Great day to finally clean the brake dust off my wheels

"Leadbull" (leadbull911) 02/20/2017 at 22:21 • Filed to: Oppositelock, z

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I’m probably biased, but I think the 16in cross spokes from the Z3 were some of BMW’s finest work.

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Nick Has an Exocet > Leadbull 02/20/2017 at 22:25

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Is that a Z4 next to it?

rillweid - Now with more TRD and less TDI > Nick Has an Exocet 02/20/2017 at 22:26

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Looks like it.

Leadbull > Nick Has an Exocet 02/20/2017 at 22:36

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Yep!

Matt Nichelson > Leadbull 02/20/2017 at 23:04

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BMW is the only brand where there’s only a handful of wheels that I don’t like.

Leadbull > Matt Nichelson 02/20/2017 at 23:10

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Yeah, it’s a shame so many people throw tacky aftermarket wheels on their cars (although I’ve seen some great aftermarket designs out there).

Matt Nichelson > Leadbull 02/20/2017 at 23:22

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Agreed. There’s a sense of style that just isn’t there for other manufacturers. Certain aftermarket wheels are very nice. Why fix what isn’t broke, though?

Svend > Leadbull 02/21/2017 at 03:03

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Looks good, it looks like you need some fallout remover though.

A good fallout remover will safely dissolve the caked in brake dust.

Like these Mk2 Focus RS alloys.

They look okay and clean, but in the recesses there is some baked on dust.

Spray on the fallout remover.

Allow to dwell and dissolve the brake dust, agitate with a detailing brush into the corners.

Rinse thoroughly.

Then dry off the surface.

Clean wheels really add to the look of a clean car.

The perfect set for cleaning your wheels.

Full set of Wheel Woolies, will allow you to get right into those spokes and behind the wheels.

Detailing brush, to clean the wheel surface and get into the nooks and crannies where you can’t get a wheel woolie in and the wheel nuts.

Variable pressure head, will allow you to adjust the pressure for washing and rinsing the wheels.

Wheel cleaner, to remover both loose and general debris from the wheel.

Fallout remover, to attack and dissolve caked in brake dust safely, rinse thoroughly afterwards.

A good bucket, to rinse off your brushes after every couple of spokes or so, so your not spreading dirt around the wheel as your cleaning them.

Leadbull > Svend 02/21/2017 at 07:35

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Thanks, I’ll definitely have to give that a go!

jimz > Svend 02/21/2017 at 07:48

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never heard it called “fallout remover” before.

having grown up going to an elementary school which still had these signs posted outside:

“fallout” has a totally different meaning for me.

Svend > jimz 02/21/2017 at 08:56

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Lol. Ye’, it gets called fallout remover as it removes the air born iron deposits that get discharged from the wheels under braking.

As it embeds into the cars paintwork as well as the wheels it doesn’t just get generalised to the wheels as a ‘wheel brake dust remover’.

jimz > Svend 02/21/2017 at 10:53

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ah. two countries, separated by a common language.

Svend > jimz 02/21/2017 at 11:11

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Ye’, you guys (and gals) just have to be different don’t you. Lol.