Alloy Wheel Cleaner?

Gaygle · 30 Apr 2014 at 16:39

Sonax Wheel Cleaner is good.

However in classic fashion, the best one i've found so far is the cheap stuff by Astonish that they sell at cheap shops in the opaque black sprays, called "Tar and glue remover". It's about a quid a bottle and works fantastically.

Blackhawk47 · 30 Apr 2014 at 16:50

To be honest, I tend to grab 3 for 2 on demon shine wheel cleaner, works just as good as the others for a fraction of the price.

86JR · 30 Apr 2014 at 17:35

I use this but it tends to leave streaks of caked on stuff. I probably ought to get a brush:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_794537_langId_-1_categoryId_255235

Greboth · 30 Apr 2014 at 19:25

mrk said:
The last half litre of Bilberry will be finished soon I guess so will try out IronX!

Iron X isn't a wheel cleaner though. I love Iron x for what it does on wheels that haven't been clean in a looooong time or heavy embedded brake dust but if the wheels are cleaned reasonable regularly and sealed then you shouldn't need anything strong. On a maintenance wash I spray my weels with ValetPro Citrus pre wash @ 10:1 when I am pre washing the car, bit of work with wheels brushes and they are spotless.

Scania · 1 May 2014 at 09:24

One of the best alloy wheel cleaners I've found is a high pressure steam cleaner although the one we use at work for cleaning truck chassis etc will take the wheel back to metal, never mind remove the dust!!

I've tried wonder wheels in the past and wasn't very impressed, TFR (traffic film remover) as used to wash commercial vehicles is very good but by god it burns!

Lisapete · 1 May 2014 at 12:09

Here is 1 wheel....

Told you they are dirty

shauncr91 · 1 May 2014 at 13:20

I'd Iron X the **** out of them

Lisapete · 1 May 2014 at 14:23

shauncr91 said:
I'd Iron X the **** out of them

C4 i think! I've tried to jet wash them once. Didn't get very far as you can tell

86JR · 1 May 2014 at 19:22

What I sometimes wonder about doing is buying a seperate snowfoam lance and using billberry or similar in it just to snowfoam the wheels - because from experience the billberry etc never gets into all the nooks and crannys.

Lisapete · 2 May 2014 at 09:26

86JR said:
What I sometimes wonder about doing is buying a seperate snowfoam lance and using billberry or similar in it just to snowfoam the wheels - because from experience the billberry etc never gets into all the nooks and crannys.

Worth a try

tsinc80697 · 2 May 2014 at 15:03

What's best for the inside of a wheel, that I can buy tomorrow in-store, not online. I used to use Shinearama in Manchester but they closed a while ago, not sure if there are any other good car care shops in/around Manchester?

shauncr91 · 2 May 2014 at 16:09

For something that bad I'd probably go for something slightly acidic such as Auto Glym wheel cleaner or similar.