just great, i'm in the optical business but my eyes must be deceiving me, i haven't really being using the car in the last month or so due to weather, as well as a reflash from hahn, which took time, but i took it out a couple of times, roads are wet, probably with a salt & or sand mixture due to the weather lately, but when it was half decent, go out for a burn, so anyways get the ecm back from reflash, all excited to get it back on the road again, so thought i would give it a nice shampoo job,& couldn't believe it, rims all pitted, it was parked under cover while waiting for ecm, & they are pretty bad (iv'e got the polished aluminum rims) i was told not to go with the polished chrome because of high maintenance, i wash this car quite often but since i wasn't really using it, there it sat, so my question to every one, do these rims need to be washed basically daily? weekly? or what? or is it the fact the car only went out a few times with salt on them, and sat not used? i'm not to impressed right now about it regardless, now i'm thinking of replacing them with only about 5,000 miles on them, but won't replace them with the same type, or, could it be a warranty issue? don't think so
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I would try the dealer first and see what can be done, maybe SD will chime in with some info.

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I really can't tell from your post what the issue is. I have the polished rims and I use Mothers aluminium polish and then coat them with Turtle Wax Ice and they still look fine. I have done this 3 times since I got the car a year ago, I pull the wheels and do them inside and out. Daily driver with 18,000+ mi.

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Luckily, you have the polished aluminum rims. I have chrome rims on my Jeep and once that pits, fugitaboutit! They're ruined! The chrome starts peeling off... they look like crap and there's nothing you can do but throw them out.

The polished aluminum has a clear coat on it. And BTW, they're not polished all that well. True polished aluminum beats chrome for shine. It's just difficult to keep aluminum that way.

Depending on how old your car is, this sounds like a warranty issue. If you get no satisfaction down that road, you can always have them stripped and polished, then recoated. Go to a body shop for that work. The wheels will turn out way better than new.

all the pitting is in the inside rim, not the outside, it looks like hundreds maybe thousands of spots in the metal that can't be removed, but you can feel them, i tried scrapping (ouch) one area but did nothing
isn't that just lovely?

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Sounds like minute pieces of metal, or combination of metal and brake pad material plastered on the rims from the pads and rotors. It might come off with the right type of cleaner. Start with non-abrasive mineral spirits (paint cleaner), and get some advice from a reputable body shop.
If it is from pieces of metal, they are probably imbedded into the clearcoat and would need new clearcoat, after removal.

i went to the dealer to see what they say, & he has never seen this before (hard to believe) but he is going to get a hold of gm to see if it's a warranty thing, so i guess a day or 2 i should know

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I have the chrome rims and I leave my car sitting for 3 or 4 days at a time. I use mothers polish with the power ball.

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how about that, the dealer is going to refinish the rims, not exactly sure what that means, didn't even know you could do that, but that is such a bonus, because i thought that they were going to reject the claim, so it's nice to know fot the future

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I just bought my Solstice with chrome rims about 3 weeks ago. I've been careful to keep salt off of the chrome rims (garage kept, and I wipe them down with a wet rag if anything gets on them). Is it also necessary to wax/polish? I don't want them to start chipping about a week after my warranty expires. And what is the power ball? Did you win the lottery?

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