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Waterless Wash Painted Wheels?


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So living on campus at school I don't have any access to a hose, so i'm going to start using a rinsless wash, and waterless wash method for the car. Now i also have painted and clear coated wheels with a polished lip so i like maintaining them to the same quality as the paint.

 

My question is. Being painted and clear coated they are suseptible to swirl marks like the rest of the paint, what would be the best route to go with for cleaning them? Since brake dust is usually a bit more harmful than just regular dust/dirt i want to be a bit more careful.

 

I am going to get a bucket i can fill up in my room, but i don't really like the idea of mixing the bucket i use for my paint with brake dust. (will get more buckets later, but i'm allocating a mjaority of my funds for my upcoming supercharger installation). I have plenty of microfiber towels though. If its important I use Hawk HPS pads.

 

Here are pics of the wheels.

 

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Unfortunately i looked around and there aren't any of the self serve car washes anywhere around here, otherwise that would have been my top option. Its a private college tucked into a small part of the bay area (really nice part, but secluded). And since its a small campus there aren't really any ways to get access to a hose.

 

So like Chris05GTO mentioned i was thinking of either the regular waterless wash or rinseless wash, just wanted to see if anyone else had an out of the box idea or experience like this.

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I Would NOT cross contaminate wheel buckets with paint buckets, or towels used on wheels with towels used on paint. Even if you do good laundry methods.

 

You can get a second smaller cheaper bucket for dedicated rinseless washing of wheels for 3 dollars at Home Depot, it's not a big investment.

 

It's a tip I encourage often and got from Larry Kosilla, wheel tools/buckets/towels should be for wheel/tire/fender cleaning only and separate from wash buckets.

 

Brake dust is metallic, you don't want to risk ever bringing it to your paint

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I Would NOT cross contaminate wheel buckets with paint buckets, or towels used on wheels with towels used on paint. Even if you do good laundry methods.

 

You can get a second smaller cheaper bucket for dedicated rinseless washing of wheels for 3 dollars at Home Depot, it's not a big investment.

 

It's a tip I encourage often and got from Larry Kosilla, wheel tools/buckets/towels should be for wheel/tire/fender cleaning only and separate from wash buckets.

 

Brake dust is metallic, you don't want to risk ever bringing it to your paint

Never planned to cross them. I have certain microfibers for wheels and others for the paint, i even wash them separately.

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You should be fine with waterless wash, as long as its not too filthy. I too use waterless wash on my wheels once a week, though its not Adam's. It works like a detail spray, but a lot safer, due to higher lubricity.

The car doesn't get driven a whole lot since i live on campus and work from my computer i only ever drive the car when i want to, and thats usually on weekends. So a majority of it is collected dust, but when i do drive it i hit mountain back roads so i do go heavy on the braking over there, still shouldn't be too much compared to dirt.

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You can spray on a wheel cleaner (DWC, GWC, or pre-mixed Adam's Car Wash in a spray bottle), scrub, then rinse off with Rinseless wash (mixed at wash strenth) in a pump-up sprayer.  You can do the same for the cleaning the tires - spray on APC, scrub with Tire brush, and rinse with the sprayer.  I did this with 2 older muscle cars this weekend - the owners did not want a hose used to wash the car, so I skipped using the hose on the wheels too.

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You can spray on a wheel cleaner (DWC, GWC, or pre-mixed Adam's Car Wash in a spray bottle), scrub, then rinse off with Rinseless wash (mixed at wash strenth) in a pump-up sprayer.  You can do the same for the cleaning the tires - spray on APC, scrub with Tire brush, and rinse with the sprayer.  I did this with 2 older muscle cars this weekend - the owners did not want a hose used to wash the car, so I skipped using the hose on the wheels too.

Thats a really good idea. I might have to try that. Will just have to move it away from the other cars to not get any of the overspray on them (and so i have more room) but that won't be an issue at all. Could literally pull it up right next to my building.

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