New alloys- best product to brake dust/tar

M S E

Recently bought new alloys. I clean them off five days a week with just water after driving and the other two days with product. (Don't want to over use product on them) Small particles of brake dust and tar beginning to show on them now here and there. Just wondering which product ye would recommend to remove brake dust and tar without damaging the alloys. Thank you.

Shlippery

From my own limited experience, I can say CarPro TarX is excellent for the Tar anyways, got a bottle of it last week and it dissolved the spots on my car nearly instantly! Smells unreal too!

I've Auto Finesse Iron Out for the Iron / brake dust cos I couldn't get a hold of Iron X, although I think Korrosol might be good as well?

From quick use, it got the wheels bleeding pink/purple and left them spotless after a rinse.

edburg

Bilthamber autowheel or korrosol or both.

But maybe good idea to get yourself a good sealant on the wheels, this should reduce the ability of crap to stick to wheels.

Likes of carpro, gtechniq, carbon collective have sealants which will last for 12 months plus at a time.

Poorboys, chemical guys etc have paste sealants which should get 3 months with good care.

Curran

Good advice from the lads.

Best thing for you would be to seal them with a ceramic sealant - this will protect them and make them far easier to use.
The brake dust that you cant easily wash off, is embedded hot iron particles, and the only thing that will remove that is a fallout remover - Bilt Hamber Auto Wheel is very good, and if the wheels were sealed with ceramic coating, then they would only need a wash with soapy water, and every 3rd or 4th week a light once over with Auto Wheel to keep the build up of embedded particles at bay.

Just to note, with ceramic sealants, there is a bit of prep work and care needed during application and curing - but worth the effort researching and following it to the letter of the law - 12+ months of easy care is very beneficial.
There are other traditional type products that can give up to 4 months protection; ODK Momentum has built in SiO2 to help with durability. Then the old skool type waxes and sealants will give up to 3 months protection - its the type of job Id want to do once and not have to worry about it again for a long time!

Shlippery

Curran wrote: »

Good advice from the lads.

Best thing for you would be to seal them with a ceramic sealant - this will protect them and make them far easier to use.
The brake dust that you cant easily wash off, is embedded hot iron particles, and the only thing that will remove that is a fallout remover - Bilt Hamber Auto Wheel is very good, and if the wheels were sealed with ceramic coating, then they would only need a wash with soapy water, and every 3rd or 4th week a light once over with Auto Wheel to keep the build up of embedded particles at bay.

Just to note, with ceramic sealants, there is a bit of prep work and care needed during application and curing - but worth the effort researching and following it to the letter of the law - 12+ months of easy care is very beneficial.
There are other traditional type products that can give up to 4 months protection; ODK Momentum has built in SiO2 to help with durability. Then the old skool type waxes and sealants will give up to 3 months protection - its the type of job Id want to do once and not have to worry about it again for a long time!

On the topic sealants, I got a tiny 100ml bottle of that Carpro Reload stuff, that I'll try using when I get home this weekend, would that be any good on the alloys after the decontamination or should I save it for the body of the car?

Curran

Shlippery wrote: »

On the topic sealants, I got a tiny 100ml bottle of that Carpro Reload stuff, that I'll try using when I get home this weekend, would that be any good on the alloys after the decontamination or should I save it for the body of the car?

Anything is better than nothing!
It will do a reasonable job without being amazing. You'd be looking at similar durability as a traditional wheel wax; 2-3 months...but much easier to apply. Spray on, buff off.

M S E

Thank you to all for the advice. About a month back got very good advice also on maintaining the exhaust/exhaust tips. I think the best thing to do so is to firstly look into sealants for the alloys and take it from there.

s8n

some good tips here, thanks

MetzgerMeister

If you don't want to go down the line of coatings like Gtechniq C5 etc., I would suggest Chemical Guys Wheel Guard and Collinite 845.

SBPhoto

Collinite 845 works very well on the alloys also, handy if like me you use it as the wax finnish on the Car. great product.

pa990

Any wax is better than no wax.

I recently got some Fuso 99 (Japanese wax) for the car.

I took the wheels off, used autoglym whell cleaner, rinced that off.
Sprayed some Holts tar remover.
Washed with Maguires car wash gel.,
Then applied some metal polish
Followed by Fusso 99.

Then having put the wheels back on, washed the car, and when drying, used Maguires quick detailer when drying off the wheels.

Turned out quite well.

Now it won't be to the standard of some perfectionists in this forum, but I used what I had to hand.

I've too much stuff in the shed to justify buying any more.

Curran

A suggestion if I may.....bin the Holts Tar Remover....horrid stuff; extremely aggressive. Great at removing tar, and whatever the tar is on.

edburg

Curran wrote: »

A suggestion if I may.....bin the Holts Tar Remover....horrid stuff; extremely aggressive. Great at removing tar, and whatever the tar is on.

You perfectionist you :pac:

pea be

Curran wrote: »

A suggestion if I may.....bin the Holts Tar Remover....horrid stuff; extremely aggressive. Great at removing tar, and whatever the tar is on.

What would you recommend instead?

I have a vw touran that seems to be a magnet for tar!

pea be

Curran wrote: »

A suggestion if I may.....bin the Holts Tar Remover....horrid stuff; extremely aggressive. Great at removing tar, and whatever the tar is on.

What would you recommend instead?

I have a vw touran that seems to be a magnet for tar!

edburg

pea be wrote: »

What would you recommend instead?

I have a vw touran that seems to be a magnet for tar!

Had great results and very happy with autobrite just the tonic myself, much much better than tardis I was previously pointed to. Tar-x is popular choice here to.

MetzgerMeister

TarX smells of citrus. It's the only tar remover I've ever used that's fairly ok on the nose although still strong!

Curran

CarPro TarX offers the best of what you need - you want something safe to use, and not have to worry about staining plastics and trim, etc, but also something that removes tar (obviously) - there are plenty of decent tar removers available, but not all are exact safe....so TarX is my go to.