The trim around the windows and the wheelwell trim is either aluminum or stainless steel. I've been sanding and polishing mine for the past month and I'm still not quite sure what it is.
But I'm pretty sure it's aluminum because on the roofrail trim ( and many other trim pieces ) you will notice it comes to a peak in the center of the trim. Mine now has a less sharp peak, it's got a rounded edge. I don't think you can do that to stainless with wet-sand paper.
Your's may have been plated at some point in time.
If it's not plated, and if it's really dull and stained, you start wet-sanding with a 400 grit sandpaper and work up to a 2000 grit. And then polish till your blue in the face.
I don't know if I'm doing it right, or if it should take this long but the results are very nice, has a mirror finish to it.
I took all the trim in the house. I wet-sand it in the bathtub, ( hint, if you do this, lay a big trash bag in the tub to prevent scratching it and to keep all the sanding crud off the tub, less clean-up time. I got a cool GF, me and Lu have been doing this whole resto together ) And then we've been polishing while watching tv and such.