Wheel cleaner (12 years since wheels were cleaned!!)
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Picking up a car for the wife, and the previous owner has never cleaned the wheels! (well, the faces have been cleaned by the rotary drive through car wash). Mechanically its been looked after, but not the wheels.
So as you can imagine the alloys are not just black inside the spokes, but almost a yellow where the dust has been for years.
I need the strongest wheel cleaner to get this stuff off-any pointers?
So as you can imagine the alloys are not just black inside the spokes, but almost a yellow where the dust has been for years.
I need the strongest wheel cleaner to get this stuff off-any pointers?
I used some acid based 'Wonderwheels' that I'd had for years, but only on the backs of some 7 year old wheels that probably hadn't been cleaned since new. It did work well, though in this case I had to be careful not to get it on the front which were reasonably clean apart from in the corners.
Probably going to have to do similar on my recently bought 2014 Alfa Mito, though they are dark 'graphite' coloured wheels, so probably not so noticeable (again the fronts are decent), so thanks for the more up to date links above. I use some Bilt Hamber products for rust proofing and waxing, so will look at getting their wheel cleaner for this job.
For general maintenance cleaning I use BilBerry wheel cleaner which seems to work well even if quite diluted, but that's after the wheels have had a good initial clean to start with.
Front wheel before:
After acid based wheel cleaner and other general degreasing, tar removal and some clay bar too, then sealed with some wheel wax I had:
Probably going to have to do similar on my recently bought 2014 Alfa Mito, though they are dark 'graphite' coloured wheels, so probably not so noticeable (again the fronts are decent), so thanks for the more up to date links above. I use some Bilt Hamber products for rust proofing and waxing, so will look at getting their wheel cleaner for this job.
For general maintenance cleaning I use BilBerry wheel cleaner which seems to work well even if quite diluted, but that's after the wheels have had a good initial clean to start with.
Front wheel before:
After acid based wheel cleaner and other general degreasing, tar removal and some clay bar too, then sealed with some wheel wax I had:
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