Refinished Style 5's

[offthewall]

after slacking for a month i finally made a big improvement with the whole process.. polished lips.. 132 individually polished bolts.. cleaned inner wheels.. detailed the center weaves.. all thats left is reassembling the wheels / bolts after a couple more rounds of polishing the lips of course :D .. heres a preview..

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i320/Abstrakt12/IMG_0548.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i320/Abstrakt12/IMG_0555.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i320/Abstrakt12/IMG_0549.jpg

keep an eye out in the fs section:devillook

[98M3_4]

Looking good, must of been a lot of work

[IanBMW]

Can I make some suggestions, because I've done it. Whatever polishing you do, or want to do, do it now.......trust me polishing the wheel with the bolts in sucks. Also be careful and do something to protect the bolts from rusting. For some reason my lip with just wax stayed perfect, but my bolts ended up looking a little nasty after a while. For polishing the lip, I would hit it with some sand paper until I got a hazzy mirror, and then go back with the mothers power ball for a good hour to make it insane.

Oh and you suck I can't even use style 5's, and now I want a set just to refinish them.

http://www.pbase.com/ianbmw/image/61070073.jpg

[jszy25]

Oh wow....

Im just got so excited. I cannot wait to get my style 5's. Should be here any day now. Awesome job man.

[randytt]

:drool: style 5's ftw. gonna polish my lips soon... how hard is it to disassemble the rims? do u have to take the tire off?

[supark]

haha - funny that it's the first thing I got rid of on my E39, but they look pretty damn hot I gotta admit on the E36

[98M3_4]

Too bad, from what I gather it's difficult to get new fastening bolts?

[offthewall]

Can I make some suggestions, because I've done it. Whatever polishing you do, or want to do, do it now.......trust me polishing the wheel with the bolts in sucks. Also be careful and do something to protect the bolts from rusting. For some reason my lip with just wax stayed perfect, but my bolts ended up looking a little nasty after a while. For polishing the lip, I would hit it with some sand paper until I got a hazzy mirror, and then go back with the mothers power ball for a good hour to make it insane.

Oh and you suck I can't even use style 5's, and now I want a set just to refinish them.

http://www.pbase.com/ianbmw/image/61070073.jpg

wat do u suggest for the bolts? nice wheels btw.. ill try to get the lips that shiny ;)


:drool: style 5's ftw. gonna polish my lips soon... how hard is it to disassemble the rims? do u have to take the tire off?

yes unless u want to melt your tires when u take off the clearcoat


Too bad, from what I gather it's difficult to get new fastening bolts?

my friend with 18" style 5's used his old ones thats wat i plan on doing

[BMW1023i]

nice job.... looks great... may i ask what process you use to polish the lip? ive been trying to do that to my mpars and cant get anything to work.. i have no clue how to come about this... thanks alot

[civeng]

The 5's look great. I just finsihed stripping the centre pieces- took forever. Did you refinish the centres and if so, where you able to find matching paint? Are you going to clear coat the polished lip?