- We had previously,
if you go back and watch
WD-40 Protection for Painted Wheels,
we have proven that works.
It works like a dream.
We still have, pretty much,
every vehicle we have here covered with that product,
with WD-40 on the black painted wheels.
It's workin' great.
But we wanted to try it on chrome wheels,
because everybody was asking.
I happen to have these newish chrome wheels
on the H2 Hummer.
So I figured why not give it a shot this winter.
See what happens.
So this one had been coated.
It looked good after about six weeks.
We washed it,
re-coated it again,
have run it now for about three, four more weeks.
And now I'm about to just wash it up
and kind of see where we're at,
and see if we're doin' good as far as
corrosion and pitting and keepin'
all that salt and stuff off of here.
Typically, you cannot run these at all in Wisconsin
because they'll have huge pits in them in about four weeks.
So we're definitely doing better
than if we wouldn't have protected 'em.
But this will be my chance
being that this wheel was completely
perfect when we started.
It had no pitting whatsoever.
To see if the WD-40 is holding up against winter.
We'll get her washed up
and tell you how we're doing.
Back at the Custom Offsets Ranch, winter's over.
Sun is shining.
It's gonna be 70 today.
So it's time to wash these wheels up
and tell you how I did.
You guys had the idea,
and I don't know if,
A-man, you're probably going to show 'em the beginning
of this movie, right?
So now we're at the end the movie?
You guys had the idea,
told me to put WD-40 on some other products
on my chrome wheels to see if they'd do well in the winter.
And we'll see what the results are.
I can tell you from a little sneak peek,
it didn't go well.
So let's get into it.
(slow mellow electric guitar, synth beat)
So the right way to wash wheels
is if you saw Kirk's video,
I should have a two-bucket system.
Dirty bucket, clean bucket.
I should probably use new water for each wheel.
The Hummer's my winter beater.
We're not havin' that kinda party.
So I spray water on it.
I use the same bucket all the way around.
By the time I get the last wheel
it has the most likely chance of being scratched,
but I'm okay with that.
I'm gonna show you the biggest reason why.
Because your WD-40 idea.
Am I hit?
Your WD-40 idea actually wrecked all of my wheels,
so we'll get to that.
(slow mellow electric guitar, synth beat)
Okay.
Now they're semi-clean.
And I'll show you why you do the two-bucket system.
Even though we're gettin' a little off topic.
As you get to the bottom of the bucket,
I don't think you're gonna be able
to see that, A-man.
Can't really see the sediment.
It's dirty as (beep).
Okay, (beep) the two-bucket system.
Total waste of time.
(slow mellow electric guitar, synth beat)
So this wheel was the one perfect wheel
because, remember, this was a used set-up
that I threw on here,
but this wheel was perfect when we started winter.
And when you guys tricked me
into doing a WD-40 test on chrome
because we know it works on painted,
but we wanted to try it on chrome.
It was your guys' idea.
I kinda liked it, though.
I fell for it.
So I'm gonna use some Dirty Lip on the chrome here.
I already washed 'em with the,
I'm sorry,
I already washed 'em with the Dirty Lip.
I already came back with the New Rubber
that's all soaking in now.
Now I'm gonna use some Floss Gloss
and just get 'em back to a new shine
and see how much damage we caused.
(slow electric guitar, synth beat)
You never wanna apply this stuff in direct sunlight,
but as you know,
if you're at a show,
and you have to,
you have to.
And then what you do is just try to move
as quickly as possible.
Get it on there.
Get it off.
You could do a small section.
I'm just, I don't have the patience for that.
So I threw it on real quick.
I'm intentionally sitting,
so I'm shadowing a good majority of the wheel.
But I want you guys to be able to see it.
That's why I'm doing it in the sunlight.
But I can already see that I'm in deep doodoo down here.
This whole entire thing is starting to pit.
So this whole area.
Hopefully, you can see that A-man.
Is got, like, little little tiny speckle pitting going on.
So the whole finish is being attacked.
You can see it up here.
And it's right on the inside where I would expect
most of the salt and chemicals to get stuck.
Like we talked about in the beginning of this video.
So you won't need to go any further to know
that I've wrecked these wheels
and that spraying WD-40 on them,
chrome wheels in the winter,
just doesn't work.
The painted wheels.
It's still working great.
We could clean up any one of our vehicles here
and show you that they're still in mint condition.
But with chrome with painted with chrome,
it's a no go,
and these are pretty well shot.
Like I said,
they were used and my intention is to powder coat
these anyway, so I didn't mind wreckin' 'em this winter.
I didn't wanna take 'em off,
and I wasn't in the mood to get 'em powder coated yet.
So it was a good time to do an experiment,
but the best thing to run on your chrome wheels
in the wintertime is a different set of wheels
that aren't chrome.
Put the chrome wheels away.
Get a protectant on 'em.
Bring 'em back out in the spring
so you can look fresh again.
Or plan on wrecking them so that you can powder coat them.
'Cause I basically have prepped these
now for powder coat.
So that's winter wheel wonder chrome style.
Don't do it.
Don't ever do it.
Don't do it.
(slow mellow electric guitar, synth beat)