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I’m trying to find a safe wheel cleaner for my new car. I just purchased a ZL1 1LE and it has black painted rims. The only wheel cleaner I have right now is Meguiars wheel brightener and I’m wondering if it’s too aggressive for these rims. Any input on what products would be best for this situation would be greatly appreciated.
 
I would stay away from the wheel brightener on painted wheels. On a sport car with heavy brake dust I like Meguiars ultimate wheel cleaner. It comes in 24 ounce bottles and does an amazing job.

Really any wheel cleaner with fall out remover will do well. You can see most working with color change

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Most here like P&S Brake buster which I feel is good but not as good as the Meguiars. If cleaning wheel often this works. Really good price too.

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I also like iron X and hear sonax wheel cleaner plus is good too but both iron removing cleaner like Meguiars and the Megs is cheaper.

Look into coating your wheels. Then they’ll clean up with just soap and water pretty easily.

I went with Gtechnic C5 went with it because mike likes it and just remember it doesn’t add gloss to black matte/satin wheels.


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kl0n0pin said:
I’m trying to find a safe wheel cleaner
for my new car. I just purchased a ZL1
1LE and it has black painted rims.

Any input on what products would be
best for this situation would be greatly
appreciated.
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For wheel cleaners that are perfectly
safe on all wheel types/finishes:

I use either P21S or S100 Wheel Cleaners
on our GM vehicles’ Black wheels: whether
they be painted or powdercoated.


Bob
 
I did some reading up on the suggested products and decided to go with the P21S. Seems to be the safest for painted and powdrecoated wheels. Thank you for the advice.
 
If you car puts out lots of heavy brake dust, P21S may not cut it. I used it while owning a BMW years ago and found my wash soap actually cleaned better...and was far cheaper.

I'd recommend the regular, green, Griot's Wheel Cleaner.
 
Careful what kind of brush you use, you'll want something rather soft.
 
A ceramic coating helps with cleaning the wheels without using a wheel cleaner all the time.
 
And Wheel Woolies for softness.

I have been using the Mothers brush for the faces but it feels somewhat not soft.
I recently bought the Wheel Woolie Boars hair brush to use instead.
 
Rsurfer said:
:iagree:Best wheel cleaner is soap and water.
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Yes sir.

I bit the baited hook of these wheel cleaners when I first started to get serious about detailing.

Only find that my car soap did the exact same job for about 1/50th of the price.

Live and learn........
 
spazzz said:
And Wheel Woolies for softness.

I have been using the Mothers brush for the faces but it feels somewhat not soft.
I recently bought the Wheel Woolie Boars hair brush to use instead.
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Get yourself some of the autofiber microfiber wheel mitts. You won’t miss the wheel brush on the faces of wheels.
 
The Guz said:
Get yourself some of the autofiber microfiber wheel mitts. You won’t miss the wheel brush on the faces of wheels.
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Aw jeez Mike, I just spent $35.
I didn't have a problem with a microfiber towel but just fell in love with the brush for the deeper crevices of the wheels.
Plus I always banged my hands with the towel approach.

The Mitts look nice and soft, are they water proof?
 
spazzz said:
And Wheel Woolies for softness.

I have been using the Mothers brush for the faces but it feels somewhat not soft.
I recently bought the Wheel Woolie Boars hair brush to use instead.
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Just bought both and definitely not using mothers brush. Hiw do you like WW BHB?


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spazzz said:
Aw jeez Mike, I just spent $35.
I didn't have a problem with a microfiber towel but just fell in love with the brush for the deeper crevices of the wheels.
Plus I always banged my hands with the towel approach.

The Mitts look nice and soft, are they water proof?
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Have them no not water proof. I like rhem but dont feel too secure on the fingers.... why i bought brushes....

I do like rhe AF for getting behind spokes and a BHB 1” detail brush for deep cleanings. Was hoping WW BHB would speed up process.


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As some has mentioned the brushes or wheel wash mitts is more important to get a quality of those. Many wheel brushes I think is way to aggressive than needed to be. Wheel Woolies for the wheel barrels and either of the 2 brushes on the wheel face. Or great mf towels dedicated to wheel cleaning or wash mf mitts/pads.

I use Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus as maintance wheel cleaner and mostly just PW clean rinsing it off is enough for a couple of washes. Car soap solution in the wheel bucket for added lubrication from it when doing a contact wash. And the Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus has a new much stronger formulation. And it's in the iron remover part it's way stronger than before.

Have any of you guys who just use car soap on the wheels. Tried to apply a bleeding wheel cleaner after your wash with car soap? And do you get any bleeding effect from it then?
Sure you can get it visual clean with a car soap solution. But would be interesting to hear if you get the imbedded brake dust off too with that. If anyone has done or want to try a bleeding wheel cleaner or an iron remover to see how it looks after your wash. Would be appreciated to hear about your experience. With a some kind of regualar use with an iron remover ability from the wheel cleaner. I think is good to be doing so you have a minimal build up of the imbedded iron particals from the brakes.

/ Tony
 
I only use waterless wash on my wheels. (I know steelies are not the same as real black wheels, but they are painted black Lol) The key is putting good layer of protection on them. I put a couple of coats of Meguiars UFF on them before winter and they look brand new after some waterless wash, a microfiber towel and minimal effort.

I followed the same plan on my Golf's silver painted alloy wheels which saw way more brake dust than my Impreza (which is the norm with German cars) and they cleaned just as easily.
 
spazzz said:
Aw jeez Mike, I just spent $35.
I didn't have a problem with a microfiber towel but just fell in love with the brush for the deeper crevices of the wheels.
Plus I always banged my hands with the towel approach.

The Mitts look nice and soft, are they water proof?
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It’s only a half mitt so you are going to get your hands wet. They work great in the face of the wheel and agitating behind a wheel spoke.

You will still need to use a wheel woolie or something gym similar to get into the wheel.
 
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