How to wash alloy wheel?

elan7e

What Tools and solution (liquid) I have to prepare?

pkphilip

Chrome or standard alloy finish?

I use degreaser like Simple Green, mix 1:1, spray on, wait 1 min, use a soft cloth and wipe clean with my hands. If the patterns are complicated like the BBS ones, use old soft toothbrush. Then rinse clean.

Philip

Catpiano

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Lik

My lazy a$$ method is to just use the regular car wash detergent with sponge and cloth. To make life easy, however, I always wax my wheels after each wash. The brake dust comes off a lot easier next time you wash those wheels if you do this.

-Lik

Catpiano

I think Elan is a TW girl .. so ..  Lik gor, you can wash wheels for her!

elan7e

回復 4# Lik

Wax? The wax for the vehicle body? I can imagine how to wax the side of the wheel facing you, how about the side away from you? It is impossible to reach.

elan7e

回復 5# Catpiano

How about 中佬?

Lik

回復  Lik

Wax? The wax for the vehicle body? I can imagine how to wax the side of the wheel facing ...
elan7e 發表於 2011-9-13 20:56

Yup, I just use the same wax that I use on the painted body panels. Most (if not all) alloy wheels are painted, so the car wax would work just as well on the wheels as they do on the body.

If your wheels are mounted on the car, you can't even wash the back side anyway, so why and how would you wax them? If you have the wheels unmounted, then by all means, go ahead and wax whatever you want. But a lot of factory alloy wheels don't paint the back side of the wheels, so i don't bother with that area. Whenever I swap wheels (summer <--> winter), I do a more thorough cleaning, washing and waxing the inside and the cylindrical parts of the wheel as well.

-Lik

pkphilip

If it's standard OE alloy, I wouldn't bother so much. Also, OE pads don't throw out excessive brake dusts. Also, after a few years and you get scratches on the rims, I didn't bother so much about waxing, just getting the dusts off.

Oh.. ceramic brake pads don't have that much brake dusts! They work better than OE, and last very long time.

Philip

elan7e

回復 2# pkphilip

Philip,

can I use simple clean to wash the car body ?