Cleaning up my new wheels, advice please

**Mrk_Mickey** · 13-03-2009, 12:48 AM

Would a sealant benefit a freshly clayed wheel in the same way it benefits freshly polished wheels or bodywork? I think it'd be a nice idea to spend a day claying and rejuvinating my wheels and sealing them

**DMS_Dan** · 17-03-2009, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Mrk_Mickey

Would a sealant benefit a freshly clayed wheel in the same way it benefits freshly polished wheels or bodywork? I think it'd be a nice idea to spend a day claying and rejuvinating my wheels and sealing them

Hell yeah.

On the weekend i pulled the wheels of my ute. Cleaned and clayed the insides. Gave them 3 coats of Autoglym alloy wheel seal.

Cleaned all suspension and wheel wells. All metal was coated in alloy wheel seal x 3 all plastics were coated in 303 x 2.

After driving through the rain it all looks as good as it did when it was finished. My mechanic is going to be impressed when he does the service on it

**jasn78** · 17-03-2009, 07:23 AM

Dan, on this topic since my wheels are 2pak would i just be better using the same sealant as the rest of my car or something else?

**DMS_Dan** · 17-03-2009, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by jasn78

Dan, on this topic since my wheels are 2pak would i just be better using the same sealant as the rest of my car or something else?

The car sealant is fine for the application on painted wheels. Layer it up though so you get good protection

**RhysQ** · 17-03-2009, 01:30 PM

Alright I went and picked up the wheels from the TNT depot today so they are now sitting in my lounge room at home.... pretty stoked

. I have just (about 5 mins ago) ordered some of that P21S Polishing Soap from carcareproducts.com.au as well to polish them up. How long in the post should that be? Hopefully I can get the stuff by this weekend so I can work on the wheels.

The wheels are actually pretty dirty with quite a lot of brake dust inside the barrels and around the bolts. Would you advise that I give them a bit of a clean over with some warm soapy water to give myself a 'clean canvas' to work with.

I'll put some pics up tonight when I get home.

**DMS_Dan** · 17-03-2009, 06:59 PM

You should get the stuff from Car Care Products tomorrow as i assume it would have been sent express post. If it was sent courier you should get it Thursday. They dont muck about with sending out product, because im in Sydney i call up before 10am and i have the stuff by 4 that avo.

Yeah give them a good clean with either a wheel cleaner (i recommend autoglym custom wheel cleaner AWESOME) and a soft paintbrush to get into all the little nooks. Then polish away

**RhysQ** · 17-03-2009, 07:58 PM

here are some piccies.....

THIS IS THE WORST WHEEL

**Mrk_Mickey** · 17-03-2009, 10:57 PM

Dude...they look awesome. Hope they come out how you want them to!

Of course if they don't I'll take 'em

**RhysQ** · 18-03-2009, 09:44 AM

I gave one a quick clean up last night with a wet cloth (the bad one with the black marks/scrapes on the spokes), and I was surprised at how much dirt came off them just from doing that! More than half of that black stuff came off the spokes, and a lot of dirt on the lips. Hopefully the polishing soap will get the tarnish off the lips, that's my main concern.

One main problem I had... I tried to get the studs out last night but because the wheels are so old, they are completely fixed in there. There are nuts on the underside but even with a spanner, i nearly stripped the pattern on the nut. It didn't even move slightly

. Looks like I'll have to work around them.

Dan you might be able to help me a bit here. Apparently that polishing soap cannot be used on clear coated or painted wheels. The spokes on mine are clear coated silver paint. Will I have to tape them off so absultely NO soap gets on them, or does it more mean not to purposefully rub it on the spokes. Do you reckon it will be ok if I get a little bit on the spokes when cleaning the lips?