Megs Wheel brightener VS. Brown Royal

Ive had the opposite experience from the OP. For me I have yet to find BR to work as advertised, and the WB kicks butt for me on older abused wheels.
 
HateSwirls said:
OK, that was my plan so I'll stick with it.
It will make me two gallons:dblthumb2:
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Having one bottle at 1:1 and one bottle at 4:1 will serve you well. Least aggressive first, just like polishing.
 
A tip: After each use of WB which isn't daily I take the sprayer off and spray clear water through it. I never store it with Wb in the nozzle.
Steve
 
Brown royal is a non etching cleaner.Intially was made to wash panel trucks or cargo panel trucks that semi pull.Also intended for gutters and soffits as there are no protective properties on them.kinda of messy to work with.
 
I have and use both. WB definitely works. However, you are going to run into alot of safety issues with it upfront. BR is great at 1:1 but as said is a bit messy to work with but is also able to work on other surfaces. Says directly so on the bottle
 
I have used the Brown Royal for last 5 years and have been very happy with it.

I usually use it to maintain my DD painted wheels but have used it twice on some really nasty wheels and plastic hucaps.

My winter wheels as received November 2012

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These wheels had probably never been cleaned since 2001.

The barrels were the worst but the faces were not as bad but clear coat failure everywhere.

My winter wheels after Brown Royal

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2 applications of BR, let dwell 1-2 minutes and agitated with wheel brushes and hosed off.

Could have used IronX on the rust, but was going to sand anyway so didn't bother (plus it was below zero in the garage and not sure how long the water would spray).

Not perfect but at least good enough to take indoors and begin to prep for Plasti-Dip painting I planned on doing.

The second test was a set of Hubcaps off my daughter's 2007 Yaris that I did this month.

Sorry no pictures, as was doing a re-paint on the faces only, and the brake dust was on the backs.

Again, the hubcaps had probably never been cleaned in 9 years and the fronts were especially dirty.

2 applications of BR, let dwell 1-2 minutes and agitated with lug nut brush and hosed off.

Later indoors (yes it was freezing weather again) I did one more application on the fronts only and rinsed in the sink (warm water finally).

Brown Royal removed all of the brake dust and road crap without much work at all.

I did the faces as well as a pre-clean for the painting prep as well.

Face after cleaning with Brown Royal.

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I also used the Meg's Wheel Brightner on the DD summer and winter wheels, but it was an acid and did not work any better than the Brown Royal.

The winter wheels ended up being polished eventually and didn't feel comfortable using acid on non-coated Aluminum Alloy

I used up the bottle and did not replace it.

Not really on topic, but shot after wet sanding clear coat with 1500 grit and polishing with Nano iBrid Polisher 1" rotary Blue and Yellow polishes.

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I've used WB on a few sets of wheels now and so far have to say I'm not seeing any advantages over my go-to which is Megs Non-Acid Wheel & Tire Cleaner. In fact I prefer the 'foaming' of the Non-Acid product -- WB is very runny. I'll keep WB for a bit and see if I grow to like it or find a good use for it, but so far it's looking like it might sit around or I might sell what's left of my gallon and try something else (Sonax FE? P21S?).
 
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