I recently bent a rim on my car and had it sent out to repair. Well they are two piece wheels with a lip that i am 100% sure is anodized. Well to repair it they had to strip that anodized surface off of the lip and had no way to restore it. Well after i got it back i decided i liked the raw polished look better. The anodized surface seemed to scratch super easy. So i was thinking about stripping the anodized surface off the other 3 rims. I was reading about LYE a chemical used to strip this off. I don't really need to polish it all that much, just need to get the anodized surface off and then use something to shine it and then protect/seal it. Would LYE work, will it eat paint away if i accidentally get it on the spokes, They are powdercoated, or will it be beast to take the spokes out of the barrel of the rim? I don't know much about polishing and thought you guys would probably know how to do this. I am open to all ideas. Here is a pic of one of the wheels that still has the anodized lips.
