Wheel cleaning

[S90]

Get yourself some Dragons Breath from Cleanyourcar.com, epic stuff, dissolves all the dust etc and then just pressure wash. After that a bit of wheel wax will prevent the muck sticking

[pagan8c]

Originally Posted by nu11eaf

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I do not wash mine very often but like you found a strong solution of washing up liquid and water works a treat, several people on YouTube say distilled white vinegar works very well too.

Just make sure you eat the pickles first. !

[Quacker]

Originally Posted by nu11eaf

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I do not wash mine very often but like you found a strong solution of washing up liquid and water works a treat, several people on YouTube say distilled white vinegar works very well too.

Yes, soap and water for lightly soiled wheels. Heavier deposits, like I suppose we both get, seeing as we don't tend to wash recreationally, can be removed by a diluted acid like vinegar/acetic acid, or the commercially available branded phosphoric or sulphuric acids made for the job.

I've currently got two five litre concentrate containers of wheel cleaner on the go. One is Neilson and the other is Wonder Wheels, both of which I got from local motor factors. I use the WW very sparingly for reasons mentioned below and I forgot I had it when I bought the Neilson.

The advantage of the acid cleaner is that it costs only about £12 for five litres and can be diluted 2:1 with water to make 15 litres, which comes down to £0.80 per litre, whereas the Wonder Wheels costs near £5/litre and isn't effective when diluted.

Applied through a trigger applicator once filled with glass cleaner and used in that dilution, I have found no drawback to using the acid whatsoever.