Wheel cleaning

[imported_wagsjr]

I have a detail coming up with some abused polshed aluminum wheels. APC will not cut it to remove 3 years of winters and gunk without being washed. If I go with a strong acidic cleaner it will oxidize them badly. Once they get to that point polishing them only lasts so long and you have to do it all the time. Havetn cleaned something this bad in a long time.





They are the American Racing Outlaw wheels with the polished aluminum, no cc.

 

[imported_DieselMDX]

a metal polish and megs power ball?

 

[Way2SSlow]

I usually hit mine with S100/P21S poishing soap before I begin to polish. Seems to cut down on some of the work.

 

[evil_c5]

spent maybe 20 min or so on each wheel.

as you can see the bogarts have seen better days, this was after cleaning with the wheel cleaner and a brush.



I used my signiture Adams system to polish aluminum and it came thru for me once again. I started off with the Adams #1 metal polish and 0000 steel wool to get off the caked on baked on brake dust off. Then lightly polished the residue off with a disposible cotton wipe. To make it look like chrome, I used a microfiber applicator with the Adams #2 to apply a light coat, after using the disposible cotton wipes to polish the residue off leaving behind a chrome-like shine.

 

[imported_wagsjr]

They are 10x worse than that. Solid brown. I may have to use the acid. It is a 96 Rodeo and hasnt seen a bath in 6-7 the owner tells me