Shiney Rim?? HELP

[FOREST GREEN]

Evening.................

 I've got a set of VR6 BBS's that I want to refurb, but I'm looking for a tad of advice please 

I'm painting them metallic black, I know how to do all that, no probs there, but I thought I might try a 'Polished Rim' 

Obviously the wheels are standard silver at the moment, with no kerbing, filling to worry about. So, when I've rubbed them all down, I want the polished (mirror like) lip, which I will mask off before painting.

How do I get the mirror finish on the lip?
Do I spray the entire wheel with undercoat, colour, lacquer & then rub the lip back?
Do I need to lacquer the polished lip when/if I get it to that stage?

Any help greatly appreciated. 

PS if anyone has a Dragon Green mk3 with this type of wheel and finish, could you stick a pic up please 

[jeremybarker]

I would have thought the logical way would be to sand back the whole wheel, sand the lip to bare metal finishing with fine 1200-1500. Mask off the lip, paint the coloured area, unmask and then lacquer the whole wheel. If you lacquer the rim before painting and get over spray, bleeding etc it'll make it more difficult to remove. At least once you've un-masked the lip you can give it one last going over before you tac cloth the whole wheel and lacquer it.

[FOREST GREEN]

Sounds like a plan....Cheers for that

So basically, I just keep sanding the Lip/Rim till I hit bare metal, then polish it to a shine, then lacquer the whole wheel up?

[jeremybarker]

Might be worth getting an spare wheel to try the technique on first and see if it gives you the desired effect.

[dweb1989]

Get some polishing mops if you want a really shiney finish. Will get you an awesome finish, i did mine a while back there's a few before and after here...