SONAX WHEEL CLEANER!

Hey Everyone,

So i picked up the Sonax Wheel Cleaner yesterday and tried it out. I wanted to share my experience with all of you. So my dads car, rims are always dirty because of the brake dust
and just road dirt. Its almost a 10 year old car and there has been brake dust caked onto the wheels for over 2 - 3 years. No matter what i used, it wouldn't come off. So i tried the Sonax and
this green liquid DOES WORK! my dad has never seen the rims so clean! it also gave me motivation to detail his exterior for 6 hrs HEHEHE shall post pictures below. ENJOY! and GRAB A BOTTLE!











Most of it was gone after the first spray, but since brake dust have been caked for so long, i did a few more times. It looks good. Spent the rest of the night detailing and enjoy a nice cold beer after =D

cool story bro

haha kidding, this stuff seems GOOT

Nice, my GF's rims are getting frigged up cuz she NEVAR cleans her own dizzam ride. So I guess the next time I clean the friggin thing i'll try that stuff out, thanks for posting the review.

its diff wort the money! i didnt have enough in my pocket, if so i would've of bought more!!!

They look new.

Are these available at CT?

im not sure, i picked this up at nextmod

The rims looked like they were bleeeeeding

on a more serious note *clears throat* how did the rims hold up after they were clean? like is it strictly a cleaner or does it have repelling qualities too? My rims constantly dirty, damn black... Dro knows what I'm talking bout..

Probably pick some up when I'm at Nextmod on Friday, give it a try!!

phuknrht wrote:Is it strictly a cleaner or does it have repelling qualities too?

Just a cleaner.

I've never let anything really get caked on (. asside from the back side where I can't get (. but nothing taking the wheel off and cleaning it wouldn't fix .)

i forgot what kind of brakes my dad is running, but european car's brake shoot out lots of dust =( look at all them mercs and bmws with filthy rims. Anyways after i cleaned them about 2 drives out dad comes back with somewhat dirty rims again. But im able to just use regular car soap and easy fix. Im only going to use sonax when its really really dirty! regular days, regular things =)

There is an Armor All rim protectant that I use on my polished lip of the Volks. It is great, prevents anything from sticking to it (for a while). Perhaps use SONAX to clean your wheels and then the Armor All spray to keep the dust off.

I used to get a lot of dust and the concave shape of the lip used to hold it all in.

Sounds interesting! Think we should have some product reviews for cleaning our rides, that way all tts rides are SHINY CLEAN!

FarShark wrote:There is an Armor All rim protectant that I use on my polished lip of the Volks. It is great, prevents anything from sticking to it (for a while). Perhaps use SONAX to clean your wheels and then the Armor All spray to keep the dust off.

I used to get a lot of dust and the concave shape of the lip used to hold it all in.

Is this that Aresol spray that it says to let dry for an hour, or even longer if possible?? I saw it at CT but Im always skeptical of new products , if it is what you were taking about, then I'll be picking some up

is it an acid wheel cleaner ? acid wheel cleaners work amazing if your'e getting corrosion starting on your wheels ...a simple acid wheel cleaner can reverse it if you catch it early enough ....i was doing detailing at honda ...and all the cleaning chemicals we used where a valvoline car care thing ...and they workkkeeddd ammmmaazzzingggg ! i have looked around trying to buy some for my car but cant find them

It is an aerosol spray.

Remember its not a cleaner, although once you spray it you can wipe it down a bit and its gather some of the crud on the wheels.

Im not sure if you are supposed to leave it to dry, I dont ever bother, it works just fine.

It works amazing on my polished lips. I can bring it to the next CSCS event and you can give it a shot.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/4/Auto/CarWashingCleaning/TireWheelCare/PRD~0390438P/Armor%252BAll%252BRim%252BProtectant.jsp?locale=en

FarShark wrote:It is an aerosol spray.

Remember its not a cleaner, although once you spray it you can wipe it down a bit and its gather some of the crud on the wheels.

Im not sure if you are supposed to leave it to dry, I dont ever bother, it works just fine.

It works amazing on my polished lips. I can bring it to the next CSCS event and you can give it a shot.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/4/Auto/CarWashingCleaning/TireWheelCare/PRD~0390438P/Armor%252BAll%252BRim%252BProtectant.jsp?locale=en

Yeah I picked some up a month or so ago, supposed to let it dry for an hour or more, but when it dries its kind of hazy, and made my black wheels look like several people busted a load all over them took me like an hour to buff it all off

itd be good for lighter coloured wheels though im sure

shall try it out.....hopefully it doesnt damage flat black finishes!

just G wrote:shall try it out.....hopefully it doesnt damage flat black finishes!

Hopefully the flat finish on wheels isnt like Matte Paint jobs, which from what i hear are retarded to keep, cause you cant do anything you normally would to wash your car and have to clean anything off right away or it will stain...

I heard that acid base cleaner can strip the paint off your wheels if they are painted, like plastidiped.

I'm kind of scared to use wheels/rim cleaners since I did paint my stock wheels with plastidip, my gold rims on the other hand, maybe i will try it, but not sure if that would take the paint off either.

if you just clean you shit every week then you wont get any build up and wont need these harsh cleaners , just my opinion

true say.. I totally agree with you prez!

any issues with tire shines? I heard that stuff can do the same to plastidip paint.

Interesting to hear your experience on the black wheels.

I guess since I have polished lips on my wheels, I can only offer the advise for that type of wheels. In this case, they work great.