Review: Meguiars Non-Acid Wheel & Tire Cleaner Gallon D143

[Meticulous-Detail]

Meguiars Non-Acid Wheel & Tire Cleaner Gallon D143

Effective and easy cleaning of wheels and tires.

• Quickly removes brake dust, road grime, grease and dirt.
• Spray on, lightly agitate, hose off
• Dilutes up to 2:1

Meguiars Non-Acid Wheel & Tire Cleaner. Meguiar's Wheel & Tire Cleaner is the professional fast and effective non-acid-based cleaning of clear coated, factory painted, chrome wheel, and tire surfaces. Meguiars Non-Acid Wheel and Tire Cleaner easily and thoroughly cleans heavy dirt, grease, road film, and brake dust from the wheel, and tire.

Process:
Wear PE
Dilute in Megs bottle at 2 to 1
Rinse wheel and tire with strong stream of water
Spray on wheel and tire
Agitate tire with tire brush
Agitate wheel with long spoke wheel brush and short handle wheel brush
Rinse with wide spray setting

BEFORE

DURING

AFTER

Impressions: This is my go to wheel and tire cleaner for several reasons. It works well on both wheel and tires, it is inexpensive, foams up nice and clings to wheels and tires. No negatives in my book.

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[PA DETAILER]

thank you! i was waiting for a review on this. looks like a great product.

 

[Meticulous-Detail]

thank you! i was waiting for a review on this. looks like a great product.

Glad I could help.

 

[af90]

A few questions.

What foaming sprayer is that?

Did you notice the brake rotors changing much color?

How did it compare to other wheel cleaners like Sonax FE/Poorboys Spray and Rinse?

Thanks and nice review!

 

[Meticulous-Detail]

A few questions.

What foaming sprayer is that?

Did you notice the brake rotors changing much color?

How did it compare to other wheel cleaners like Sonax FE/Poorboys Spray and Rinse?

Thanks and nice review!

The foaming sprayer is from Megs OTC All Wheel and Tire bottle.

Yes a little change but this goes away once you drive the car.

I have used Sonax FE and did like it, but it is too expensive and I feel that Megs does just as good a job plus it cleans the tires very well too. I haven't used Poorboys.

 

[dc52nv]

Thanks for the review. Does this leave your tire brush clean after rinsing the brush?

 

[rjd598]

Tires look pretty clean. Would be interested if you hit with a different tire cleaner such as opc to see if anything would happen. Wheels look good

 

[Meticulous-Detail]

Thanks for the review. Does this leave your tire brush clean after rinsing the brush?

You need to hose it out, but I always hose all my brushes after use.

 

[Meticulous-Detail]

Tires look pretty clean. Would be interested if you hit with a different tire cleaner such as opc to see if anything would happen. Wheels look good

I don't have OPC, but use to use Meg's APC+ at heavy duty dilution and I like wheel and tire cleaner better. On really dirty tires the foam turns brown as it slides down the tires.

 

[KillaCam]

That wheel and tire looked really clean before. You should test it out on something neglected.

 

[BradsDetailing]

I'll be buying this as I'm looking for a good wheel and tire cleaner that is cheap. I'll do a comparison to see if opc takes anything else off for those interested. Just might take me a couple weeks.

 

[rjd598]

I'll be buying this as I'm looking for a good wheel and tire cleaner that is cheap. I'll do a comparison to see if opc takes anything else off for those interested. Just might take me a couple weeks.

I'm in for those results! I use mothers all wheel/tire cleaner or whatever it's called for my tires and love it. For the price it's hard to find a better tire cleaner

 

[Meticulous-Detail]

That wheel and tire looked really clean before. You should test it out on something neglected.

I have been using the OTC version for a year now and it works on very dirty wheels too. You can also dilute it 1 to 1 if you need it to be stronger. Is it as good as Wheel Brightner on a very dirty wheel? No, but neither is Sonax or Griots IMO.