PolandDogs

Those tires.... but the wheels are pretty bling too. 

If my TPMS sensors come this week I will get these mounted and balanced on Friday :-)

Dave - we should hold this information hostage until we get some pics of these wheels.....
 

Hey Matt, CCW's are beautiful when taken care of, so keep after them regularly. If you let them go, the amount of work to get them back is mind boggling!
People say owning a black car in itself is a hobby, a black car has nothing on the care required for raw billet aluminum wheels.
 
When washing these wheels simply use Adam's Car Shampoo mixed at 2 ounces product to 3 gallons warm water. If you allow the wheels to get any dirtier than needing the car Shampoo, you're going to need to wash them more often, not with a stronger chemical. It's also a good idea to have a wash pad and wheel brush that's dedicated to these wheels and nothing else. On the car with my CCW's the wheels are washed last, and one wheel at a time.
Dry them thoroughly and completely immediately after rinsing the shampoo mixture off. Even pure distilled water will leave spots on these wheels. The less you touch the wheels the better, dry them with a Master Blaster or Side Kick.
After every drive, after the wheels have cooled down, I wipe them down with Waterless Wash and an individual Waterless Wash Towel per wheel. Spray the Waterless Wash liberally, not enough, and you'll be inducing little scratches.
 
Get yourself a 16 ounce bottle of Adam's Metal Polish #2, wouldn't hurt to have that size of Metal Polish #1 either, you'll be using a lot of it for maintenance. I tend to use Adam's Wax or Sealant applicators to work the polish as they have the least amount of cut of all his applicators and won't induce any marring of their own. I've also used his Edgeless Utility towels to work the polish with okay results. I'll cut the towel into quarters, and use one of the cut quarters per wheel and throw them away when done. Metal Polish is a bear to clean out of a towel or applicator and makes quite a mess. The only disadvantage to the Edgeless Utility towels are they will leave strike marks in the aluminum. I prefer to remove the polish with a very fine and high quality flannel towel. Flannel isn't very absorbent and is quite a bit of work, but it won't leave the strike marks I get with microfiber.
Learn to love this position!
LOL

Oh, and it's so much easier to polish these when you can rotate the tire/wheel.
 

Thanks everybody for the comments...I think I am just going to stick to using car shampoo for a cleaner...they wont get neglected nor see a whole lot of road time...time to go order my black Friday order :-)

Thanks everybody for the comments...I think I am just going to stick to using car shampoo for a cleaner...they wont get neglected nor see a whole lot of road time...time to go order my black Friday order :-)

I can't say for sure on either wheel cleaner but I would test it first on something else. Some wheel cleaners will etch raw aluminum right before your eyes. They can be polished but it is hours of work caused by seconds of contact with the wrong chemicals. As the others said, WW, DS, car shampoo, or RW would all be safe and effective if you keep up with it! The trick is to not let them be neglected because the contaminants left on the surface will cause pitting and etching and again cause lots of polishing to get them back.

I have a feeling Dave (BRZN) will post up in here in the morning, as he has a set of gorgeous CCW SP550's on his GTO that I'm going to steal borrow one day...but I digress...
 
For light cleaning after driving to a show, Waterless Wash just like Chris said would be my choice too, but I would want to use the softest towel I could find for wiping down raw aluminum, so I would go with our Double Soft Towels over the new plush waffle weaves that we launched earlier this week.
 
As for the Green Wheel Cleaner, I haven't tried it on a raw billet wheel, but you may have similar slight hazing issues that Dave describes in one of his threads here when he used Deep Wheel Cleaner to clean raw billet aluminum wheels: http://www.adamsforums.com/topic/23468-dwc-and-raw-billet-aluminum/

PICTURES!

Sounds good to me.  I'd think from your post that green wheel cleaner may never really be needed.  I generally hit my "nice weather only wheels" with waterless wash, then detail spray, and randomly quick sealant.  But yeah to throw glaze or waxes into the mix won't hurt bit every now and then.  

Sounds like you have a good plan of attack, the only thing that I would do different is follow up with MP2 after MP1.
As far as getting the dust off after a drive to a show I would use WW and follow up with BG.

All I can say is these products live up to the hype! Here was my process for this car and results below...
 
1.) Wash/Dry
2.) Clay
3.) Wash/Dry
4.) VRT all trim
5.) Brillant Glaze
6.) Americana Americana Americana, so good you have to say it three times!
7.) VRT the tires
 

Yes.

That is personally what I do with my garage queen. Results were great. You can see my write up here: http://www.adamsforums.com/topic/28230-first-use-with-adams-on-a-camaro-zl1/

Thought I'd share this 50/50 shot of a paint correction I did on a motorcycle a few weeks back. Used the Porta cable 7424 and 4in orange foam pad.

You'll get amazing results with taping off the stripes and utilizing the Cyclo.  I had one deep scratch in the front of the hood between the stripes and was able to completely remove it by taping it off and using the Cyclo.  
 

 

^^^What he said.  LOL.  Tape them off and then hit that space with your Cyclo...you'll be good to go!

Tape off the stripes and go to town with the Cyclo.
 
Don't tilt a DA polisher LOL this isnt a rotary, you want even pressure on the pads to keep the rotation

I agree with taping them off.  You can always do that area by hand using paint correcting and paint finishing polish.  A microfiber applicator will give you a little more bite or simply a foam applicator pad.

When you are taping the strips leave a bit of over hang by about an 1/8th of an inch.

No sweat for a WV boy.....   Enjoy your Cyclo!

Not if they are matte vinyl, if gloss vinyl maybe Revive by hand, as a cleaner would probably be all I'd use on them if anything. 

Congrats Matt!

I was there and bought me some goodies

I was there also, I bought some goodies while I was there I just cant seem to say no. I also won first place in my class with the RMR (Red Mustang Registry) they had their own little judged car show.....