WHY IS CLEANING WHEELS SO IMPORTANT?

First and foremost, cleaning and protecting your wheels is as much about maintenance and safety as it is aesthetics. This is because, if left for long enough, heavy fallout and other contaminants pose a very real threat to the alloy structure.

When you think about it too, your wheels and tyres are the only bit of your car to actually come in direct contact with the road. There’s no other part that has to stand up to such extreme contamination and temperature fluctuations, either. This is why the vast majority of wheels out there are painted or powdercoated; simply to offer the durability needed to make them practical all-year-round, in the most extreme weather conditions. This type of finishing is included on standard wheels, along with the vast majority of cast, flow-formed and forged aftermarket wheels. Protective paint, powdercoat and lacquer layers are applied - much like the paintwork which protects the metal panels on the rest of your car - to keep grime, road salt and other deposits away from the metal surfaces, preventing damage caused by oxidation. But, this only works up to a point. When it comes to harsh contaminants (particularly the ferrous deposits found in brake dust), when left for extended periods they will not only eat through these protective layers, but eventually into the aluminium alloy, too. In the case of wheels, it’s a problem compounded by the sheer volume of contact with hot metal contaminants, road salt and grime, and these can go on to compromise the structure, often resulting in irreversible damage. Obviously, this problem can occur exponentially quicker with specialist finishes (such as bare-metal, chrome and anodised wheels), because often there’s no initial paint or powdercoat protection at all.

So we advice you wash your wheels each months,that will help your wheels keeep fresh.