Sealing chrome wheels
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Mike Phillips
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Nice looking wheels.
Whatever you choose to use, do your research and do your best to make sure the manufacture states the product can be used on chrome.
Chrome is very different than car paint, or wheel paint and just because a coating bonds to one type of coating doesn't automatically mean it will bond to chrome.
Just sayin...
I know that over the last 60 to 70 decades a traditional Carnauba Hard Wax has proven effective at maintaining chrome.
The most important thing you can do to maintain chrome is to keep it clean. Dirt on chrome traps moisture and all the icky corrosive substances embodied in the dirt against the chrome surface. This is especially a problem whenever there's a seem, crack, tight area, intricate design, etc., basically any place that will be hard to get the bristle of a brush into to agitate the surface.
No agitation, no dirt removal. That why on most chrome wheels you see the the chrome peeling and rust forming on the steel in these areas... because they are more difficult to clean and the average person just gives the face of the wheel a quick brushing, not a thorough cleaning and the dirt builds up over time.
So get some good brushes and some good wheel cleaners and when you get your pretty wheel dirt, go about the process of getting them very clean.
I'm the biggest fan of wheel designs that are easy to clean. The more pretty or complicated and intricate the design, the more difficult the wheel is to clean and the more time and energy it will require to really do a good job of cleaning them.
Whatever you choose to use, do your research and do your best to make sure the manufacture states the product can be used on chrome.
Chrome is very different than car paint, or wheel paint and just because a coating bonds to one type of coating doesn't automatically mean it will bond to chrome.
Just sayin...
I know that over the last 60 to 70 decades a traditional Carnauba Hard Wax has proven effective at maintaining chrome.
The most important thing you can do to maintain chrome is to keep it clean. Dirt on chrome traps moisture and all the icky corrosive substances embodied in the dirt against the chrome surface. This is especially a problem whenever there's a seem, crack, tight area, intricate design, etc., basically any place that will be hard to get the bristle of a brush into to agitate the surface.
No agitation, no dirt removal. That why on most chrome wheels you see the the chrome peeling and rust forming on the steel in these areas... because they are more difficult to clean and the average person just gives the face of the wheel a quick brushing, not a thorough cleaning and the dirt builds up over time.
So get some good brushes and some good wheel cleaners and when you get your pretty wheel dirt, go about the process of getting them very clean.
I'm the biggest fan of wheel designs that are easy to clean. The more pretty or complicated and intricate the design, the more difficult the wheel is to clean and the more time and energy it will require to really do a good job of cleaning them.
Detailing by M
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I can recommend Meguiar's Break Dust Barrier.
easy to use and long lasting.
easy to use and long lasting.
