clean your wheels........

[182_blue]

doest this attract dust and crap ?

A bit

especially in the summer 

[stevieC]

I always use wd40 to clean and protect my monza 2s,and they still look like new.

[Cass]

I personally would not use WD40 or any other liquid spray to maintain my wheels in case it penetrated the lacquer and then lifted the finish. I wash mine regularly with Meguires Gold Class car wash and that's it. I have no brake dust or corrosion issues (yet ). I do recall that when I had my Boxster it was recommended that after washing, they should be given a light coating of vaseline (or did I read that somewhere else)

Cass

[TagnuT]

I personally would not use WD40 or any other liquid spray to maintain my wheels in case it penetrated the lacquer and then lifted the finish. I wash mine regularly with Meguires Gold Class car wash and that's it. I have no brake dust or corrosion issues (yet ). I do recall that when I had my Boxster it was recommended that after washing, they should be given a light coating of vaseline (or did I read that somewhere else)

Cass

Oooh sorry you meant the wheels   :embarassed: :embarassed: :embarassed:

[duzza]

I always use wd40 to clean and protect my monza 2s,and they still look like new.

 

[duzza]

doest this attract dust and crap ?

A bit

especially in the summer 

Less essentiali the summer. The layer od WD40 stops the salt getting under the laquer so it' not a biggy to leave it off in the summer. Apply October to March.

[The Wheel Man]

I cant imagine that a bit of WD40 is going to stop the 'white worms'  These 'worms' are where moisture finds a hole in the laquer and then will drive itself under the laquer as it corrodes the unpretected alloy undeneath.  Once you have a hole in the laquer (caused by 1001 different things) its pretty much unstoppable..

We conducted an experiment at work a few years back.  We had an old wheel machined on the face and laquered.  We then treated the wheel in 4 quatrers (1 no product, 2 car polish, 3 wd40 type oil, 4 this wheel protector product we were testing)  We then dropped a few small stones onto the face of the wheel (to speed up the inevitable stone chips) and left the wheel outside for 12 weeks.  Now even though the wheel was not washed in that time, it also was not subject to road salt and hot brake dust (which will also penetrate the laquer)  After the 12 weeks we washed the wheel and all 4 parts of the wheel were showing roughly the same severity of corrosion aroung the stone chips.

I think that the unfortunate truth is that to have a Monza II last in the Uk for longer it to have them re laquered tith LOTS of extra layres and never leave a stone chip unsealed!!!! 

Can you guess who's got a problem with his wheels and the dealer doesnt want to know!!!!   

[Kermit]

I  use autoglym wheel clean (great for shifting brake dust easily) and then autoglym wheel polish - surely if these products caused any form of corrosion they would not be available.  I also take wheels off once a year (well not on the golf as not had it that long) and clean them properly. Never thought about using WD40 - I don't even use this on my push bike!  i suspect the only way to protect the Monza's fully is it take em off - wrap em in cotton wool and put them in the spare room in the bed and give em a nice cup of cocoa oh and fit some CID style steelies - which would look  but at least not having to worry about how they are cleaned and treated 

[neg]

Wheel man, can you recondition Monza II's ?

[The Wheel Man]

Wheel man, can you recondition Monza II's ?

Not personally but i can point you in the right direction if needed.  We use a company that will put a nice thick layre of laquer on the hweels and you can tell the difference just by looking.  They wont necessarily be the cheapest but they will be good quality and i think they warrant a polished area for 12 months.......