DIY Wheel Refinishing - BBS Style 5s

[Vodadubz]

I am at the middle of this process... as is my first intent on refurbishing a pair of wheels...
So glad a friend showed up with this thread. Excellent and very helpful!

Mines will be mounted on a VW, so 5x100 re-drill: DONE.





I did not knew how to get the bolts out of the barrel so I ended up TRYING to sand/polish the bolt heads while they were still mounted...
I attached some (many!) 400 or 600 wet sand paper cut offs to the 10mm (?) deep socket and went 1 by 1 on the bolt heads with the impact driver (power tool)... Very tedious process! You can see some progress in below... But this sh*t took me a lot of time and the grit paper shredded to pieces almost in every bolt head, requiring a lot of sand paper pieces, time and patience.




Anyone knows of any other BETTER way to polish the bolt heads???
Cannot afford to buy right now.

[irishguy0224]

Thanks for this! I have some Style 5's en route to me today and will be refinishing them as well. But will be polishing the lips. Awesome write up.

[sacrifice]

This is such a great writeup. Very thorough and its great to see a picture for every step taken.

Definitely sticky worthy.

When going the polished route, after the sanding is complete what kind of polish would you guys recommend using? I'm about to tackle polishing the lips on my style 19s and I want to get as close as possible to mirror finish.

I have found that lowes has a decent selection of buffing wheels and compounds that will allow you to achieve a mirror or very very close to a mirror finish. The compounds they have come in small tubes and have different ratings/grits, just like sandpaper. You can easily get a bench grinder decent enough to polish lips, multiple compounds, and a wheel for each compound for about $75.

[dubbed21]

great write up!!

[BATESY]

Nice write up. style 5's are a pain in the ass to get apart sometimes.

[DerTee30]

When going the polished route, after the sanding is complete what kind of polish would you guys recommend using? I'm about to tackle polishing the lips on my style 19s and I want to get as close as possible to mirror finish.

[ThatEF9kid]

great wheel write up, def shows how putting time into something is much better than rushing

[brandyn]

How much rash were on these? did u get it all out?

does it look like the rash on these would come out?

[twastheglow]

Excellent write up!!! One question...why did you buy the higher grit sand paper? You didn't mention using it.

[Vorsprung]

I'm in the middle of refinishing mine.
You can be pretty liberal with the Jasco on the lips and even the faces- it wont hurt the metal..

As for going wrong, the only big thing I see is over tightening the bolts on re-assembly- I've heard of them snapping.

[Dseyf]

Thank you for the DIY! however is there anything that go extremely wrong? LIke using to much Jasco?

[Johnny5]

came out real good!

[ShadowWabbit]

^ that looks dangerous

[Five S]

Wow! this is cool. What I did with my car is that I change the color from black to marble green and black. It looks great and a lot of people turn their eyes onto to my car. I changed the rim from silver to white to because the color of the car is already black so the white rim is really hyped.

[Donfrondo]

Nice work, same process we did, all takes patience.

Matt wanted the polished look tho...