The rubber molding can probably be improved but not fixed. You can try to clean it really well and apply a dressing which will restore a darker color or dye it using a product like Back to Black.
This is just the normal type of problem because car manufactures use cruddy rubber, vinyl and plastic on modern cars and overtime it deteriorates and there's no real good remedy.
The wheels look like they are clear coated, if that's true then you treat them like paint, that is you use paint care products like compounds, polishes and waxes.
Stains are either topical, that is right on the very surface or sub-surface. If they are sub-surface, that is the offending substance has penetrated "into" the clear layer of paint then you need to abrade the paint to remove a little paint and uncover what's left of the good or un-stained paint.
Because of the shape of the wheel, the small size and much less affect on the "Big Picture" (of how the car looks overall), most people would forget about. If you do want to try to fix it it's a heck of a lot easier to remove the wheel and place it on a table of some sort.
There's another possibility that the wheels are anodized, if this is the case there's NOTHING you can do to undo the damage except to
- De-anodize the entire rim
- Re-polish the aluminum to make it have an uniform appearance
- Re-anodize the entire rim
The cost, labor and flat out hassle to do all of the above is another thing most people would simply forget about or buy new wheel.
Now... how does the paint look? Is it flawless or does it have swirls? That's something you can probably fix. That would be "Big Picture" detailing.
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