cleaning wheels: Swissvax and Sonax Tar Remover

Cars with big brakes or performance cars in general will create more brake dust.
This means the wheels are harder to clean and more advanced products are a must and needed.

sometimes even wheel cleaners with acid will NOT clean the wheel completely.
This is a guide exactly for this problem.

for best results remove the wheel.



Pictures before cleaning
as can be seen, it looks like the brake dust is since a long time on the wheel.

Before

Before

Step 1: Swissvax Wheel Cleaner Forte , Swissvax Brush
Clean the wheel, use the Swissvax Brush: you wont get stuck with the Swissvax brush between the spokes, because the handguard is a rubber part and not plastic.

The purpose is to CLEAN the wheel, not to get rid of baked in brake dust.

Swissvax Wheel Cleaner Forte

Swissvax Brush

as can be seen, there is still some dirt / brake dust left on the wheel.

2. get rid of baked in brake dust / dirt around the wheel lug nut area

Now its time for the details, the product for this purpose is "SONAX Teerentferner".
do NOT use it on hot surface, READ instructions!
a normal Polish applied by hand did NOT work.

up to the task!

Before, still dirt in the wheel lug nut area

just spray it on and wipe off.

after.

after

before

3. Condition the paint: Car Shampoo, Gloria FM10 FoamMaster

with Meguiars Gold Class Shampoo

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Swissvax Brush