black sludge on alloys after washing

[JB65]

Morning all!
Appreciate some car groom clarification/advice.
Whenever I take my car out post a car cleaning session, black sludge quickly appears on the inside of the alloys at the level where the brake disk sits, which I assume is disk rusty wear (post cleaning).
Any car clean advice how to avoid that?

Edited by JB65 on Monday 5th November 10:34

[cayman-black]

Black sludge? do you mean a brown coloured stuff? That's the discs getting a rust coat on them from the water, dry wheel then drive car back and forwards on brakes a few times to clean discs off and then wipe inside of wheels over. ?

[JB65]

Cayman, that's it - thanks, nothing odd then, good to know! Just an after clean exercise...

[cayman-black]

JB no nothing odd at all, just annoying.

[Emilio Largo]

The brown rust drippings from the steel discs after washing the car can be reduced (but not entirely eliminated) by blowing the wheels and discs dry with a car dryer, i.e. in my case the Metro Vac Air Force Blaster Sidekick. A fantastic tool for drying the wheels, front grille, mirrors, door sills, engine etc. and essentially all hard to reach parts of the car where water is trapped.

A huge thanks to divetheworld for bringing this invaluable gadget to my attention.

[ashway]

Agreed it’s a fantastic addition to the wash routine. Neighbours think I’m off my rocker though

[JB65]

thanks gents for perfecting my washing routine!

[cayman-black]

I use my petrol leaf blower...

[divetheworld]

If you have steel discs (Not CCM) then after you have cleaned off the most of the wheel crap, spray with Iron-X or Trix and leave for 5 mins. That stuff is magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6mScPMqrA

Emilio Largo said:

The brown rust drippings from the steel discs after washing the car can be reduced (but not entirely eliminated) by blowing the wheels and discs dry with a car dryer, i.e. in my case the Metro Vac Air Force Blaster Sidekick. A fantastic tool for drying the wheels, front grille, mirrors, door sills, engine etc. and essentially all hard to reach parts of the car where water is trapped.

A huge thanks to divetheworld for bringing this invaluable gadget to my attention.

My pleasure!!

[Mikebentley]

I use a dog grooming blower off eBay. Very cheap and I got the pink one just to get the neighbours curtains twitching. I also have a habit of washing cars in the rain to save rinsing them off.

[old phart]

Leaf blower was one of best purchases ever. No more mirror, side reflector, door handle, tail light ....... drips.

Brilliant!

[Shinjuku79]

I use one of these. £25 delivered and works every but as well as anything else. There's a more powerful one on Amazon now that I don't think was available when I bought mine. Search leaf blower and order lowest price first to see the range available.


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