Cleaning Alloys

nophd08

Hi all, as above I need to clean my alloys which
have ground in brake dust, wont budge with normal
car wash or scrubbing. Any idea's?

Ded_Zebra

I find this stuff very good for brake dust.

http://www.halfords.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_11101_catalogId_15551_productId_195615_langId_-1_categoryId_212511

Curran

The "ground in brake dust" is actually red hot particles from your brake, that embed themselves in your alloys...if they look like the image below....a run of the mill wheel cleaner wont do the job.




You'll need a de-ironiser and even at that you'll wont get them clean on the first attempt as they've been neglected a bit to get that bad...also, to a lesser extent, your paintwork can pick up the particles too.
You'll need to pick up something like Iron Cleanse (extremely good), IronX (very good), Wolfs DeconGel (Ive only tried Version 2, was OK, but V3 is supposed to be great), Purple Rain (OK)....all are designed to work on paintwork also....and a fun to use on white cars!

Spray on, let dwell for a few minute or two, they solution will turn purple (cause be the iron contamination) and will bleed, agitate with detailing brush helps a little, and then rinse of with water...repeat as necessary!
This is how most of the above will look after dwelling for 2 mins, after going as a clear solution.

Hal1

After using something like that IronX stuff. Try claying your wheels. It might take a while with that wheel pattern but my god it's worth the effort.