white stuff on cleaned wheels!!

[stemyx]

so i went out and cleaned my wheels with Meguiar's All Wheel cleaner and after i dried, it had like white spots all over the wheel!! i don't know if its the cleaner as being too acidic or its just the wheel that needs better maintenance!

 

[HardLineDetail]

Care to provide some pictures?

 

[tuscarora dave]

Sometimes if you allow a stronger wheel cleaner to dwell on the wheel for too long, or it dries on the wheel, or it is sprayed on a hot wheel the cleaner can etch into the wheel's clear coating and a lot of the time it will have a white-ish look to it. This however is typically not little round spots but rather in the shape of sags or streaks depending on the cling-ability of the wheel cleaner. If the cleaner is more of a thicker gel type cleaner, that's when it can look like sags. The thinner the cleaner is you'll more likely have thinner run marks or streak marks from allowing it to dwell too long.

 

[stemyx]

Sometimes if you allow a stronger wheel cleaner to dwell on the wheel for too long, or it dries on the wheel, or it is sprayed on a hot wheel the cleaner can etch into the wheel's clear coating and a lot of the time it will have a white-ish look to it. This however is typically not little round spots but rather in the shape of sags or streaks depending on the cling-ability of the wheel cleaner. If the cleaner is more of a thicker gel type cleaner, that's when it can look like sags. The thinner the cleaner is you'll more likely have thinner run marks or streak marks from allowing it to dwell too long.

oh thanks for the info! do you know how to get rid of it??

 

[stemyx]

Care to provide some pictures?

sorry i was going to but you could barely see the white spots... sorry.....ill still post them though

sorry i cant post them for some reason

 

[tuscarora dave]

oh thanks for the info! do you know how to get rid of it??

polish it off with some of your favorite polish either by hand or get a power cone or other wheel polishing attachment for a drill.

Meguiars Brilliant Solutions Wheel Polishing Kit, Meguiars G3400, metal wheel polishing kit, polish aluminum wheels

 

[stemyx]

Care to provide some pictures?

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here they go!!! you can kind of see it but they are there. They are white spots on the top right spoke.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

polish it off with some of your favorite polish either by hand or get a power cone or other wheel polishing attachment for a drill.

Meguiars Brilliant Solutions Wheel Polishing Kit, Meguiars G3400, metal wheel polishing kit, polish aluminum wheels

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If using a powerball/cone type tool, be careful of the corners and raised edges, tool speed.

 

[stemyx]

Interesting.....I tried polishing it with Eagle One Wadding Polish.

 

[bigbadbp7]

This happened on my dads Chevy. The clear coat was kind of peeling and it got behind it and stained it. Nothing I could do.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

This happened on my dads Chevy. The clear coat was kind of peeling and it got behind it and stained it. Nothing I could do.

Sad, but true...
May prove cheaper to find a wheel at a junkyard, as opposed to the process of repairing.