Use #00 or #000 steel wool, with a medium touch, takes time.
Finish with clear, (flat / semi-gloss), rattle can paint.
The clear will dull the shiny alu after steel wool.
I have parked next to consours cars, hard to tell the difffff.
Kirk Kvam
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Aluminum door finishers
> Jim,
> I have never tried to clean or polish the door trim plates. The trim
> plates
> (door finishers) you are referring to were made of an anodized aluminum.
> I'm
> not so sure that you can get the correct look back by polishing. I have
> used
> an aluminum type of spray paint to get a fresh look on aluminum
> transmission
> cases or intake manifolds. You may want to look into that as an option if
> the
> cleaning / polishing doesn't do the trick.....Tony
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