You have just finished our article guiding you on how to choose a motorbike and you have to make it more beautiful by wondering how to polish a motorcycle rim? We have the solution for you.
Indeed, polishing a motorcycle rim is something that many bikers have in mind knowing that if you do it yourself, it does not particularly cost a lot of money, usually around fifty euros.
In addition, the result is more than satisfactory and you can say that you did it yourself to fart a little in front of your friends next time. This is why we will precisely describe all the steps to follow.
It is however quite important to understand that this takes quite a long time to do and that it will not be necessary to hurry to have a good result. If you do not feel capable of it, it is always possible to ask your mechanic to do this operation.
Finally, if you want to continue the momentum of polishing your motorcycle, we advise you to take a look at our article telling you how to polish a motorcycle crankcase. You will see that the technique is quite different.
To polish a motorcycle rim, it is important to strip it well!
Despite the fact that you are all set to take the plunge and polish your motorcycle rim, it is important to prepare the rim well before you begin the bulk of this polishing. Preparation is often seen as a chore.
It is true that it is not the most exciting, however, if you neglect this step it will be felt strongly for the rest and you may have taken a long time to polish a motorcycle rim to a disappointing result.
The first thing to do will therefore be to strip your rim well. If it is painted, you will need to first make sure you have removed the paint before you begin, even stripping.
Then, you just need to thoroughly clean your rim so that it is perfect for polishing. To do this, apply a mixture of water and dishwashing liquid on it to completely degrease it.
Protect the areas you don't want to polish
So now that your rim is ready, there is one very last step before you can start polishing, protecting areas that are not affected by this step.
Indeed, polishing a motorcycle rim requires the use of products that are corrosive to say the least. However, you do not want them to go anywhere other than the rim itself at the risk of damaging it.
To avoid this, it will therefore be essential to determine which areas you are going to expose to these products. For this, we advise you to put painter's tape on the areas not concerned by the following steps.
Polish a motorcycle rim easily
That's it, we can start polishing a word rim from this step! We told you, you have to be patient in order to have a good result at the end and you have surely done the most troublesome now.
The first step here will be to put on gloves, whether they are oven mitts or doctors' gloves. The goal will be to protect your hands from the corrosive products that you will be handling.
Then apply a thin layer of stripper all over your rim. The technical point is that it will take a thick enough coat for this stripper to be effective, but you should not apply too much anyway!
Also avoid as much as possible to put this stripper on the area that you have protected with the painter's tape. Indeed, the protection of this one has certain limits and if you put too much the stripper on it, you risk having problems.
Leave this stripper to act for about 20 minutes in an area in the shade and out of the sun to avoid any reaction then remove it with a tool that will not risk scratching your motorcycle rim!
Then pass a little bit of steel wool to finish the job and then you just have to clean everything with paper towel to see the final result and thus finish polishing a motorcycle rim.
Polishing finishes
However, you have not finished polishing a motorcycle rim and there are still two very important steps that should not be underestimated either, the finishes and especially the maintenance of it in the future.
As for the finishes first, run a little acetone on the rims that you have just polished. Then dry it well and apply a layer of belgom to finish the job.
If ever your rim should become clogged afterwards, to catch it up, you can follow the video tutorial that we offer you and who explains how to remove fat in just a few steps.
