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I've had these Tramont Cup wheels on my 4S for a few years now....and this dirt pattern continues to occur after washing (even when sitting and drying a few days) and driving for an afternoon. Being OCD, this is driving me crazy. I remember someone else posting this problem years back, but a forum search couldn't find it or the solution. Please note the wheels/tires are not losing air pressure.
Anyone with Tramont Cups have this problem or ideas on how to solve? Also any popular ideas on how to easily clean around the bolts?
Are you using spray on wheel cleaner? It’s possible it seeped through the halves, and get slung back out when driving. I use soapy mits instead of spraying. Regarding the bolts, use a round brush, from your local hardware store, with some soapy water.
Had the same thing occur after a drive this weekend. I use reg car soap on the wheels and washed right off and I dry the car with a toro elec leaf blower.
You have water still in those crevices along with soap and dirt. Once you start driving, that water seeps out, causing this pattern. The best way to eliminate this problem is to dry off the bolts with an air compressor, leaf blower, etc. Just be careful when you do this and don't pick up any rocks, etc. that can fling back on your car.
Thank you all! I do use a foaming 'safe' wheel cleaner that removes the dirt well, but obviously it is seeping back out from the cracks when centripetal force is exerted driving. I'll use compressed air and see how that works.
Curious if any of you torque the wheel bolts holding the rims together. Again, no air leaks, but curious if that is part of normal checks on the wheels? If so, curious what the torque spec is for those?
A bit overkill. Get an electric leaf blower. It will do the same job for much, much less.
Not in my experience (Toro electric blower with a "turbo" setting). The leaf blower doesn't have enough power to drive water out of all of the crevices or under glass seals. A leaf blower is also quite unwieldy and bulky. I often dry my car in the garage so I don't annoy the neighbors; drying wheels creates an especially high-pitched scream that is obnoxious. My two car garage isn't very wide, so a leaf blower is simply not tenable. The Master Blaster has a very flexible hose, so you can direct it into small areas, under car seats, etc.
If you've got a six car garage on two plus acres, a gas blower might be a fine alternative to the Master Blaster, but an electric leaf blower is a distant second.
No such issues w. OEM Speedline wheels and I've been fortunate to own a couple of sets of those. It appears that they are clear coated after being bolted together and there are no gaps where dust and grime can hide. It doesn't look like Tramont produces them the same way... The bolts are also different on the Tramont wheels so that may have something to do with it as well.
09-18-2018, 09:34 PM
Weird Tramont Cup Wheel dirt pattern
