Chrome Wheels



If you`ve ever seen a brilliant shine on a wheel with a mirror like finish, you were probaly looking at chrome. Although a chrome wheel looks great when clean, they are very hard to maintain and keep looking new. Chrome is easily damaged by brake dust and road debris. Use a product that doesn’t contain harsh solvents, petroleum distillates or ammonia Chrome wheels should not be used in the winter. It is extremely soft finish and once you get a chip in the finish, water, salt corrosion etc can easily get under the chrome plating causing it to fail.



1. Clean wheel surface with P21S Total Auto Wash



2. Remove any road tar (bitumen) using Optimum Power Clean â„¢



3. For normal brake dust clean surfaces with P21S Wheel Cleaner, a mild balanced pH cleaner



4. For badly brake dust soiled surfaces use Aquartz IronX (see note 1) formulated with neutralised acid salt. Spray onto wheel surface; allow reacting, and then agitating with a wheel brush before hosing off.



5. Use P21S® Polishing Soap – formulated with polishing clay and soap flakes, a mild wheel cleaner that`s pH balanced acid free, water based detergent, thus making it simple, gentle, and effective. Its primary function is to return metal to its stock finish. It will remove a lot of the tarnish from the finish, along with any other contaminants. It can also be used on lightly tarnished aluminium, exhaust tips, or any other tarnished metals. Simply wet the sponge with clean water and squeeze the sponge to create lather and then begin polishing, finally rinse with clean water.



6. P21S® Finish Restorer - this product is primarily a polish, used for metals to refine their finish as opposed to a cleaning product to remove contaminants from metal finishes. These two products can be used together, first using the polishing soap and then the finish restorer. Finish restorer can be used on its own on metal that is only lightly tarnished.



7. Using a wheel bush (Daytona Speed Master Wheel Brush ) to agitate cleaning product will make them more effective and help to get into hard to reach places



8. Protect the surface with a polymer sealant (ZoopSeal, Zaino, Rejex, or etc)





Notes:



DO NOT attempt to clean hot wheels surfaces; allow cooling down time, otherwise you may cause structural damage to the wheels and cause the rotors and/or callipers to warp, making them inoperative



Caution – do not use acidic or neutralized acid products on compromised (i.e. curbed, flaking or pitted chrome) as they will damage the nickel coating underneath, causing plating failure. Chrome plating is applied over nickel; which provides the reflectivity and most of the corrosion resistance. The plating is exceptionally thin, measured in microns



Do not use the same towels for both bodywork and wheel surfaces. It’s better to earmark separate towels for the wheels



Use Caution - braking efficiency is reduced after washing the wheels / brakes. This could cause an accident. For this reason, following a car wash, drive with particular care until the brakes are dry.