Just cleaned my wheels and found those little hard baked on bits of brake pad failed to come with wheel cleaner and a wheel brush.
Then I had an idea, keeping the wheels wet with wheel cleaner I used an old credit card to gently scrape away the offending items.
It work a treat, you all may already know about this but I was so please I felt I had to share it.

Next time just use IronX 91 BMW 850CSI

^^^ Agreed

But as long as you are happy with the results, that's good. Personally, I'd not risk scratching my alloys (I leave that to mrs Bean ) with a credit card.

Products that I've found great at cleaning up wheels SAFELY are:
IronX
Sonax Extreme Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
P21 Red Power Gel

 ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

^^^ Agree too, but I find prevention is better than cure.

Off with the wheels, wash with washing up liquid, IronX, wash again, polish with Gtechniq P1, IPA wipe down, and seal with Gtechniq C5  FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
Ex 2006 RRS SC - garbage
Ex 2016 135i M Sport - dream car
Ex 2003 RS6 Avant - piece of cr*p
Ex 2014 320d X Drive, M Sport Touring - ok I guess
Ex 2007 RRS TDV8 - bloody loved it
EX 2007 FL2 XS - not so bad

and try a tar cleaner too,

just gave my car a going over and the 3M wheel cleaner didn't touch it, so i added Wolf's De-ironiser to the mix and that didn't budge it, so i brought out the Wonder Wheels Acid and they still remained stuck fast

got my final inch of AutoSmart tardis tar remover and its started to remove the spots, then it slowly disappeared in to the block driveway when i knocked the bottle over

Bradders wrote:

^^^ Agree too, but I find prevention is better than cure.

Too true  ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

i have been using Wolf chemicals clean and seal for the last year, very pleased, but had the dealers clean it just before xmas and i think they must have stripped it and this been its first proper was since then made it hard work

npinks wrote:

...............dealers clean it just before xmas ....................this been its first proper was since then made it hard work

Don't worry Nick I won't mention that over on DW, else you'll be lynched  ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

i know, i know the broken nilfisk didn't help and the extended "sod it its too cold to wash it" days

edit: I did, head down to the DIY jet wash armed with my pump sprayer filled with Magifoam and used there jetwash to jet it off and then spray wax and then spotless rinse

so its not been totally neglected

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I can't talk , mine has had a couple of post winter washes, but I need to spend a day getting back into a respectable condition......and Mrs bean wants hers doing 'properly' too

Oh, and I drove over some freshly painted road lines yesterday, which seem to have splattered nicely up the NS of the car......great  ON THE WAY: BMW F21 M140i
MERCEDES GL350 - Metallic Navy Blue w/Grey interior

GOING: BMW F31 335D MSport+ xDrive Touring
GONE: Land Rover Discovery 4 HSE - Stornaway Grey w/Black Interior (wish we'd kept it )
GONE: BMW F10 520D MSport - Carbon Black
GONE:MY12 RRS SDV6 HSE Sumatra/Ivory/Grand Black Privacy glass

Once you have got it clean...use something to make it easy to remove and clean regularly.

We are moving back to tar and flies to clean off now!! Mike

2014 Facelift Discovery

I wax my wheels after they have been cleaned. Easier to clean after

Good info guys, I also use a wax after wheel washing, this IronX stuff look good will get some and try it out next time. Cheers

What wax do you use? I usually clean then seal with Auto Glym Alloy Sealer - is it the same thing? 2013 (13.5MY) RRS HSE Black | Causeway Grey | Privacy | Ivory & Ebony | Grand Black Lacquer | Style 7 Alloys | AWESOME

RWA5H wrote:

I usually clean then seal with Auto Glym Alloy Sealer - is it the same thing?