Tips for removing baked on brake dust ?

[Mako Koiwai]

... any ? ... aluminum wheels ... HP+ dust

I HAD waxed the wheels originally ... but that was a number of months ago. I guess I should have cleaned the wheels right after the event?

[Tom Denham]

1. Lot's of Magic Erasers, be warned they are a very mild abrasive.
2. ELBOW GREASE.
3. Adult Beverage.

[Mako Koiwai]

How about CEMENT on paint!

Going to El Toro on Father's Day we drove through a construction site where the 5 meets up with the 5 (?) near downtown. There was a truck doing something off to the side ... drove through a cloud of ? ... and when we got to El Toro we saw the front of the Miata was covered with fine white splash marks. Seems to be concrete? It's tougher then heavy duty rubbing compound. Has to be scrapped off with ones finger nail. Going to try a clay bar next.

Should have made a claim against CalTran!

[Tom Denham]

Clay Bar and lubricant. See My Post Below for more Info

Oh Corvette guys like to clean their suspension with Magic erasers

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/forums/ ... ?p=1551323

[Lisa Severy]

I bought wheel cleaner that is supposed to be safe for all wheels, to use on my mother's car's wheels. Not sure what wheels you want to clean (and I would be careful, even despite the safety claim), but this stuff was pretty amazing. I don't think my mother had cleaned her wheels since she bought the car. We sprayed it on, let it sit, and then scrubbed quite a bit. Although multiple applications were required, the wheels ended up pretty shiny again. It is supposed to be a spray on and rinse off application. Not so much on my Mom's wheels, but like I said, I don't think the wheels had been cleaned since 2002. I bought it at Autozone. Sorry I don't know the name, used the whole container up. On my painted wheels (Camaro and Corvette) and the polished aluminum wheels on my truck, I just use the Turtle Wax wash. It does the trick for brake dust. Not so good on removing cone marks. Turtle Wax had a product that was really good for that (really intended to remove bug splatter and road tar), but it is no longer available.

[Tom Denham]

Mako go pick this kit up,for the Miata, I have used this and the two together work great.



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[Mako Koiwai]

We already had a Mothers Clay Bar ... so we used it with Mothers Finishing Shine ... and it was the only thing that was able to remove the cement besides finger scrapping!

Miata is now polished and WAXED so Karen's SCNAX Cup Team won't be embarrassed.

[Larry Andrews]

waxing the wheels beforehand possibly left a material that could melt and then the dust would adhere to it.

i'd recommend a good quality autobody level pre-paint wax stripping solvent. won't dissolve the clearcoat, but will remove the wax and everything that comes with it. any abrasive is going to take anything that it can including clearcoat.

hth, la