Welcome back to Detail Garage so today we're continuing with the super detail
and now it's time for us to clean these wheels now these wheels aren't necessarily dirty
but they are grimey meaning they have a lot of contamination embedded within
them over the years you know he has a lot of brake dust that's been building
up onto the will surfaced and into the barrel the wheel and also one thing I
noticed is that these will do have a polished lip so these lips are very
sensitive and prone to scratching so today we're going to be cleaning and
polishing these wheels so we're gonna be cleaned using decon now DeCon Iron
decontaminater so which means is we're gonna spray it on its gonna go on clear
then it turns purple. When it turns purple that means it's taking up a lot of the
iron particles embedded within the wheel surface itself it's gonna be picking
those up out for us and once we wash it off is gonna finish off nice and clean
and afterwards I can be polishing the lip here using Light Metal Polish now
Light Metal Polish is a nice polish to get these chrome lips polished up
without harming the surface it doesn't have too harsh of an abrasive to be
causing any more damage on to the polish lip is gonna get it nice and shiny as
well as it can to protect it from any kind of corrosion or any kind of water
and that's going to be making its way into the will so it's a very good
product to be using on polished surfaces such as this simple spray the entire
wheel caliper, spray the lug nuts make sure you get into every crack and crevice
from every angle.
So once you get into every surface on the wheel you wanna let the sit for about
three to five minutes it's gonna start turning purple as you can already see
certain parts of it are turning purple already so we're gonna wait for 3 to 5
minutes let this sit do its magic and then come back and clean it off.
Its been four and a half minutes and as you can see down here there's a lot of
purple drainage alot of nasty stuff that's been coming out these wheels
which is a good sign means it that is being decontaminated of iron particles.
There's not as much on the face of the wheel looks like it's a three piece wheel.
So most of the dirt and grime are coming up from the side from these
nuts right here so it seems like that's where a lot of the
contaminants are coming from a good sign so now it's time for us to add to tape
using our wheel bucket now I prepared this wheel bucket over here with one
ounce of soap, doesn't matter what so that you use, for this instance I use
Mr. Pink just one ounce of Mr Pink just to get suds to act as lubrication as I'm
cleaning and I'm going to be using are Wheel Woolies. Now the Wheel Woolie is perfect for
this will because it's not going to scratch the surface not gonna scratches
polished lip gonna get deep down into the barrel clean the back of it which is a
very hard area to get otherwise really does make a difference
different size brushes to make a large one, medium one and a very small one.
I think we're gonna be using all three so the big one is pretty obvious this one
used to get deep down into the barrel to really scrub the back of the wheel.
Usually very hard part to clean we sprayed it with our DeCon gonna be getting
off a lot of stuff I notice I'm starting from the top and as I'm starting from
the top you'll see a lot of drainage go down a lot of these soaps and suds that get
on top of the wheel itself are gonna make its way down so it's always a good idea to
start from the top, so just dip it down into a bucket going to a different spoke
and I'm just getting I'm concentrating on the barrel than anything else with this brush.
Now this area is a little bit harder to get and that's where this
brush comes in handy this one is perfect for getting him back of the caliper.
It's a very hard area to clean behind the wheel.
Usually people have to move their car forward in order to get it with another
brush but since we have an assortment of brushes it's pretty easy to get into it
with these Wheel Woollies.
As I'm agitating as I'm brushing I'm knocking off a lot of dirt lot more DeCon
started runoff you see it turning purple a very good sign.
Scrub the caliper itself as well.
Alright back on there with the big brush to finish off the other areas.
I'm agitating a lot of the dirt, a lot of this nasty muck that's getting the
back of the wheel, just collecting back here so be sure to agitate that so I make sure I
get that area. So this is a Gerbil brush this brush is perfect and very soft and it's not
gonna scratch. It's perfect for getting into the spokes right here to brushing
up these nuts that are getting this pretty grimy.
Now again this is the perfect brush to be using in between spokes specially for
wheels like this. It's very sensitive they can get scratched this is perfect.
It also holds and retains a lot of water very soft so it's gonna act more as a lubricant the
more soap and more water I have on it the better and now it's time to move on to
the face of the wheel so be using my green brush here its' perfect for rubbing
and If I knock into it this actually won't scratch it so it's fine if
knock into its maybe something to watch out for look out for but I do
knock into it it's not gonna scratch these wheels. Now on to the final step this is our
Best Detailing Brush. This brush right here is perfect for getting in to these
lug nuts right here and knocking off a lot of the loose dirt lot of the DeCon also
you can get into areas like this if you feel like you need to agitate it furthermore
Again if i do knock into the wheel with this because it is a plastic
handles not gonna scratch it's not going to damage.
There most of the dirt that that was embedded is very loose so I'll go over it very
quickly and coming all off but now it's time to rinse this down.
Now that the wheel is nice and clean it's time for us to dry it.
I'll use our Green Workhorse Towels.
These spokes are a little bit tricky so you might have to a little maneuvering put the
microfiber towel between to get all that residual and that crud in between.
So it's very important before I start polishing let that slip is nice and dry
so not the lip is nice and dry it's time for us to start applying our Light Metal
Polish now the trick to using Light Metal Polish is to use an applicator and you
do not want to use too much product the more product use the more you can have
to work at it use a very small amount would you do start rubbing it on
the area you want to start working on so again you lightly work in and right now
we're just applying it were not necessarily going to be agitating we're
not going to be buffing it off or anything we're just applying it and as
you can see is creating a light haze which is a good thing and this is all
the oxidation that was built onto the lip so it's a good thing that we're
going to be removing that now would you do to get your microfiber I got a
Workhorse we have a Gray Workhorse for polishing any kind of metal any kind of
chrome and what you do is you start buzzing off the haze that you got one
applying it and this is the part where you can apply a little bit of pressure
and you're not apply too much pressure you're just you know working it in my
hand just working it back and forth and you can see you still getting off a lot
of oxidation but there's a noticeable difference between for how first started.
Now you're gonna get some areas like this where this is etched on there that
won't buff off that's a common question that we get all the time.
How can above off any kind of stains or anything?
This seems like some kind of acid stain right here so they probably used a
very abrasive wheel cleaner very corrosive and actually ruined the finish
of this that's going to have to get probably redone because it is worked in
there but you can see the area around that looks amazing so you can see this
will right here is nice and polished looking great we remove the autoxidation
nice and smooth we removed a lot of the iron I was embedded within its so nice
and smooth it's not going to be oxidizing as fast as they used to be.
It's ready for any kind of you know Wheel Guard or JetSeal or protectant you
want to put on this wheel on top of the Light Metal Polish itself.
Light Metal Polish does have a protective agent so it well protect it from outside elements as
well so and this wheel looks a lot better than it first started.
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