hitting up my ugly rims with tal strip and sand paper , some adivce needed

eghhh so finally i got my rear tailshaft seal done, thank you firestone. my back seats got a lil wet from the rain but they dry, i shampooed my carpets today/vaccumed, need to tackle my nasty gold and silver iroc rims for when she comes on the road next weekend, got some various sand paper sizes, and tal strip, plan on picking up some masking tape tommrow then maybe putting tal strip on the silver part to get off the clear coat flakes, then maybe sand that silver a little and hit it with mothers, wax and polish, and ideas about the gold portion thats paint just polish that really hard i guess, let me know before i tackle this thing tommrow.

eggghhh on second thought maybe ill just use a heavy hand with the polish and forget about the tal strip and sandpaper, dont want to screw up decient rims, for the summer ya know

If the rim are dull, maybe webbed and cracked looking but not discolored, you can clean them really good with Brillo/SOS pad and shoot them with clear coat, get a really nice look with this, near factory new. I like the Duplicolor or Truck and Van Clear top coat for this. Get the wheels in the sun, nice and warm, get a couple good coats on them.

so i started today, needless to say its been 2 hours and i havent even gotten the clear coat of the aluminium portions yet, i still need to polosih and wax the aluminium then get the painted portions done, and this is the first wheel. what a pain in the ass i should just bought new rims.

if you had the money you woulda bought new rims in the first place. but trust me, when your done and their looking all nice you'll be proud of yourself and happy that you saved a few bucks. i know i am whenever i do something like that!

screw it i gave up, ill just look for new ones to buy, they still look like **** even after i sanded off the clear coat.

Get aircraft stripper to get teh clear off. Spray it on and rince it off. A couple coats may be neccessary but it is a lot easier than sanding it off.

where talking about the clear coat on the silver part, my paint on the rim is ok, just the clear coat on the aluminium part is screwed up, what do i do after i get the clear coat off the aluminium

the 5 stars shouldnt be hard to strip, just sand them off or strip them. then clean them up good with soap and water. then spray them. i refinished my rims in about an hour each.
my stock berlinetta rims were about 8 hours just to strip and sand because of all the spokes. still working on them. im thiknig about getting the driver side 2 professionally refinished (from worse looking 2 rims), and the passenger side ill have done myself. save me $

the clear coat is a b*tch to get off. i polished my friends 98 firebird rims. the stuff u wanna get is any normal stripper *can get at walmart for $5-8. but then again, that stuff is more for getting the paint to come off. i forget the name of the stuff i used to get the clear coat off. i have some left at home *im at work now* but when i get hoem ill post the name of the product. u can get it at any autozone or checker. cost about the same price. plus this stuff is SO good. u let it sit on the rim for 30-40 mins *u put a good amoutn on btw* and when u coem out, u use a thing of steel wool and have soem thick ass rubber gloves on *cause when u get it on ur skin it burns like no other* but it comes off SO easy. i polished my R6's rims, and started and the TPI on my car. just DONT use a damn dremal.

Couldn't you jet get them media blasted to take it off?
And its supposed to look like **** after the clearcoat is gone, you have to finish polishing them :)