Cleaning Alloys after 20,000+ miles

[wrxmania]

Thanks all,

Used much of the MC2 on the engines and will keep it for that in future too.

Will go for good old soap and water

Brian

[wrxmania]

Well,

After 7 hours I have cleaned both sets of alloys up and they look pretty good if I don't say so myself. I could have spent another couple of hours T-Cut'ing scratches and stone chips away but no point as they'll only get chipped again anyway.

After the amount of effort not sure if it was really worth it but I did clean my calipers and got them to say "Subaru" again

After steam cleaning the entire interior last weekend its starting to look quite good - well, the wheels and interior are

Just need to make the car look less "used" - but why start now

Brian

[sma01]

Best cleaner I have used is Supagard, can buy it from most car dealers, think its quite pricey, but you get 2 parts, an alloy wheel cleaner and and alloy wheel protector... the protector is superb, sprayed it on when the wheels still had a few marks and left it for 5 mins, the rest of the marks then wiped of with a cloth...

[wrxmania]

Meant to say,

Another thing I have found to be useful for cleaning the build up (well, some) from inside the wheels is,

The ridiculously named,

Cillit Bang!