You forget how painful it is and until you want to do it again.

It just took me 6.5 hours to strip and polish one wheel and get halfway through stripping the second.

The GM clear coat is garbage and needed to come off. There was some oxidizing so I did 800, 1000, 1500, 2000 and then when at it with a DA polisher. Still want to run another coat on top but I don't have any more polishing pads kicking around so that will have to wait. The castings are no where near as nice at the CCWs which polish up like a mirror.




after stripped and 2000 grit


after da





back out to hell I go to finish the next one