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Re: Winter wheel cleaning without a hose
This....
I've done this a few times and really works well.
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Opticlean is good at maintaining wheels as a waterless wash. Won't get tires prefect but will improve their look.
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I sure would love to see how dirty all these wheels you guys are talking about are... All the vehicles here at home could be maintained with a waterless wash and microfiber towels if I needed to. I’d like to see how dirty you’re talking about.
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Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
I sure would love to see how dirty all these wheels you guys are talking about are... All the vehicles here at home could be maintained with a waterless wash and microfiber towels if I needed to. I’d like to see how dirty you’re talking about.
I can't speak for the others, but this time of year the wheels and tires on our cars get really filthy. Brake dust is only a very small part of the problem. My wheels get caked on layers of salt, road grime, mud/cement spatters from wet pot holes, and run off from when the fields and landscaping flood onto the roads. Right now all the rain is dissolving the salt on the roads from earlier snow storms and it sprays EVERYWHERE. All of that crud becomes a hard, gray, gritty, crust that forms on the wheels. I don't even try to remove it without a power washer or a good soak with a hose first. A waterless wash wouldn't be effective and a royal pain to attempt, IMHO.
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Re: Winter wheel cleaning without a hose
Originally Posted by Desertnate
I can't speak for the others, but this time of year the wheels and tires on our cars get really filthy. Brake dust is only a very small part of the problem. My wheels get caked on layers of salt, road grime, mud/cement spatters from wet pot holes, and run off from when the fields and landscaping flood onto the roads. Right now all the rain is dissolving the salt on the roads from earlier snow storms and it sprays EVERYWHERE. All of that crud becomes a hard, gray, gritty, crust that forms on the wheels. I don't even try to remove it without a power washer or a good soak with a hose first. A waterless wash wouldn't be effective and a royal pain to attempt, IMHO.
Have you seen OrangeVee aka Pan the Orginizer’s latest video? His gf’s vehicle hadn’t been touched since November and has gone through “harsh Canadian winter” and it looked nearly flawless before he did a rinseless with plain old ONR. Explain that 1. Lol.
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Because Pan worked with Yvan and has all the secret ONR tricks
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Re: Winter wheel cleaning without a hose
Originally Posted by Desertnate
I can't speak for the others, but this time of year the wheels and tires on our cars get really filthy. Brake dust is only a very small part of the problem. My wheels get caked on layers of salt, road grime, mud/cement spatters from wet pot holes, and run off from when the fields and landscaping flood onto the roads. Right now all the rain is dissolving the salt on the roads from earlier snow storms and it sprays EVERYWHERE. All of that crud becomes a hard, gray, gritty, crust that forms on the wheels. I don't even try to remove it without a power washer or a good soak with a hose first. A waterless wash wouldn't be effective and a royal pain to attempt, IMHO.
I agree totally!! I might attempt a waterless or rinseless AFTER the wheels have been pressure washed, but not before so at that point it seems a little futile to not just use a bucket and give them a full wash.
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Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
Have you seen OrangeVee aka Pan the Orginizer’s latest video? His gf’s vehicle hadn’t been touched since November and has gone through “harsh Canadian winter” and it looked nearly flawless before he did a rinseless with plain old ONR. Explain that 1. Lol.
The latest one I can find on his youtube page is from a week ago--a white Mazda. If that's the one you are talking about it is almost clean even before he started. I think what Desertnate is talking about up here in the Northeast is a black car that after a couple of weeks looks white from all the road salt deposits.
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Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
Have you seen OrangeVee aka Pan the Orginizer’s latest video? His gf’s vehicle hadn’t been touched since November and has gone through “harsh Canadian winter” and it looked nearly flawless before he did a rinseless with plain old ONR. Explain that 1. Lol.
That is an easy one to answer. We all know that Canada is a friendly country filled with very polite, easy going, people. The same must be true for their winter road conditions. The grime doesn't want to impose on the wheels and politely flings off as the car goes down the road. Meanwhile, where I live, it's typical midwestern US: harsh, cynical, stubborn and gritty with just a touch of, "Screw you!"
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Re: Winter wheel cleaning without a hose
Originally Posted by ski2
The latest one I can find on his youtube page is from a week ago--a white Mazda. If that's the one you are talking about it is almost clean even before he started. I think what Desertnate is talking about up here in the Northeast is a black car that after a couple of weeks looks white from all the road salt deposits.
We get plenty of that too in the depths of winter, but right now we've had some snow and ice a few weeks ago followed by days of mist topped off with torrential rain and localized flooding. All of that leaves a nasty brownish-gray, gritty mess on the roads that will be around for a few more rains. The stuff gets sprayed all over your car and when it dries it leaves the surface feeling like fine grain sandpaper. Wheels and lower body panels get the worst of it.
Whether it's the salt crust you mention, or the Spring-time swill we're dealing with now, it's still tough to remove and beyond what I'd even think of attacking with a waterless wash alone.
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