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[HarrysMini]

I've bought an Astrali steering wheel that's not in great condition, I want to polish up the spokes to a mirror finish and get the leather/vinyl back to good condition.

 

Are there any products people can recommend? 

This is how it currently looks 

 

I've tried using my polishing kit on it, but that's too coarse and is just putting scratches into it.

[Covert]

Looks to be chromed steel from the pics ?
I may be mistaken though

[Rocket.]

I would hand polish it with autosol see if that makes any diffrence

[HarrysMini]

It may well be chromed, how do you tell?

 

I need to get some Autosol to do my wheels, so I'll try that. 

 

Cheers

[Covert]

Just from looking at it, plus the top pic there is a tiny bit of rust around the left mounting hole, which leads me to believe its steel, you could get it re chromed

[HarrysMini]

Well I'll give it a going over with Autosol, see if that helps any.

 

Any suggestions as to what to do about the vinyl? I've used Dubbin which helped it a bit, but are there any products that people know works?

[Alex_B]

Its fine putting scratches into it, I would carry on with that polishing kit, and when you have gone over the whole thing you will need a finer polishing compound, and work your way up to remove all scratches. 

Polishing is just putting scratches into something, the finer the polish the smaller the scratches if that makes sense 

But Autosol would be where I would go I recon, see how it looks after that, toothpaste may also work (sensitive stuff as thats finer) 

[HarrysMini]

Its fine putting scratches into it, I would carry on with that polishing kit, and when you have gone over the whole thing you will need a finer polishing compound, and work your way up to remove all scratches. 

Polishing is just putting scratches into something, the finer the polish the smaller the scratches if that makes sense 

But Autosol would be where I would go I recon, see how it looks after that, toothpaste may also work (sensitive stuff as thats finer) 

That's what I thought, but the above pics are after I used the finest compound. Looks like I need to go even finer. 

[Rocket.]

You could also try Simichrome polish its even better than Autosol buts its quite pricey

[ANON]

i'd start off with 800 and see how flat it goes and take it from there.

[Minimoke8394]

Yup. Go from 800 to say 2500. Had polished lips on a previous car and that method with Autosol afterwards got them like a mirror.