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I just did this. Clean your wheel well liners while your at it. I used Simple Green for the first pass. Then WD40 and a scotch brite pad to get off any road tar and stains. After the inside dish is clean I wax everything. My wheels look concours clean. Now it's easy to keep them that way.
Spray it on with the wheel off on the insides, wait about 4 minutes and you will literally get all the brake dust off by cleaning with a wet rag, the stuff works SO WELL. I buy it by the gallon and use it when I wash my car. My wheels are spotless and so are my brake calipers.
Get at least two small bottles to do the job if you are doing the inside of all four of your wheels. It's like crack, so you might as well get a gallon.
That Sonax stuff is great! But, very expensive, so I don't use it at every cleaning. I have all sorts of spray detailers I bought that I don't like. They work very well for cleaning wheels though. For particularly stubborn stains, I use Flitz. Works amazingly!
Griot's Garage heavy duty wheel cleaner is the bomb. Works as well or better than Sonax and actually smells good. (If you have used Sonax, you know what I mean)
I wasn't sure if Simple Green was OK, since I think it is acidic? I don't know, I thought somewhere I heard that it wasn't wheel safe. Or maybe I just stopped using it because I didn't think it worked well. I forget. Maybe just getting senile.
I wasn't sure if Simple Green was OK, since I think it is acidic? I don't know, I thought somewhere I heard that it wasn't wheel safe. Or maybe I just stopped using it because I didn't think it worked well. I forget. Maybe just getting senile.
I spray it on, and wipe it off. IIRC, it is fine for wheels
I have all sorts of spray detailers I bought that I don't like. They work very well for cleaning wheels though.
Bingo!! I track my car sometimes, and brake dust and rubber goobers are massive!! But take off the wheels, scrape off the goobers and wipe inside and out with old detailing spray! Magic!
I've tried many of them and have settled on Griot's Heavy Duty (smells awesome) and Sonax full effect. Generally, Griot's for my truck and Sonax for the 996 - always seem to have one or the other laying around
Usually just water rinse & wipe off, mine don't usually get that dirty. Armour All has some Extreme Wheel & Tire cleaner that you just spray on & rinse off that works pretty good. A few of my buddies though, are not Happy unless they spend the extra $$$ on Griot's or Lane's Products. I guess to each his own!