Best way to clean style 135 wheels

[wstr75]

Yes. Does a good job for me and quickly, too. I find it also helps to slosh mass quantities of soapy water onto the wheel slots via repeated brush dunking immediately followed by brushing vigorously. The bristles are quite soft so no concerns regarding wheel abrasion, etc. It being a wide bristle intensive brush enables the transfer of a goodly amount of soapy water onto the wheel which helps in transporting the removed brake dust, dirt, etc. off the wheel. It also does a good job on our Acura RLX wheel which has numerous spokes: http://www.acura.com/RLX/2016/Photos...llic-hanger-10

[330i Lover]

Sounds like I'll be adding this to my wish list. Santa also wants my 135's clean.

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[KevinC]

For the ceramic pads, they are hard and don't bite into the blank rotors as well as the OE pads. To keep the relatively same braking effect, when you swap to ceramic pads also swap to slotted/drilled rotors. The extra edges of the rotors help the harder ceramic pads bite, the braking effort will be the same with the same results. The source, our own Ray at BrakeYourself.com.

Perhaps for a track/HPDE/autocross car, but overkill for a street-driven car, IMHO. In my purely street application, my brakes are 100% as effective as with the dirtier, bite-ier factory pads, with the only difference being a slight amount of additional pedal pressure required, and they don't bite too well on the first stop of a cold morning, then immediately fine from there. But then we don't really have many cold mornings here in Phoenix.

[3ZHPGUY]

I've been using this method for years and it works out great. Will say, before I start. I'm currently running with Hawk 5.0 pads and find the braking to be fantastic and the dust is minimal.

I use simple green full strength in a spray bottle. First I wet the wheels with the hose. I then spray simple green on each spoke, the back dish area between each spoke and finally the entire wheel and tire. I spray two tires at a time. Next, I take my Griot's Garage sponge swabs, wet them in my soap bucket then cover them in simple green. Once covered I clean each spoke center, rotating the swab constantly. When finished with the spokes, I do around the lug bolts continuing with the rotation and lastly the 5 small holes between the lugs. Note; the swab gets rinsed and recoded with simple green for each wheel.

Next, I use the blue micro tool shown below to clean the dish on the back side. This fits tightly between the caliper and the wheel but not to tight to damage anything. Fingers work the best for the small area behind the spokes.

Last, I finish off the remanded of the wheel with a micro fiber or sheep skin mitt. Once complete, rinse and go.

Blue Micro Tool



Griot's Garage sponge swabs (may be discontinued)






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[330i Lover]

Jackpot, thanks Guy! BTW let me know when you'll be near Nashville or Bellevue. Our imolas look sexy together.

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[3ZHPGUY]

I will. Maybe we can do an Imola photo shoot, when the weather gets nice.


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[ELCID86]

I use this one. Just got it and used it over the weekend. Works very well as the bristles are long and limp (not wise cracks...)



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[hcbeck2689]

Here are a few options I found on Amazon. The water powered turbine looks like a good concept.

Sonax (417541) Wheel Rim Sponge https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024WU1UG..._ZhUxwb7B5H39A
Griot's Garage 15736 Long Reach Wheel Brush - Set of 3 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00469L32A..._6eUxwb39T5KJ8
Brush Hero- Wheel Brush, Premium Water-Powered Turbine for Rims, Engines, Bikes, Equipment, Furniture and More (2 Brushes) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B013TK3EMS..._UfUxwbQ03GH48
Griot's Garage 15704 Micro Fiber Wheel Wand, (Pack of 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004YMRIC8..._5gUxwbYNGPPDS


-Holden

[330i Lover]

Cool, i'm glad I wasn't the only one with impossible fingers to get inside those tight slivers.

[Stewbie]

I just slip a wet soapy microfibre cloth in the gap and use it like floss. Need to reach one hand thru the large gap to grab the other end of the cloth. They are easier to clean if you take the wheel off the car. Armour All Wheel Protectant also helps slow the buildup of dust (there's a thread on here somewhere on this product).

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