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Originally Posted by allenga
Why not clear? Thanks!
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did you read my posts about the clear? i prefer no clear because it looks terrible with heavy orange peel, is hard to touch up when it chips, & eventually will fail like so many factory wheel you see out there today.
the factory clear on these wheels was a very thin lacquer based clear you could barely tell was there, nothing like the thick powder clear wheel companies use today for these restorations.
i too just wipe my wheels off with a towel & have shiny metal... they do not require polishing the spokes regularly or hours with mothers polishing them. if you look at the pics i posted the wheels look exactly the same as they do in the pics 10 years later... & i drive my cars a lot. granted, not daily drivers in rain or winter with road salts etc. the car is in storage for the winter but i will post a pic in a month or so to show what they look like now.
fact is that non cleared snowflakes will stay shiny if you keep them clean & use a light coat of was every year or 2 & avoids the other problems mentioned above with thick powder coat clear.