Help baked on brake dust!

[toofast]

Well save the... you should have cleaned them more often.

It has been well below freezing for the last month and any use of water would cause instant ice.

my problem is I have caked on brake dust especially on my front wheels that no matter what I try nothing will remove.

thus far I have used mequires gold class wheel cleaner with no results, simple green no results, wd-40 with no results, several trips to the preasure washer and nothing will budge it....

The only thing that seemed to make a dent was and SOS pad however I quickly stoped using it as it was Fin up the clear coat.


Help

[ncdave]

I cringed when you mentioned the SOS. Use Wesley's Bleech White spray. It's cheap, available pretty much everywhere and absolutely melts the brake dust away. It is extremely caustic however and is meant primarily for cleaning whitewalls or white letter tires but works a treat on serious brake dust problems. Just spray it on, wait a bit, scrub with just a sponge and your usual car wash soap and hose off under pressure. Everything should be right again - I've used it many times after finding myself in the same position you're in. I would wax the wheels afterwards as it will make future cleanups that much easier.

Good luck!

[obehave]

Castrol Super Clean, same as above. Cut it 2:1. Rinse immediately and only do sections of the rim and pre moisten them.

[speedynz]

Wonder Wheels is so far ahead of normal wheel cleaners it's just not funny, available everwhere, won't eat your hands, bank balance or wheels, it's only hungry for brake dust, brilliant stuff.

[Windshadow]

Quote: Originally Posted by speedynz

Wonder Wheels is so far ahead of normal wheel cleaners it's just not funny, available everwhere, won't eat your hands, bank balance or wheels, it's only hungry for brake dust, brilliant stuff.

The Wonder Wheels Cleaning Kit sounds good based on the WhatCar review and others I have read... has anyone found a Web Based stocklist on this side of the pond for it?

[speedynz]

Oh right your in the U.S. and I didn't bother looking when I said that wonder Wheels was available everywhere, sorry!!
On the up side I know it's available over there as I'm in N.Zealand and looked for it here with no luck but some U.S. web sites came up during a search

[stu D]

Quote: Originally Posted by speedynz

Wonder Wheels is so far ahead of normal wheel cleaners it's just not funny, available everwhere, won't eat your hands, bank balance or wheels, it's only hungry for brake dust, brilliant stuff.

I'll second that, don't know what they put in it but it'll clean wheels in any state!

I was cleaning the MINI once and poured too much WW into the little cup. Not wanting to waste it I decided to clean one of my neighbours wheels (BMW 3 Series which probably hadn't been washed in years!!!). When I went back inside and looked out the window, all I could see was this one shiny wheel, it made the rest of the car look really dirty

A few days later, he had got it professionally cleaned!

Stu D

[graham D]

Quote: Originally Posted by stu D

I'll second that, don't know what they put in it but it'll clean wheels in any state!

I was cleaning the MINI once and poured too much WW into the little cup. Not wanting to waste it I decided to clean one of my neighbours wheels (BMW 3 Series which probably hadn't been washed in years!!!). When I went back inside and looked out the window, all I could see was this one shiny wheel, it made the rest of the car look really dirty

A few days later, he had got it professionally cleaned!

Stu D

I'm not just agreeing with Stu because he's my brother , Wonderwheels is magic. I'd tried some other stuff from halfords and it was lots of hard work and not such a great result. So it's WW now and it really does the business.

Also, it's worth getting some wax or polymer-based stuff to put on the wheels after you've cleaned them (my local Halfords only seemed to have their own brand, but it's ok so far) - stops the brake dust sticking quite so much.

Graham D