Torture Test! Turtle Wax Foaming Wheel Cleaner

[Don M]

I used the Hybrid Solutions Foaming Wheel and Tire Cleaner on the wife-mobile today. It hasn`t been washed since early Fall and the front brakes put out a ton of dust. The normally silver rims were brown/black and I figured this would be a good test subject for the wheel cleaner.

The wheels and tires were cleaned in two steps. Step one was using a stiff brush for the tires and a soft brush for the rims to scrub the heaviest grunge away. After a good rinse, the wheels/tires were resprayed with the cleaner and scrubbed with a wet microfiber towel and rinsed again. I had a bucket of water to dip the brushes and towel in, but there was no additional soaps in the bucket, just water.

I bought a tire dressing applicator this morning and when the tires dried, used it to apply the Turtle Wax Ceramic/Acrylic Tire Coating. I used 4 or 5 sprays into the applicator for each tire and wiped it really well into each tire. I`m telling you, those tires must have been DRY! Because after getting a good coating on the tires, they dried almost instantly and I didn`t have to use a microfiber to level it off or remove any excess dressing - there wasn`t any, the tires must have soaked up that dressing like a man dying of thirst.

I tried to keep this brief, but I DO have pics, before cleaning, after cleaning and finished. Here they are:

 

[PA DETAILER]

Both good products. Great results.

 

[bill walsh]

looks nice

 

[Rsurfer]

Nice job, I expected worse on the before picture. Did all the browning come out?

The last picture on the wheels look brighter than the cleaned wheel. Did you put something on the wheels?

 

[Don M]

Nice job, I expected worse on the before picture. Did all the browning come out?

The last picture on the wheels look brighter than the cleaned wheel. Did you put something on the wheels?

All the brown/black came off of the rims and tires (except for the barrels, I didn't get to them). Good eye, I used the HS Ceramic Spray coating on the rims. I've pretty much switched to the HS Pro Line for the paint and I have the Ceramic Spray left over so I might as not waste it.