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MG MGF Technical - My wheels need cleaning

I managed to clean my "MGF" wheels using those green dish washy things.With a bit of "elbow grease" and soapy water there slightly abrasive. They removed my streaky black brake runs from last winter and didn't effect the wheel lacour. Try a little bit first youll be suprised then send me £5 !!!!! only joking :) o--o
dave

I use Wonder Wheels. Marvellous stuff. Just brush it on and the brake dust just runs off. Once every two months.
:¬)

Bruce
Bruce Caldwell

Autoglym Clean wheels, spray on wash off two minutes per wheel, unless ur as manic about the wheels as me and take each of them off to do the 'flip' side :)

Mark
R945 VKJ
Mark Catterall

Got to agree, 'Wonder Wheels' is the "mutts nuts".
Buy it.
quikstu

Agree with all the comments about Wonder Wheels, excellent stuff. However I've got another vehicle (non MG - its a Truimph) thats just had a set of refurbished alloys fitted. The alloy is unlacquered which looks fantastic when it's clean - a pure turned aluminum finish, but I guess it could be a problem with aluminium corrosion once it gets some brake dust on, so they'll need cleaning very often.

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding cleaning unlacquered alloys?

Adrian
Adrian

I found that a green dish washing spongy thing will actually remove the paint finish on the inside of an MGF alloy. It might be OK on the outside surface which is better laquered, but I wouldn't recommend it for the inside surface. Petrol seems to be the only thing which removes tar deposits easily.

Martin
4 MGF
PS. If you have any cleaning tips then why not share them at the MGF Care and Accessories day at Stanford Hall this Sunday. See events section for details.
Martin Woods

This thread was discussed on 17/09/2002

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