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17th April 2013, 21:58
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 8,390
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I purchased this stuff from Costco in Manchester, near the Trafford Centre. The label on the front says "Super Alloy Wheel Cleaner", "Auto Express Best Buy - 7 Times Winner.", so I thought it was probably pretty good stuff and would do the job of cleaning my new Volk alloy wheels.
How wrong I was. The 'Important' small print on the reverse, states that this stuff is no good for "un-lacquered, forged, anodised, chrome plated, un-lacquered and polished alloys, chrome/ahrome appearance centre caps/wheel nuts and wheels with damaged lacquer or split rims".
Basically, that means it's only any good for going over paint or varnish (lacquer), and not actually any use on metal, which one would assume a wheel cleaner would be useful for.
The end result is that my 1 month old £1500 wheels are now damaged, where the ACID (Hydrochloric acid, which is what this stuff is) has etched into the polished metal surface.
So basically this stuff is fine for cheap painted wheels, but no good for proper alloys. Great.
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Clearly a fucking idiot with too much money and not enough sense then. "urgh my uber expensive scene wheels have been fucked because I cant read".
Congratulations, have a lolly.
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17th April 2013, 23:35
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#22
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: wirral
Posts: 6,348
Car(s): Icelandic vtr turbo
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Originally Posted by Gabbastard
Clearly a fucking idiot with too much money and not enough sense then. "urgh my uber expensive scene wheels have been fucked because I cant read".
Congratulations, have a lolly.
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Flol have a lolly
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17th April 2013, 23:59
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#23
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Saxperience Forum Bum
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Doncaster
Posts: 2,627
Car(s): Fabia VRS, mk1 fiesta + some others
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I've always just washed my wheels off with a sponge after I've washed the car. The brake dust just wipes off. What is the ironx stuff actually for?
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18th April 2013, 00:12
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#24
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Saxperience Post Whore
Join Date: May 2009
Location: ringwood
Posts: 6,305
Car(s): suzuki swift 1.2 sz3
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Originally Posted by m4tt274
I've always just washed my wheels off with a sponge after I've washed the car. The brake dust just wipes off. What is the ironx stuff actually for?
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Seriously baked on stuff, and iron you can't see. Mainly making sure the psi t is as clean as possible.
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18th April 2013, 07:19
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Established Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire
Posts: 1,631
Car(s): Clio 172 Flamer
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None of that is on there now.. that review is 7 years old.
One of my alloys paint has started to peel previously to using this stuff and it hasn't made it any worse.
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22nd April 2013, 02:10
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Infrequent Poster
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 110
Car(s): Saxo 1.6 VTR
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Used this stuff before and it's not too bad, Iron X is better though. Will pop into tesco tomorrow then if it's going that cheap!
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