Killed my wheels with love :(

[mistertee]

I've been washing my rims regularly with bilberry juice and an alloy wheel brush.  I've inspected them today and realised that the brush has left lost of small scratches on the black painted part of the wheel.

It looks like it can be fixed with some polish, anyone recommend one to use on alloys?  Keep hearing about Poorboys black hole being good.

[peterdoherty]

I've been washing my rims regularly with bilberry juice and an alloy wheel brush.  I've inspected them today and realised that the brush has left lost of small scratches on the black painted part of the wheel.

It looks like it can be fixed with some polish, anyone recommend one to use on alloys?  Keep hearing about Poorboys black hole being good.

PB BH is a decent glaze with some filling properties and is easy to use. Not sure how durable it would be on wheels thought but maybe if you used a good wheel sealant on top it would last?

Get yourself a set of wheel woolies for cleaning the wheels - theyre nearly £40 but well worth it.

[Booth11]

As above.  Black hole certainly masks minor swirls and scratches.  I've only used it on bodywork, not wheels, but found it to be reasonably durable when topped off with decent wax.  Why not try it and apply 2/3 coats of PB wheel sealant on top, see how it goes.

I switched to wheel woollies a while ago and much better and kinder on my Glendales than other wheel brushes.  Bought the set of 3 and find them all useful, the very small one is great for getting into the holes on the honeycomb grill.

[mistertee]

Thanks guys. My wheels already have c5 on them so how would that work? Would i have to strip that off first (which i think is impossible)

Is black hole applyable by hand? I don't have a machine

[peterdoherty]

Thanks guys. My wheels already have c5 on them so how would that work? Would i have to strip that off first (which i think is impossible)

Is black hole applyable by hand? I don't have a machine

You probably have only scratched the C5 layer then. C5 (which is the same as C1 and C4 btw) can only be removed by machine polishing (I think) - you'd be best asking gtechinq themselves either by dropping them an email or over on their section on detailing world.
If it is just the C5 layer I'm not sure how you could go about repairing but a polish with a filler (i.e. PB BH) could probably just be applied but would not last long I think.

BH can be done by hand.

[mistertee]

I hadn't actually considered that the scratching might be on the c5 itself.  That's some tough stuff.

Thanks for the help peterdoherty.