BBS RS Refurb

[Welfare]

Finally been had some time to really get stuck into refurbishing my set of RS's. What a pain in the ****. Hands ache and I've only just got half a wheel done.

Currently hand sanding the wheels right up to 1500 or so grit and then using a mixture of the dremel and mothers power cone and autosol to get it shining right.

At the moment I am trying to focus on the inside of the spokes. Once that's done I will get the "face" polished with the bench grinder and polishing wheels.

Will be ordering new lips all round once I'm happy with all four faces.

And onto the pictures

When i first took them to work to strip them (perks of having access to a workshop)



All apart



Hitting them with the paint stripper




My home set up, shame i haven't got more room



Starting to get some shine






And a test fit when my adapatec adapters rocked up...



Thoughts and suggestions

Thanks

[h3llk1t3]

Gotta love them RS' - you know I do

What size lips are you going for? Are you using the spacers to clear anything (struts or calipers)? If not, I'm gonna ask you to do the obvious and remove the spacers and get bigger lips instead! No need to waste inset! But I'm sure you knew that so don't get me wrong!

To be fucking honest I wouldn't have the ... resolve to polish these. I'd hand em over for a few bucks to sandblast and that weird polishing service they call "hochglanzverdichten" over here.

You know, this one:

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That should be much easier than reaching all the goddamn corners of the RS' yourself

Anyway, keep going!

[Welfare]

Thanks mate,

Looooove your bbs'

Have to run spacers to covert the stud pattern, as these ones were too cheap to pass up. Still have plenty of room to work with. not sure what size lips just yet, haven't really gone and measured up everything just yet. Would love big lips, but not to fussed really as this will be used as a daily driver.

I did ask one of our local rim polishing shops if they would do them. Was told if its a flat faced rim. Showed them what they were, got told they wont do them as they are too hard.

So took that as a challenge for myself.
No real rush, just a bit here a bit there after work and on the weekends

And where can i buy one of those machines. A mate and I want to get into this as there isn't anyone over here doing it, well in in Perth anyways

[Fetka]

How did you colour centers black ? Want to do the same, just don't know what technique to use.
Suggestions are welcomed, thanks !

[h3llk1t3]

In that case I believe your shop woulda done it by hand as well. They certainly know what a pain it is

In regards to these machines the process they use is directly translated slide grinding. While I was living in Ireland for example I have not encountered a single one of these "rim polishing machines" unlike here in Germany. Occasionally I have seen them being sold outside Germany but I have the feeling they are not as commonly used anywhere else. Maybe someone can correct me on that and has even the exact name for it.

It's basically a barrel on a set of springs with a vibrating engine attached so that small ceramic triangles of different sizes slowly grind every little corner of a wheel. After the ceramic it's small beads made of some sort of fabric that apply the final polish. I imagine, having one of these machines in areas that don't normally utilize them might be an advantage if you wanna get into it. Around here you can get em for around 5k USD.

[mayhem]

Those machines are 27,000 euro´s , so about 35,000 dollar.

Vibro polishing is the correct english term.

The process is mainly done in Germany, Belgium and in Holland.

[Beware]

Get one....I'll ship some centres to you from Brisbane as your first customer!

[Welfare]

BBS RS Refurb

How did you colour centers black ? Want to do the same, just don't know what technique to use.
Suggestions are welcomed, thanks !

Hey mate,

A heap of masking tape and a bit of patience was all it took. Don't think I took a photo of it before i took the tape off.

In that case I believe your shop woulda done it by hand as well. They certainly know what a pain it is



In regards to these machines the process they use is directly translated slide grinding. While I was living in Ireland for example I have not encountered a single one of these "rim polishing machines" unlike here in Germany. Occasionally I have seen them being sold outside Germany but I have the feeling they are not as commonly used anywhere else. Maybe someone can correct me on that and has even the exact name for it.



It's basically a barrel on a set of springs with a vibrating engine attached so that small ceramic triangles of different sizes slowly grind every little corner of a wheel. After the ceramic it's small beads made of some sort of fabric that apply the final polish. I imagine, having one of these machines in areas that don't normally utilize them might be an advantage if you wanna get into it. Around here you can get em for around 5k USD.

Yeah I was watching their videos and had a look over eBay and a few other websites that seem to advertise similar machines. Did find a few that would probably work. Just need to do a bit more research.