Cleaning Chrome and Stainless

Started by volksrodAiden, December 09, 2013, 08:56:14 PM

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volksrodAiden

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Now then guys hope all is well. Went and looked at (and paid) for the fugitive on Sunday. Couple of things i noticed though that wasnt on the pics. The 1year old chrome wheels. As its been left outside under a cover instead of a garage they have started getting a little surface rust. Nothing major you can see the starts. Also so has all the stainless steel and theres loads of it.
So from you profesionals who have loads of chrome and stainless what do you suggest i can use to clean and stop any further rusting ect. It will from now on be in my garage (after thursday when it gets picked up) Just want to get it right and cleaned up so it doesnt get any worse and i can get it back into a good condition. Any names of products and methods would be really good.

thanks guys

Aiden

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Autosol and elbow grease work wonders. However chrome is sh.. and once it's rusty there is little you can do.....

Stainless you should be able to polish up again.

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Hi. Aiden, am only on iPad right now so can't help proper but we have discussed this in detail months and months ago, so if you do a search I think it should show up. If not I will dig it out later and we should see about putting a sticky on it.

Peeks polish is great though.  ;-)up

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yeah if you could please Andy. May be a section with faq and tips? Or if there is one im totally crap and cant find anything haha

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Sorry forgot about this one...

I did remember GateCrasha did some great stuff on polishing:

http://www.beachbuggy.info/index.php/topic,1285.msg12391.html#msg12391

Also Plastics (lights etc)
http://www.beachbuggy.info/index.php/topic,1270.msg12345.html#msg12345

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Thanks Andy. Im on with this today. My friend works with stainless fabrication so has brought me a few bits round to get me going.

thanks again bud.

aiden

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