Hey all,
Anyone else have a badly corroded Alliy body VIN tag and managed to clean and polish it?
How did you do it?
Cheers!
autosol paste & elbow grease (not much required) for the thin tag. i'v not seen a badly corroded one. wonder how coke woiuld work. best not use acid or base strong engine cleaner.
Yeah go the polish. I've used Brasso and found it to work a treat. On a really bad one I bead blasted it and it looks like new.....
Screwed mine to a piece of wood with small screws-then cleaned it on my brass polisher using both the coarse and smooth pads.Then sprayed some clear
on it.Also drilled the body ID plate rivets out and had it cad plated.
[ Edited on 14-11-2005 by nbturbo ]
If you are taking it off the car then just place it in a sloution of baking soda...
(overnight should do it, but keep an eye on it, the stronger the solution the quicker it works)...
It will come up BETTER than brand new and you won't have to drip a single bead of sweat in the process...
Thats the clever answer I was looking for, I knew there must be something like that.
I will give it a go. Will hopefully get some pics of the process.
Many Thanks Daniel.
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Didn't read your question properly-I polished the aluminium 'made in western germany' plate,and had the tin vehicle ID cad plated
So the 'Made in' plate is ally and the other plate is tin?
Cheers