How dirty do your rims get.

[Maz]

All recent european cars have brake pads that generate a lot of dust - Its due to the compound used in the pads.

[Pepe]

Black Talladega's FTW

Actually, after a week, even they look a little dull with a bit of dust on them... but they never look dirty.

[spiff]

have the same rims.. mine get dirty weekly.. luckily my car is a colour that blends with the dirty rim
i apply the same polish on the rim that i do on the car every 4-6 months.

[moniker]

I reckon for some reason the back wheels are tending to get black spots on them (like rust spots) more often than the front. Dunno, just noticed that on the weekend (Detroits also).
Maybe the rear pads are a different compound than the front??

[maca]

I might head down to Super Cheap this weekend to see if they have any wax or asbestos (j/k)

I reckon I'd upset a few GTI owners if I put detroits on my 118 TSI

I did it to my Jetta But then again, the US spec GLI comes with them. Regardless of whether mine's a diesel or not.

They aren't really easy to clean, but a lot easer than the stock Atlanta rims.

[Prodigy]

I use Autoglym alloy wheel sealer. The wrx was terrible for brake dust but when this was applied the brake dust didn't tend to stick to the wheel anywhere near as bad. It's also a lot easier to remove, generally the dust will just rinse off.

[Beaker]

Like asbestos perhaps? Whatever happened to that stuff?

Spot on - brake pads have never been the same since they took asbestos out, they dust more and brake less. I've not found a decent (road) brake pad in the last 10 years.

[AdamD]

All recent european cars have brake pads that generate a lot of dust - Its due to the compound used in the pads.

Agreed ref the European pads. My past three Hondas used pads that generated much less dust - cleaning the wheels was a fortnightly-to-monthly exercise, and the dust rinsed off easily. My GTI (and my parents' MkV FSIs, and my father's CC) produce so much dust that the wheels are inevitably filthy inside a week, and adding water to the mix just makes the stuff cling to everything - wheels, hands, rags, you name it. I've found that wiping the dust off the rim with a rag before rinsing makes the wheel clean job a vastly quicker and less messy exercise.

As an aside, I've had it from several sources that the compound VW prefers contributes to the great pedal feel. That and super-soft discs also - my father's Golf required a scheduled rear disc change at 30,000km! (This may be normal for VW, but it shocked me coming from Hondas that didn't require new discs in 100,000+km.)

[gareth_oau]

Ive got Brembo 6 pots and genuine Brembo pads on my GT-P and the dust from those is rediculous. wheels are filthy within 2 days of a wash.

My S3 has EBC Green Stuff pads and they dont seem to give off any dust at all

[teodeh]

Fortunately my car has been ordered with the space-age paint protection, guaranteeing that my car will never get dirty. I'm surprised you didn't order this space-age airplane grade super-duper technology -- P.S. according to my dealer's associate, your paint is all going to fall off in the next week and a half.

Then again, maybe I should call them to make sure the paint protection is going on the alloys too... will be a bummer if they get dirty (and I don't want the paint to explode off the wheels, either).