No HTwo O

Try rubbing the spots with the Rejex wax. May take a little elbow grease and time to disolve the spots. Worth a try. For stuburn spots, usually use something like Wurth citrus degreaser, and re-wax area.

p-cardriver

Check the detailing forum or detailers domain (I think that is the web forum) for more advice. My approach would be to start with a mild cleaner/polish and work up in aggressiveness as needed. In our garage that would mean first Klasse AIO, then if needed I have some 3M Hand Polish (I think that's what its called), and finally some very old chrome polish which is probably a bad idea to use on painted wheels. After that I would have to buy something or just take the car to a detail shop and have them show me their approach.

Mspeedster

+1 on staying ahead of it. I have the Carrera Classics, its simple 5 spoke design makes things much easier. I also use Klasse on them which makes them very easy to clean. I wipe the wheels down with a bucket of plain water every 2 to 3 days. Takes less than 30 minutes to complete and the wheels never get really dirty. This process also prevents the greasy mess left from water in the discs that you get from the wet brakes when driving after a normal wash. When I wash the car, I don't usually wash the rims, as they are already clean.

About every 2 to 3 months I'll clean the rims really well using a hose, soap and water. I'll sometimes use an air blower to dry off the brakes, then I drive the car around the block and clean the inner rim a second time to get rid of any greasy mess left by the rotors. My cleaning routine for the rims is kept separate from my car wash and wax cycles.

Heck, my car is black anyway, so it's a labor of love that I don't mind at all. The reward is a black beauty that is almost always in pristine showroom condition.

Targa Tim

you guys are good.

I never clean the inside of the wheels in any of my cars ever.

stevepow

I never did until this car - the wheels are so open that I really have to or they don't look clean - which makes the car not look clean. So what facilitates the cleaning also necessitates it.

JCH

I found Michelin's brake dust repellant to really keep the dust down between washings. No affiliation.

http://www.michelinman.com/tire-care...care-products/

I also used a squeegee system made for cleaning plate glass windows, an idea that I picked up on some forum. I got the tool at Lowes. The simple system includes the squeegee on a pole and a a mop like cover for the squeegee intended to wet down the window before squeezing the water off. My mod was to saw off the pole. This gave me a 2 foot long, narrow rigid tool to get deep between the spokes to clean the insides of the rim.

pdxjim

This is what I ordered today from Cabelas: Interesting video.

http://www.armorall.com/products/vie...gory_index=new

ADias

How do you apply the Michelin product? Is it a spray? Do you apply it with the rim mounted?

ADias

Impressive! It appears though that it should be sprayed on an unmounted rim. Is that not the case? Please keep us posted on your experience.

pdxjim

I have a friend who applied it to his mounted tires. He pointed out to me the areas that he had missed! He did not take the wheels off his car due to shoulder surgery. I will take the rims off for proper cleaning and then application. I have used Rejex in the past and like it, but this appears to better.

JCH

the michelin product is a spray.

spray on, give it 30 seconds to set up, wipe off.

ADias

Do you need to protect the brake disk/caliper and the tire? What has been your experience with this product?

ajayabb

Damn Dan,
God Bless you for even being able to walk upright!

JCH

on the michelin product.....very, very simple. Protect nothing, spray on, let it set up, wipe off.

Look at the wheels on my avatar car. These are nightmares to keep clean. This stuff made it so that I did not have to spend 70% of my wash time detailing the wheels. As far as i was concerned, this product put the wheels just inside the boundary of the time I was pleased to be spending to fuss with them.

nyca

Anyone here try the Sonax wheel cleaner?