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    Posted: 28-April-2004 at 13:14

Any suggestions/great ideas for keeping alloy's clean for more than a day?

When I clean mine, I also use wet look tyre shine on the tyres, by the time I've been driving for a few miles, the brake dust is back again.

I've seen those clean wheel discs, but also heard these can cause the brakes to overheat - any solutions for keeping them clean other than a bucket of water after each journey?
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Points: 5245 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-April-2004 at 13:36
Wax wax and more wax... oooh... and then some wax.

Not tried this myself, but having seen a Honda prelude complete a good number of track sessions and come off with almost spotlessly clean wheels I asked what the owner had done. His answer was as above.
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Points: 39 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-April-2004 at 14:00
I always use some type of silicon spray. Dashboard sprays are the best, just spray all the wheels with it and leave to dry. I did a 450 mile round trip to Wales and back and you could still see silver sparkles. This trick was passed down from my mate who valets cars.
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Points: 64 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-April-2004 at 14:46
Cheers Brendan, I'll give it a go - Amour All is silicone based,  I'll try that first 
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just don´t get it on your brakes.
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Points: 835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-April-2004 at 16:47

Change your pads!! I use Greenstuff (German compund) and they only get a slight grey dust after a weeks worth of motoring. Mintex are good on low dust aswell.

As said wax and cleaning is the only way, unless you use your handbrake!

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Points: 276 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28-April-2004 at 20:15

Turtle wax brake dust barrier works well, but then that's basically a wax too, so I'd say the prelude driver was right. Mind you, i just put two coats on quite some months ago, and they still rinse up clean so it may only be wax and wax.

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To quote Dave,

Change your pads, the dust is obviously created by them and there is a massive selection so you should be able to find ones that minimise dust output? Surely even with a wax or other coating the dust will still be created and coat the wheels to some extent, it really just makes them easier to clean I would have thought?

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Points: 497 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-May-2004 at 16:52
Don't know if BMW do these, but my pal has a lovely BIG (5 litre I think)Jag, with Alloy wheels.  On his, there is a simple flat disc that is fitted behind the wheels.   You cannot see the Calipers etc, because of this black disc.  But his 15 year old Alloys look great.  He uses no specialist cleaner, either.   How this disc fits, I'm not sure, maybe it just fits over the studs.
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Points: 451 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-May-2004 at 17:44

The brake dust can be more than just a cosmetically annoying thing.

I had some ATE pads with the same make discs. When the dust got wet, it attacked the paint on my wheels, leaving little pit marks in the surface.

I went over to some Pagid fast road from ECS and haven't had the problem.

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Points: 64 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-May-2004 at 15:03
I've heard those clean wheel disc covers can cause the brakes to overheat and cause even more problems - is this true?
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Points: 835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-May-2004 at 16:27

Yes!

The covers will stop a fair amount of cooling which comes from the air travelling through the wheels, if not all of it.

TBH I think they look a bit poo, bit like the blue plastic covers you get on brand new cars to protect the discs from the elements during transport/storage - they are removed during the PDI check.

I think it looks worse than sticking wheel trims on!

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Points: 15508 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-May-2004 at 16:31
do these look like the pretend disks that many rice-boys use to hide their brake drums?
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Points: 835 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-May-2004 at 17:02

Even crapier than them!!

 

And those spinny round when your stopped wheel trims!

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Points: 420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-May-2004 at 13:32
Try Mintex C-tech dustless pads? I will swap onto them once my greenstuff ones are done as I have heard great reports on them
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