how to make dog dish hubcaps shine

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Maybe the wrong place to post, but I'm sure some of you have done this. The caps look great, but they have sit on the car forever. They are not dented at all, just dull. What should I use and what process to make them look good? If you know of a product to start with let me know. I have an extra one I tried some wheel cleaner and polish, but it didn't really do any good. Hopefully when I'm finished I will run these with Chrome trim rings. That seems to be what came on the car as far as I can tell.
As always thanks for your help.
 
This kinda depends on which Dog Dish Hubcaps you are trying to shine up.

Stainless or Aluminum to start with.....
Redlines or any Painted details?
Got a pic of one?

Later,
Bruce B.
 
I think there stainless, hadn't really thought about that. I'll post a pic later. They do have paint on them.
thanks
 
Depends on what you are trying to polish out .... and how bad caps look ...
You can polish till the cows come home ..... if the blemish is below the metal cap clear coating process you will be there for a long time ..... I heard to remove this coating .. you can use a spray on oven cleaner .... UNFORTUNATELY it will remove painted surface also .. this will make cap "DULL" SO you will have to polish entire cap to mirror finish and repaint red/black ... Then give it a nice coat of wax periodically to maintain the mirror finish ...
 
I should have read this thread a few days ago... before i bought some aluminum caps. 2 of them are real foggy, and I'm sorry - I'm just not going to strip polish paint seal a set of caps for my driver. I'd wondered why the stainless caps were so much more expensive. Now I know.

on the upside - the caps I bought cleaned up decent and look better than my existing non-redlines.
 
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