gaz1048

Just so no one else does this.....although a trip to the muppets may be in order.....remember to let the brakes cool before you start spraying wheel cleaner on your alloys.....!!!!

I forgot, sprayed and smelt a smell that can only be described as an expensive smell! Low and behold my lovely matt black calipers are now a strange greeny grey colour!!! Oh bugger.

Next time I have the wheels off, I will have respray them but easily avoided if I had thought beforehand.


PS Where is the smillie legend on the new bbs? I can't remember the codes?

G

scrappydoo

To bloody late.Ive done it too.Bugger!!!! R u sure its the heat. I put the wheel cleaner on mine just after they put some copper ease on and the chemical reaction between the acid and Cu turned them green.Well thats what i think anyway!!.

Scrappy

JoeyDeacon

After a similar experience on my last car I would never use any of the Wonder Wheel type cleaners again. On my last car I stupidly sprayed all the wheels at the same time (it says on the bottle you should only leave this stuff on for 1 minute) and by the time I got to wash it off of the other 3 wheels it had turned them a all a yellow/green colour.

If you wash you car often enough you should only need to use car shampoo and a small nylon brush. The best thing for removing brake dust from your wheels is one of those pressure washers.

gaz1048

Scrappy

Pretty certain it wasn't the cleaner as I treated all the wheels the same and only the fronts were affected as calipers were hotter I suspect.

Not a happy bunny. I wonder if it is a MY01 thing? Maybe the paint is funny in a reactive way??

Joey, I reckon you are right. A bit of elbow grease is my future approach to the alloys.

Gaz

ptholt

If your using wonder wheels that kills standard calipers straight away.

My lovely sti ones were reduced to lime green in one application - best avoided me thinks.

Dragon

Out with the Hammerite guys