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does brasso damage aluminum wheels?

can you use the Brasso Aluminum cleaner on aluminum wheels? i have a set of mickey thompson classic II wheels and i want to polish them up. they have water spots that are almost impossible to clean. how can i shine them up to make them almost like chrome wheels? i heard brasso works great but then i heard it damages the wheels?

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hello ,it says aluminum cleaner !!!
Brasso On Aluminum
There are many products you can use to polish aluminum wheels, Brasso aluminum polish being one of them. It will take a TON of elbow grease and patience to get a really shiny surface, and it will only become chrome-like if the wheels' surface is already perfectly smooth. The commercially available polishes should remove water spots and will tidy up a surface that is polished already, but will not make a non-polished aluminum surface chrome-like. I've used Mother's and Auto-sol, both with good success. Again, it takes a LOT of work. Follow the instructions carefully. Once you get that shiny surface, it will take periodic regular polishing to maintain. If you are starting with a much more weathered surface, you'll need to go the sanding, wet-sanding, rubbing compound, jeweller's rouge, then metal polish route. A ton of work, but doable. Look up how to polish aluminum on Google.

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