Cleaning metal / brake dust off an alloy wheel

[strath44]

Before Christmas I was away with work for a while and when I came home noticed my wives car (an A6) had a very brown rear alloy. It turned out to be that the brake calliper had seized and worn the inner pad down to the metal (the noise was surely a give away - anyway!).

It was all a bit of a mess and I was annoyed because had I been around would have caught it sooner!

Anyway the wheel is now a bit of a mess, basically the wet salty weather seems to have solidified the metal filings from the rear of the brake pad and the disc to the wheel - over the whole wheel!

I had some of this basic wonder wheel cleaner in the garage
http://www.carplan.co.uk/index.cfm?page=74
that combined with the pressure washer has lifted a bit but not really touched the surface, has anyone got any wheel cleaner suggestions!????

[strath44]

thanks I will have a look through those, at a glance iron-x seems to get good reviews!

[strath44]

Wonder wheels is very good and at the price is great I think £5-8 at asda & sainsburys etc

I use it every couple of months and it gives good results. I now tend to take the wheels off the cars before cleaning. I don't think people realise how strong these cleaners are, they remove antisieze on the brake pads and tend to make uncoated calipers (look) rusty.

The worst stuff is that used by drive through hand car washes!