice as is, but would also look very nice polished.
I say keep em the way they are, and whenever the time comes to refinish them, you can get the polished.
no sense in doing it while theyr'e still beautiful! =)
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