Wheel and guard cleaning

[Shale]

Thought I would share

Just bought a can of CRC engine degreaser for the driveway, and a can of CRC mag wheel cleaner for the Subies.

Driveway after three applications and some severe scrubbing is almost completely free of oil. And the wheels of all the cars...wow!

The stuff is excellent. It foams on evenly, soaks up all the dirt and allows you to effortlessly clean off all the sh!t with a chux cloth or the like.

Unfortunately it doesn't remove the crap from the pits - one set of wheels of mine is very badly pitted - but the wheels and tyres are obnoxiously shiny, clean and new-looking otherwise Certainly beats scrubbing!

Anyone else had much fun with other similar products? I was considering the Armourall stuff (though I'm not THAT enthused, they are an okay brand but not remarkable) and the Mothers stuff (sooooo expensive), but the CRC seemed to have less DO NOT PUT ON THIS, DO NOT PUT ON THAT scrawled down the back than the others.

[Guest]

I bought a spray bottle of Repco's own brand wheel cleaner and it worked a treat. Sprayed it on, let sit a few minutes, just wiped gently with a rag and hosed off. They came up real neat. Reasonably priced too.

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AFTER

[MercuryFree]

Last time I cleaned rims I used that FW1 CLEANING WAX MAGICAL HAX SPRAY LIQUID GOLD WITCHCRAFT that they hock outside the warehouse and whatnot.

Worked suprisingly well

[dubbedup]

Cleaning - its for girls ;D

[Guest]

 nic9191 said:

I bought a spray bottle of Repco's own brand wheel cleaner and it worked a treat. Sprayed it on, let sit a few minutes, just wiped gently with a rag and hosed off. They came up real neat. Reasonably priced too.

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AFTER

did you clean the car with it aswell or was your white balance wrong? coz ur car changes colour

-smurff

[Guest keltik]

I use a wet rag and my rims look nice again....never had the problem of brake dust sticking to the paint but i do wax my rims with the rest of the car

[Treecrusher]

I just clean my wheels along with the rest of the car every Saturday morning. Wheels clean up nice with just normal old car wash that way

[Guest]

I'll have to try this cos my rims are filthy and regular car wash just isn't cutting it.

[Bumpty]

 Treecrusher said:

I just clean my wheels along with the rest of the car every Saturday morning. Wheels clean up nice with just normal old car wash that way

Even on seedy Saturday mornings!!

[Guest]

 smurff said:

did you clean the car with it aswell or was your white balance wrong? coz ur car changes colour

-smurff

No it must have just been the angle I had the camera towards the sun. I just took it in a rush to get the car off the road lol

[kwikaus]

i have tryed a few diffrent products like crc, mothers, repco which i herad some where come out of the mothers factory and have found that the soapy water ( i use a couple drops of sunlight dish wash liqud) and a rag works just as good as the products and saving some hard eraned cash in the process. if i want the tyres to shine a deep black i use a basic silicone based spray.

[Guest]

ive heard dishwashing liquid is very bad for car paint, so wont touch it myself

got the crc stuff atm, it does the trick

-smurff

[Shale]

Dishwashing liquid is designed to remove grease and oil, not grime and road dirt. It leaves on a fair few contaminants, but removes your wax...

Proper car wash products are designed to strip road crap and contaminants off (but can't get them all - which is why they invented claybar systems), but to leave most of your wax behind to continue protecting your paint.

As for wheels...the CRC range of products is both cheap and extremely effective. Haven't bothered looking at my favourite Mothers brand because it's more than twice the price and it's hard to be more effective.

[gazzy2000]

whenever i buy a car i always do it completely with CRC paint doctor.

CRC paint doctor is an "oh so" gental cuting and waxing compound. It restores paint and gets rid of scuffs, light scratches and gives a deep as shine too. Its safe-as for clear coats.

For realy bad paint you can feel the paint work soak up the wax like moisturiser, so sometimes you have to do it twice.

I normally do a turtle wax on top afterwards too for extra protection.

http://www.crcind.com.au/catalogue.nsf/web_brands/Re-Po+Paint+Doctor?openDocument

its $20 a tube

[myoko]

acid but not too strong, also never used on chrom wheels. being car groomer before

[WRXER]

Sounds like a goer Shale, I have a set of wheels that haven't been cleaned for 16 months due to the car getting caged. Came up not bad after my last clean with the CRC stuff but there is some seriously nasty brake dust that refuses to come off, however I didn't scrub majorly as I couldn't be assed. Will get back on here with how my attempt #2 will go.

[dubbedup]

you people actaully wash your cars, funny....