Fuchs clean-up.

Rosh · Post by **Rosh** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:43 pm

Thinking about giving my 'Fuchs' a good clean-up. Not a major refurb, just a good polish, and a lick of paint, and some elbow grease.

Can any one recommend a polish and black paint to use.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:16 pm

Satin Black (original finish) paint from http://www.wurth.co.uk/contact.php

I used Turtle Wax wheel polish for this: http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... ight=fuchs

Since then, I dicovered Autosol, which is better.

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:43 am

Unless the rims have already been polished, or you really want a lod of work, don't polish them, they were originally anodised and should only be cleaned with soapy water, possibly panel wipe or thinners, no cleaning chemicals, which stain the anodising.

Rosh · Post by **Rosh** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:25 pm

Thanks to you both for the advice.

Jamie - those wheels look great!!

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:41 pm

Cheers. Go with what Nick said - never take advice from halfwits! Good luck.

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:46 pm

I have edited muy original post, it should read "they were originally anodised" not as I had typed "they were originally polished"

Tipi_dwl · Post by **Tipi_dwl** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:29 am

Are the originals really painted black? Not anodized to black?

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:38 am

Bertroex · Post by **Bertroex** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:20 pm

Tipi_dwl wrote:Are the originals really painted black? Not anodized to black?

Hang on, I do sense a bit of "lost in translation here".

This is how the process looks like

http://www.early911.co.uk/html/fuchs_rims.html

The black pieces you encounter on your original wheels is wurth satin paint, on top of an anodised base.

HTH,

Bert

Tipi_dwl · Post by **Tipi_dwl** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:43 am

Aluminum can be colored in the same process after anodizing the surface, this way the color sticks very hard. And some early fuchs I've seen/had it like that, but they might have been old copies too.

On some earlies I've seen, the paint level is on the same level on the outer diameter (how to say, inside tyre?) that it was at the spokes. From this I presumed they had been dipped to coloring agent, or paint, not sprayed. I wonder if I've got pic's some where.

pete917 · Post by **pete917** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:14 pm

I decided to go a different route. The original finish was annodised, but I wanted to polish mine. I manged to do it all myself. I saved quite a bit of money but it took me ages.

http://www.myporsche911.co.uk/wheels-and-tyres.html