Hello Laurence,
I am exploring your site, and discovered this question, and thought I would respond. I wasn’t impressed with my starfish painted wheels, either, and, starting with the spare, succeeded in sanding off all the dull grey/silver paint. I started with a coarse grade of sandpaper, and worked my way to finer and finer grades, ending up at 2000 grit.Application of scratch-remover followed, and finally – polish. Rather like finishing a car body after paint work! The result is I now have a full set of polished aluminum (aluminium) wheels, that look really nice. Each wheel took around six hours of work. If I knew how to (easily) submit a photo, I would!

Here is the photo of my wheel Laurence

You will! Just don’t get too aggressive with your choice of the coarser grades of sandpaper.Any scratches that you create will have to be removed eventually! I suppose Nitromors is a paint remover? Not familiar with the name. As an aside, the winters in western Pennsylvania are severe enough that my car hibernates for several months- long enough to spend time on projects like this! The wind sweeps down from Canada, crosses Lake Erie, picking up moisture as it does, and then deposits that moisture in the form of snow in my general area. Local weather forecasters call it “The Snow Belt.”
Dave.

Nice job on your Starfish Alloys David, 6 hours per wheel is good time well spent:-)

Thank you, Mark! I suppose being retired does have SOME advantages!