Alloy Wheel Care

As anybody who's stepped into a motor factors in the last 10 years will tell you, there's a huge variety of specialist alloy wheel and chrome rim cleaners on the market, all designed to help make the job of cleaning your new rims that little bit easier, unfortunately the real key to a great finish is hard work.

Before you fit your alloy wheels, give them several coats of good quality car polish back and front. This will help prevent the road salt, brake dust and dirt 'keying' to the surface on first use. Be sure to treat the surface of your alloys as well, if not better, than you would your paintwork. Remember, you've spent a small fortune of your alloy wheels or chrome rims and they're going to be subject to the harshest conditions of just about any part of the car!w

Frequent washing with mildly soapy warm water [having hosed all the loose abrasive grit off first] is the best way to keep wheels clean. Never use abrasive cleansers, electric buffers or wire wool pads on your alloy wheels. Where possible let your wheels cool thoroughly before cleaning them and avoid car-wash wheel-cleaners at all times.

We are huge fans of deep-dish wheels with diamond-turned rims. If you've opted for diamond rims, there's a good possibility these will NOT have a lacquer coat on the rims and this is going to mean lots of polish and elbow-grease to keep the finish looking good.

Go the extra mile

Now your alloy wheels are clean and gleaming, lets make sure them tyres are looking the part too. We believe that jet black shiny tyres will just set off the finish of the chrome rims or alloy wheels just nicely.

Get yourself some tyre sheen, clean the wheels with a scrubbing pad and some washing up liquid, this is great for removing oil and grease from your tyres, rinse thoroughly and allow them to dry off, or you could wipe them dry yourself, now give them tyres a good 2-3 coats of tyre sheen.

Stand back and admire!