Seeing as I use my car every day and about a month, six weeks ago the roads were full of rocksalt. Couple that with sub zero temps I just never got round to washing the car and I certainly will not take it to a roadside car wash :nono:

I notice the wheels were getting more and more filthy and of course I knew this was salt :thumbdown:

Oh deary dear ruined :mad:

A bit of soap and water - a complete waste of time :huh:

Fear not - look at them now :thumbup:

20 mins on each one and I have them back beautiful again - all shiny shiny

How is all done? Well I have posted before, good old fashioned brillo and elbow grease, other products I find a bit lame, I have even used acid but it is the brillo that works best for my wheels - so don't knock me - again!!!!

You will see they were pretty 'caked', I don't see how I would of got them clean otherwise.

Good work salt ruins any nice paint or polished finish. Glad you was able to bring them back

Its a pita isnt it. mine need doing again after one trip out :(

Well sorted mate never thought of useing a brillo pad to clean up the alloys did you use a chrome cleaner after it?

use rain x or similar after you cleaned them as it will stop the sh1t from clinging to the wheels

Nice bit of restoration there! My old set did the same but my current work wheels are a different style finish and don't suffer from it :)

I have tried all sorts to clean them and then to polish them but nothing works better than the soapy pad and then no polish or anything applied after :wink:

Don't think they could of been any more salty and if I can just bring them back like I have done then why bother with fancy products :rockon:

Takes me longer to clean mine as I have 18s :tt2:

Takes me longer to clean mine as I have 18s :tt2:

 

F**k u!!!! :xxx:

 

If I would of bought them I would of plumped for 18's myself but the car is lowered and I am more than happy with the stance so it's not beating me up.

 

If some came up and especially deep dish all round I would be finding it hard to resist :cool3: