Alloy Deep Clean - Products and Advice?

[laudavis]

Hi Everyone!

I am going to get my best friend to take my alloys off my car in a couple of weeks so that they can be deep cleaned! There is a dark grey/green grease that came off the inside of the alloy when i last washed the car using some alloy cleaner. I did have a leaking shock absorber so i wonder if this grease may be from that - anyone have any ideas and also any product recommendations for cutting through the grease - my autoglym clean wheels didn't touch it!

Thanks

L xxx

 

[Bristle Hound]

@laudavis - Best product I've found for cleaning stubborn dirty wheels is CarPro IronX
http://www.carpro.uk.com/iron-x-500ml/

You may need 2 hits at it if the wheels are particularly bad, but this will shift it all IMO

 

[Matt@Slim'sDetailing]

I'd second that, it's the best selling wheel cleaner we have - for very good reason!

Ironx will tackle most of the job, it's PH balanced so won't damage the wheels either. However, given the strength of it, i'd recommend something like Valetpro Bilberry Wheel Cleaner for regular cleaning & Ironx for tougher jobs.

Hope this helps!

Matt.

 

[laudavis]

Thanks @Bristle Hound and @Matt@Slim'sDetailing - this will shift all the grease and stuff then? I ended up with it smeared all around my alloys! Here you go @Craigsquire - see above for our big job next weekend! Love LLxx

 

[Spaceman_RS3]

Sure you don't have a leaking gator on a cv joint there normally pack with a thick sticky greenish grease?

 

[desertstorm]

As above dark green grease is usually from a CV joint. White spirit will usually clean this off though.

 

[Spaceman_RS3]

Might be a split in gator or have popped off best checked though Laura or it will cost you a fair bit if the cv joint goes dry and eats itself.

 

[laudavis]

Hi @Spaceman_RS3 and @desertstorm - ill let Craig know and see if this makes any sense to him - as mechanically i have not got a clue - thanks for the heads up though guys - xxx

 

[AlexA4Avant]

Would say a bad CV gator pull the wheels off and just move them around and you may find the hole

 

[Luke2.0tdi2010]

Be prepared for the 'smell of a thousand rotting corpses'...lol
That stuff absolutely stinks.

 

[laudavis]

Hi guys so the alloys came off the Audi today and we found a crack in the gator! Must be where the grease was coming from, used auto finesse iron out to clean the wheels and they have come up good! Anyone know how expensive this is to repair? Xx

 

[AlexA4Avant]

Not to expensive but get a garage to do it as its a really messy job and I am a great believer in doing as much as I can myself

 

[laudavis]

 

[AlexA4Avant]

It will get worse but its not to bad

 

[laudavis]

Get it looked at pretty soon though? Don't know how long it's been weeping? X

 

[Spaceman_RS3]

Yea don't want it going dry plus it will only mess your wheel up again