im looking at the american racing "baja" and it only is in polished now, they discontinued the chrome. will the polished look good even over time? shop guy told me chrome is alot less maintenance. so any input is cool, or if u have polished wheels let m know what u do to maintain them and how they look. thanks

 

I would much rather have chrome over polished any day. It takes alot of work to keep up polished wheels.

 

what do i use for the polished wheels to keep them nice. i mean the most that they will get on them is dust from where i work. i keep my truck clean. im sure guys on here have polished wheels.

 

You'll also get brake dust, road grime, etc.

You'll need a good metal polish, I've had great results with Turtle Wax brand. I'd try one of those Powerballs that goes in a drill.

Try searching the detail forum for a good metal polish.

 

For a DD I would not recommend polished. I have them on my Cobra and they look great...but I do not drive it every day. Polished wheels will water spot easily. Cleaning and polishing takes a lot of effort.

 

chrome looks nice, but its usually more expensive. so it just depends on how much you wanna pay and what you want. Mothers Mag and Aluminum polish worked pretty good on my wheels and my mom's mustangs wheels, which were covered in break dust and grime.

 

Yep, you have to keep polished wheels clean and polish them regularly.

 

Before using them take them to a good powdercoater and get them clear coated. They will look like chrome wheels. Make sure you don't get them anodized clear, they will not look polished after that.

 

I have polished wheel , use the powerball on them every so often. And some hand cleaning in between. I like the way they look. Thats My 2 cents

 

sweet. most wheels for my bolt pattern are discontinued or not avail in chrome. can i get that mothersball thing at any auto parts store basically? i see lots of trucks with polished

 

yeah. or walmart, it'll be cheaper there haha

 

If you live where you get snow in the winter and they salt the roads... Don't even consider chrome (unless you're going to take them off).

There's definately nothing wrong with polished wheels. They just take a little more effort to really look nice and shine. I've seen polished wheels that were neglected for 2 years (through 2 midwest winters) and after a some steel wool, WD40, polish, wax, and some elbow grease they looked brand new.

 

i had one set of polished wheels, never again...way to much work compared to chrome.

 

i live in new jersey so once in awhile well have salt on the roads. i was planning on having my nice polished wheels on my 285s and then my stock wheels and 265s sitting in garage and ill switch them for winter months if the salt will mess up the polished. thanks for the replies though. just there are so many wheels out there that are polished, if they are that bad why do people still buy them? right?

 

if you get the polished rims you won't have to worry about taking them off every winter. and unless the rims you want have alota nooks and crannies, cleaning them and keeping them polished shouldnt be a huge deal. just do it every time you wash your truck. and like mudterrain said, if you get chrome you'll have to worry about rust since you live up north, and that seems like a much bigger problem than havin to use a little bit of elbow greese every know and then