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Guitarman · 08-17-03, 04:33

One of my longtime customers, a lawyer with (at the time) a new BMW Z3, decided to clean his polished 18" M wheels in between my vists with Armor-All Quicksilver wheel cleaner, only he (ironically-being a lawyer) never read the fine print about use on polished wheels and to spray on only when the wheels were cool. He sprayed them on hot to warm wheels, and sprayed all 4 at once and went inside for ~10 minutes. Came out to find his very $$$ wheels streaked in yellow etched runs. They were toast.

I believe Quicksilver was pulled off the shelves due to litigation (so I've been told) and the product was reformulated, but...it's still likely has hydroflouric acid in it to some extent. I don't use it so I can't say for certain.

Sorry this happened to you, nice of you to warn others.

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Guitarman Registered User Guitarman is offline Join Date: May 2001 Location: Ormond Beach Florida Posts: 228	One of my longtime customers, a lawyer with (at the time) a new BMW Z3, decided to clean his polished 18" M wheels in between my vists with Armor-All Quicksilver wheel cleaner, only he (ironically-being a lawyer) never read the fine print about use on polished wheels and to spray on only when the wheels were cool. He sprayed them on hot to warm wheels, and sprayed all 4 at once and went inside for ~10 minutes. Came out to find his very $$$ wheels streaked in yellow etched runs. They were toast. I believe Quicksilver was pulled off the shelves due to litigation (so I've been told) and the product was reformulated, but...it's still likely has hydroflouric acid in it to some extent. I don't use it so I can't say for certain. Sorry this happened to you, nice of you to warn others. __________________ 1989 Thunderbird Supercoupe. Black, Chrome Cobra R's, some mods. 1993 Miata, red. ( big surprise ) 1998 Lexus GS400, pearl white, navigation, HID's.