chrome cleaner
Melting Slicks
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From: Nashville TN
Melting Slicks
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From: Edmond Oklahoma
pitting in chrome? sounds more serious than just a cleaner or treatment.
I use Mother's spray on chrome wheel cleaner. The instructions are to spray it on the wheels and rinse it off right away. Not sure if that applies here.
I use Mother's spray on chrome wheel cleaner. The instructions are to spray it on the wheels and rinse it off right away. Not sure if that applies here.
Racer
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There are several chrome cleaners that will do a great job of getting the chrome clean, and as others have said, won't do a thing to address pitting. The key point is to follow up with a good chrome polish to protect them. The best solution I have found is Chemical Guys Wheel Guard. Once my wheels were clean as new, I coated, let dry, buffed off, then repeated - with wheels off the car. That was over a year ago. Now I just do a weekly dry wipe with plush microfiber and the brake dust wipes right off, leaving them clean as new. I expect to re-coat this fall, but it worked better than anything else to keep them protected and easy to clean.
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Team Owner
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From: Chirper Island
Both Simichrome and Adam's two-step metal polish do a great job on chrome. Neither can do anything about the pitting, but the Adam's has some sort of wax in it already so it does protect as well.
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From: lake havasu city arizona
Try using some "Buffalo wool" , #0000 steel wool as an applicator and no it wont scratch them, I've used it for years.
I have heard told that wadded up aluminum foil works on removing rust also ??
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I have heard told that wadded up aluminum foil works on removing rust also ??
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I use the Adam's. Great stuff!