My "Rage" at cleaning!

[Mr JP]

Excuse the Punn, but this question is for anyone with rages or knowledge on the best thing to use on them after cleaning thoroughly. I know someone is gonna say poorboys stuff but I want to have big clean tomorrow and have got the following to use to polish them:

Autoglym super resin polish
Meguiars gold class wax
Autoglym metal polish (Rage wheels seem to be just metal)

Up close the rage wheels seem to have no paint of laquer but just high polished steel?

So what's best please fellow space travellers?

[robbo51]

The Rages are laquered..
Dont use metal polish on them.
Use a mild wheel cleaner like Meguiars Hot rims and finish off with Poorboys Wheel Sealer...or a good wax with no abrasives..I wouldnt use SRP on them

[Mr JP]

already using hot rims wheel cleaner by megiuars, won't get poorboys by tomorrow! gold class wax it is then!

[PJS]

Rage are dual finish, iirc - diamond cut and painted charcoal colour, with lacquer.
Something good like Autobalm, Zaino CS, Duragloss 111/105 with 601 underneath should make cleaning them relatively easy.

[Mr JP]

Originally Posted by PJS

Rage are dual finish, iirc - diamond cut and painted charcoal colour, with lacquer.
Something good like Autobalm, Zaino CS, Duragloss 111/105 with 601 underneath should make cleaning them relatively easy.

Hi PJS, thankyou for your help, I will invest of 1 of the suggested products but just wondered what best to use tomorrow out of what I have lying about.

[PJS]

None, sine SRP is an abrasive polish, not a sealant.
Metal polish is for metals like stainless steel, etc, but not softish aluminium alloys.
And GC wax would fall off with the heat probably within a day or two.

Pull the CC out, jump online, and grab one of the aforementioned, then remove wheels and thoroughly clean, with a clay bar if need be, then seal with a layer or two of whichever one you go for.
I can honestly say, fully hand on heart, you'll be knocked sideways if you splurge on a Bilt Hamber bundle - Autoclay (soft - clear packaging), Autobalm, and Surfex HD.
If you split the SHD to 10% dilution in a garden sprayer jobbie, you'll have an extremely effective wheel cleaner.
5% dilution thereafter for once the wheels are Balmed, and as a pre-wash treatment on the lower panels to remove and soften the heavier grime that accumulates, as well as flies' splattered remains.
Oh, and 100% for quick and very effective engine bay grime/grease/etc, should you venture there.
So versatile, I suggest it over a wheel specific cleaner like Bilberry or P21S (R222) - which are very good by all accounts.
Mind you, if you have a pressure washer and foam lance, their Autofoam is superb! Used it for the first time myself the other day, on the car and wheels, not expecting too much to happen on the heavily grimed/brake dusted latter - how wrong I was! Stripped the crap right off with just a pressure hosing rinse down after leaving to sit for 5 mins or so.
And the brown dirt mixed with the foam on the floor was quite a sight too from the paintwork.

So, when you have all this made "locally" by a relative unknown company, and with more products formulated and in development/trials, you can begin to maybe appreciate why I recommend them first and foremost.

[illegalhunter]

Hot soapy water is just great.

[Robbieee]

Do rage alloys show breakdust alot? At the moment my type s alloys have to be cleaned every 2 days really to get rid of the breakdust!!

[robbo51]

Originally Posted by Robbieee

Do rage alloys show breakdust alot? At the moment my type s alloys have to be cleaned every 2 days really to get rid of the breakdust!!

Mine too....Just used BH on them instead of Poorboys...see if there is any difference

[Robbieee]

Originally Posted by robbo51

Mine too....Just used BH on them instead of Poorboys...see if there is any difference

I might actually see about a brake upgrade. And possibly rages too as the inner rims of the rages look darker so you wont notice as much on the type s alloys.