D108 Super Degreaser uses

Hope the following helps:

Here's its MSDS:
http://www.meguiars.co.uk/attach/downloads/2680783_uk.pdf

•Contains Potassium hydroxide...
Use it on an aluminum wheel without a clear coat...
(Or aluminum clear-coated wheels with chips in them)
and you are not going to be very happy camper:
Potassium Hydroxide eats aluminum, and will turn it brown!

Also:
Here's a pertinent posting by a bona fide Chemist
that just so happens to be an AGO member:

PiPUK said:
Potassium hydroxide is caustic potash and, as stated by Audios S6, it is pretty nasty. Sodium and potassium hydroxides are effectively the alkaline equivalents of hydrofluoric and hydrochloric acid. Superb cleaners and common in many non-acid wheel cleaner. If you search on the topic, you will see that I think that caustics are best kept out of routine detailing as they are too aggressive (they will damage many more sensitive finishes).
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^^^:iagree:^^^

Bob
 
Thanks Bob! I can always count on you lurking out there to answer questions!
 
Bobby g was using this on that audi. Would this be too strong on my honda wheels. I'm pretty sure they're clear coated
 
frankprozzoly said:
Would this be too strong on my honda wheels. I'm pretty sure they're clear coated
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No. Not pretty sure:
You want to be absolutely, certainly, overly confidently sure---cocksure as it were---that they're coated...and with absolutely no breaches, whatsoever, in said coating!!

Here's an article on how to test for bare and coated aluminum:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles/40091-how-determine-what-type-wheels-you-have.html

Remember:
Unless you are removing the wheel/tire assembly to clean them:
There's the braking components to worry about. May not want to get any of this degreaser on something that crucial. :eek:


Bob
 
Although I'm quoted by proxy as saying its nasty, I will admit to using D108. I use it strictly for tires when other options fail. In those cases, I apply directly to the brush and scrub. Again, this is only when OPC, LATA and a couple others can't cut it. I would avoid using it on wheels unless all else has failed and you're sure the coating is full enact. I would however use it before strong acid wheel cleaners.
 
That guy that goes by Auto Fetish Detail sounds like he uses D108 for everything almost...

Made me wonder about how sound his advice is.
 
So basically it's safe on everything but metals?
 
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