Just thought I'd share my experience and pass on what I did today. For those that want to keep your wheels around a while, here's what I did.

I had an opportunity today to finally do what I've been meaning to do for weeks if not months. My wheels looked clean, but I was not satisfied with it knowing that there were spots on the inside of the rim that could not be removed from a simple hand wash. I had tried using a claybar last month to remove all the imperfections, but that didn't work at all.

Here are some pics after I drove through a storm yesterday. We haven't had rain in a long time, so the roads were pretty dirty from traffic and what not.





This is the reason why I wanted to do the wheels. We got caught in a storm after a small Z meet and lunch.

 

Next thing I did was set up a staging area to wash the wheels. I laid out a floor mat on the grass, then sprayed the wheels down to remove all the surface dirt first. Then I washed the wheel with regular car soap and a wool mitten. After spraying that off, I used Nevr Dull polishing wadding cloth to remove all the contaminants from the inner wheel. This stuff works great! All the road tar and rail dust came off with a little bit of elbow grease. I did the whole inside and backside of the wheel. I did NOT do that to my polished lip.

After scrubbing it down with Nevr Dull, I washed the wheel again. Sprayed it down and moved it the another staging area to dry them. When the wheel was dry, I used a liquid wax on the front, back, and inside of the wheel. I covered my spokes, lip, and inside surface with wax. Then I let it sit for a couple of minutes before taking a tee shirt to get it all off.

 

It's amazing how clean the wheels look now. I don't think I've ever noticed the pearliness of the bronze paint on the spokes before. I am still happy with the wheels and tires that I took over a year to find and decide on.

Of course, there is only one word to describe my wheels after I got through with them: Smooth.

 

Great job. Nevr-Dull FTW.

 

Nice job.

 

nice job

 

wow..great job...gotta save this for later

 

looks fantastic..thanks for the guide

 

liquid wax for the lip huh, maybe i should give that a try

 

I think your wheels are cleaner on the inside than mine are on the outside.....nice job.

 

what tires are those btw?

 

They're BFG kdw's.

I'm going to have to buy some Wheel Wax. Seems a lot of people swear by it, so I'll give it a try. It's supposed to keep the gunk off and allows me to easily clean the wheels.

 

Outstanding!

 

The Never Dull did a fantastic job. I'm going to try it on the inner barrel also. BTW, it works great on titanium also.

Great write-up

 

My wife told me the other day that they have tose magic sponges for wheels now. I think I might pick one up for on-the-spot cleaning. The wall works work magic! They wheels look sweet Dave.

 

I'm gonna take one of my wheels off tonight and try it. I'll post pic tomorrow.

 

Val, did you do it?

I spent last Friday detailing the car and put her up on jackstands again. The wheels were still pretty clean from when I did the heavy detailing that all I had to do was wash them down.

Then I went a little crazy and washed my inner wheel wells including the brake and suspension components.

It's a Z thing....