Polishing chrome or other shiny parts?

[Evan Bottcher]

Hi folks,

Anybody got any thoughts on polishing technique for cleaning up chromed or stainless parts on the Alfa?

e.g. tarnished heart grilles, taillight surrounds, window gutter trim?

Any online resources anyone can recommend?  Polishes?  What about a dremel type of tool with polishing burrs?

For larger parts like bumpers, is it better to send parts out to be polished?

thanks!

Evan.

[lombardi]

Hi Evan,  what always works well with little effort is the classic german AUTOGLYM

metal polish,been using it for years,comes in a toothpaste like tube,available at any auto store. Best applied and removed by a microfibre cloth,if this doent work,might have to re-chrome. CIAO and happy polishing

[pep105]

You can try a metal polish like Autosol or Mothers on the stainless parts (window gutters and bumpers).
I've tried Autosol on my Junior front bar and it brought up a nice shine however to get a nice finish you  would need to send the bumpers away to get polished.

The grille heart is chromed as far as I know so it would need to be re plated as you can't polish it.

Happy New Year to all

Cheers
Pep    

[agent86]

A really good chrome polish with half the work of autosol is Purple Polish. It is a purple liquid that goes on easy and comes off with a microfibre and is very easy to use. A thousand truckies cant be wrong. Stainless steel is a different matter and best left to the pro's.
Cheers Agent86

[lombardi]

Yes iwas going to say AUTOSOL as well,but it tends to scratch as well,but is an excellent product.

[kartone]

I agree, a trucker demoed Blue Magic on my steel bumpered GTV, incredible. Just wondered on the long term effect after repeated applications.