Hot Rims is the safe, logical choice for nearly all wheels and coatings. Hot Rims uses tough, penetrating and neutralizing agents to loosen and dissolve brake dust, road grime, and stubborn dirt build-up, allowing those substances to wash off easily. To make cleaning your wheels even easier and more thorough, we recommend using our Versa-Angle Wheel Face Brush and the Ultra-Safe Wheel Spoke Brush.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: This is what I was looking for to clean my wheels. Comment: This cleaner works well. It is not magic and simply applying it and rinsing off doesn't really do the trick. Although, I guess if you were crazy and did that daily it would work, but who does that?
Personally, I try to wash my car weekly. Some weeks it doesn't happen, but mostly it does. I've found that this spray is easy to apply after having just washed the car and then I use a brush on the wheels before rinsing it all off. The spray goes on easy as a nice foam and all four tires of my mustang seem to take just a little fluid out of the bottle implying a large number of wheel washings per bottle. I have only used it three times so far and the fluid level is nearly at the "looks like it just came from the store" level.
As with cleaning anything, keeping a regular routine just makes the cleaning easier and faster. If your wheels are really dirty and you don't clean them frequently then expect to apply this cleaner more than once and to use a little more elbow grease. But, if you're a frequent-cleaner-type person you will find that regular maintenance is a breeze and just a little brushing loosens all of that road crud in no time.
Contrary to another reviewer's complaint it definitely is better than "soap and a sponge." I know this because I washed two wheels on my car with the regular car wash soap I use, and two with this stuff. The results: my wife easily identified which was which.
One thing of note, which did not impact my star rating. I ordered this product directly from Amazon and it arrived in a plastic bag in a box. This is a good thing as the pump had a teeny leak and the bag prevented the fluid from getting on anything else in the shipment. I can't fault the product for being a liquid and being tossed by UPS (the box was ragged when it arrived) but I can compliment Amazon for their packing methods. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the best wheel cleaners out there....PERIOD. Comment: I used this product for the very first time this weekend (March 1, 08) and was VERY impressed with the results. I followed the bottle's directions, and I DID use a soft bristle brush to agitate the cleaner. The Hot Rims Wheel Cleaner dissolved ALL of the brake dust and road grime on my car's alloy wheels with EASE. Other products have left spots here and there, but this made short work of cleaning my wheels and left them with a sparkling shine. Try this product, you WILL like it. Customer Rating: Summary: Works great, leaves rims sparkling. Comment: Our cars have aluminum rims with a silver finish. Meguiar's G-9524 Hot Rims All Wheel Cleaner really does a good job of cleaning them and leaves them with a sparkling finish that seems to last well. Needs to be used with a soft brush - spraying this on and then hosing it off without brushing would be a waste of time and money. Customer Rating: Summary: Didn't do what I thought... Comment: I expected the cleaner to really clean up the wheels. It didn't do any better than car wash soap and a sponge. Not worth the money. Customer Rating: Summary: Cleans well....still need some elbow work Comment: This stuff really works....buy it you will be happy
