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    to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    i have been using various wheel cleaners over the last year, but i have beed avoiding acid bassed cleaner. now that i am getting busy i am looking to speed up the wheel cleaning process. i am looking to use Wheel Brightener on my newer cars with factory wheels.

    are there any horror storied with this product? anything that needs to be avoided? what product should i use to neutralize the acid once the wheels are clean?

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    If you seal or coat your wheels, all you really need is soap and water for the most part. You could then deep clean a few times a year.

    Unless you are working on vehicles on the side.

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt@Revive View Post

    now that i am getting busy i am looking
    to speed up the wheel cleaning process.

    i am looking to use Wheel Brightener
    Are you talking about Meguiar's D140?
    If so, then:





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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    I vote for not.

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by Matt@Revive View Post

    are there any horror storied with this product? anything that needs to be avoided? what product should i use to neutralize the acid once the wheels are clean?
    I've never experienced a horror story..
    You should avoid the same exact kind of wheels you would when using Megs D143 Acid Free Wheel & Tire Cleaner [bare aluminum wheels] as they'll both mess up the same kind of wheels.
    Both are meant to be used on factory clearcoated wheels. D140 is stronger, so you might be able to get away with spray on spray off [especially if you use a power washer] Make sure the wheels are cool before using.
    Invest in some disposable masks if you're going to be cleaning wheels & tires in high volume.
    As long as you're responsible to those few details, there's no reason to not use D140 Wheel Brightener. It'll speed your process up when you run into dirty wheels.👍🏽

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    @OP:

    The dangers (to humans), that's associated
    with Ammonium Biflouride...is not worth the
    risk of ever using D140!!

    Sure...
    You may wish to speed-up the
    wheel-cleaning process(es);
    but, there's an old saying with
    which I'll take poetic liberty:

    "Sometimes...
    a SPEED(y) product could actually KILL"



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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    What other wheel cleaners have that?

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by uhohitsstevo View Post
    What other wheel cleaners have that?
    There are a number; there even used to be OTC ones. One time many years ago I was in Target looking at some wheel cleaners, and they had a carpet runner in front of the shelf of auto supplies, which they didn't have anywhere else, and I'm standing on it, and there's like a 2-year old kid toddling along behind me running ahead of her parents, and I'm reading the contents on the bottle of wheel cleaner and it says "ammonium bifluoride"...and I put this all together in my head. I'm standing on a runner that's there in case customers drop a bottle of tire shine...or wheel cleaner, so who knows what I'm standing in, could be ammonium bifluoride wheel cleaner, and here's a little kid running around behind me. It was a bad scene, and I really wondered why Target was selling a wheel cleaner like that, I mean at least at Autozone there usually aren't 2 yo's running up and down the aisles.

    Anyway.

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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by uhohitsstevo View Post
    What other wheel cleaners have that?
    Quite a few; but not as many
    as there used to be.

    Here's a similar one, though:




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    Re: to use Meguiar's Wheel Brightener, or not?

    Quote Originally Posted by FUNX650 View Post
    Quite a few; but not as many
    as there used to be.

    Here's a similar one, though:




    Bob
    Which 1 is that? Eagle 1 Spoke & Wire Cleaner? I used to love that stuff way back when I bought my 1st car It's similar to Meguiars Hot Wheels Chrome & Wire Cleaner, which is in turn very similar to Wheel Brightener.

    Btw, how "safe" is D143 Non Acid Wheel & Tire Cleaner in comparison? Because they Both register a "3" level health hazard on the label.. D143 also gets level 1 flammable whereas Wheel Brightener is not flammable level 0.

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