The number one complaint about billet aluminum wheels is the elbow grease involved to keep them looking polished. Polishing wheels is the equivalent of cleaning the kitchen-it has to be done but no one enjoys it. For this wheel and tire issue, we wanted to show you how your acid-stained, rock-chipped, dull-looking wheels can look brand new again in a day's time, and for less money than you may think.
After a recent call to Mag Masters in Santa Ana, California, an appointment was made for your favorite truck magazine to sit ringside as the crew at Mag Masters polished a set of Budnik M5 billet wheels. These wheels were probably just like yours; they had been well taken care of and hand-polished several times. But, they still didn't have the exquisite luster they did right out of the box.
The wheels real undoing was when a wheel cleaner was used that said it was aluminum safe, but actually contained harmful cleaning acid that ate into the billet hoops. No kind of hand polishing can fix that problem, but our pros at Mag Masters had over 25 years of experience taking the dirtiest of wheels and making them look new again. Read on as Roberto, from Mag Masters, took us through the necessary steps to transform our billets into beauties.