I had a flat a week or two ago and so I put the spare on. It was a decent old tire from the parts car. If I remember it was the spare on that car also. Well, the thing was incredibly dirty. In the trunk of that parts car in southern Kentucky for five years and just layer after layer of wheel grease and brake dust. I couldn't find anything that would loosen it up. Brake cleaner, starting fluid, various wheel cleaners and citrus type degreasers, nothing moved the crud. So I had one more solution to try, good old "Sure Wonder White" the old white wall tire cleaner. That and a good stiff fiber brush just made that wheel look like new. Still are some tight spots like around the valve stem that need more attention, but the acid base in that tire cleaner sure did get that impossible grim to leave.

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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. C.S. Lewis



1983 Mercedes W123 240D 4 Speed 285,000 on the road with a 617 turbo, beautiful butter yellow, license plate # 83 240D INDIANA

2003 Jaguar Type X, AWD. beautiful, good mileage,
Mom's car, but I won't let her drive it!

I use a similar product called Westley's Wide White Wall cleaner that I have used on my antique cars. It is amazing how well it works..Buy it by the gallon from Aubuchon Hardware online...Only about 16$ a gallon...

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83 300CDTurbo 307,000
2005 Honda Element 266,000
56 Nash Ambassador Country Club Special 34,000(under restoration presently)

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/car-audio-multimedia/125099-123-install-extreme-dynamat.html

I usually build up enough brake dust in a week or so to turn my front wheels mostly black, (oem pads...) but when I powerwash it at the carwash I spray the wheels with a blast of "high pressure soap" and then a good blast of rinse and that gets 90% of it off. If its really bad I spray some "wheel cleaner" on them, wash the rest of the car, then come back to the wheels and spray them off, and that usually works great. They get dirty too fast for me to put much more effort than that into it.....

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'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

A bottle of coke and some aluminum foil.

Pour the Coke on the wheel and scrub away the gunk with the foil. it takes some elbow grease but it works well.

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1980 300SD - 495k miles - 'The Ambassador'
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Former Family Members
95 C280
73 280SEL
90 300D
87 300SDL (X2)
86 560SEL
84 300D
80 300SD

Regular, Classic,..........or DIET??

Bundts are painted and clearcoated. This method is a sure way of destroying that if the clearcoat is still there.

Coke and Foil is great for other chrome on the car, but not for painted bundts, but if if works for you, great. As for me, When I got rag doll, I stripped and repainted all the wheels with wheel paint and clear coat to get them looking decent again.

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91 350SD
14 F150 Eco
19 Fusion Hybrid
11 GT500

I tried the aluminum foil on the aluminum trim, it just scratched it.
For my chrome bundts, I scrubbed them about 5 times with SOS pads, then polished with Mother's. They are CLEAN and slippery now. Sure to come clean again much more easily.

It was a serious pain, but man do they look nice.

Diet might give the wheels cancer or alzheimer's, better stick with regular or classic.


They did that on mythbusters to clean chrome, worked great! better than the expensive cleaner!!

I rarely ever drink pop.....water is much healthier.

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

I have no doubt about that.

I used the coke method on my black SD where the clearcoat is long gone from those wheels. I wouldn't dare use it on my other one whose wheels are pristine.

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Joe

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1980 300SD - 495k miles - 'The Ambassador'
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Former Family Members
95 C280
73 280SEL
90 300D
87 300SDL (X2)
86 560SEL
84 300D
80 300SD

I'm really not sure if it would work or look good on these wheels but in the northwest most Les Schwabb tire outlets will take wheels to have them sandblasted and powdercoated for between $22.50 and $27.00 per wheel (the range reported by people using the various tire outlets to obtain the service).
It's a pretty good deal. They have a limited selection of colors available and silver was one of them in late '05.

Look at this...

(Not mine, though I wish!)

Looks to be a polished alloy bundt without any paint. Beautiful.

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That sounds much too cheap for powdercoating and clearcoating, I paid more like $100 per wheel. I would ask to see what their finished product looks like.

Yep...you are correct, but you'll never get water to taste as good as an Ice Cold Vernors ! ! !

That's the only thing I miss about home.....Vernors in bottles. We only get it in cans here.

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1998 W202 C230 - The money pit of late.
1984 W126 300SD (356,800 miles) Gone to the wrenchapart
1984 W123 300D Gone to the wrenchapart
1972 W108 280SE 3.5 (sold but not forgotten)
1986 Buick Grand National 3.8l Turbo (86k miles)
1966 Glassic Model 'A' Replica http://www.glassicannex.org

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