Here’s a Porsche I take care of regularly. It was pretty dirty! But being that it is well taken care of and garage kept, clean up is fairly easy and only a basic detail is needed most of the time.

The wheels and calipers were extra dirty so a Deluxe Wheel Clean was performed on each wheel. I recommend this service on all sports cars or vehicles with premium or after market rims for a few reasons; first, you can not properly clean the caliper without removing the wheel in most cases. They don’t paint it a bright color and tag it with “Porsche” (or whatever else) just so it can sit filthy in plain view. Another reason is that the wheel fills out 99% of the wheel well. Removing the wheel gives you a chance to properly clean the wheel well and inspect the wear of the tire.

Lastly, as you can see below, you cant not clean the entire wheel with it on the car. Most of these types of cars have an extremely wide wheel, and cleaning only half of it looks pretty bad.

These are all AFTER pictures. Notice the rims and the bright calipers.

Todays post will serve a few functions: I wanted to showcase a few great products that I feel work very well, I wanted to clean the spare tire on my jeep and I wanted to show what a difference a deluxe wheel cleaning can make.

I had about 70K miles on this rim before it got moved to the spare tire position. It has sat there for about 10 months. Now being that this is a jeep, cleaning the wheels seems a bit overkill but brake dust is bad for any wheel (I’ll show you why in a second) and since this is a spare tire that I get to see the inside of every time I open my tail gate, I just wanted to clean it up.

After I removed the tire, this is what the inside looked like:

Notice how the letters of the tire seem to blend into the dirty walls of the tire. Also that blue coating is STILL on there from when the tire was new.

I sprayed the whole tire down with Amazing Roll Off. (use the search bar at the top of the page for info on this product) After letting it sit for a few minutes I scrubbed every crack and surface with a few brushes. I had to rinse a few times and repeat. I also scrubbed the tire and hosed it down after. There were a few parts of the inner rim that were damaged by pitting. Thats when the brake dust sits on the surface for too long and begins to eat the metal. I used a drill and a wire wheel to scrub the brake dust off. On certain rims or chrome this would not have been an option, but being that these are uncoated on the inside it wasnt a big deal. This tire is from an off-road vehicle thats also a daily driver. If this method can tackle this level of filth and come out looking this good than it will work for any wheel.

Heres how the tire and rim cleaned up after the scrubbing:

That looks a lot better!

Now that the rim has been scrubbed and there is not more brake dust, its time to protect it with a quality wheel sealant. By using a wheel sealant future contaminants will bond to the sealant and not to the rim. Of course this isnt forever, just like wax or sealant on paint, but for a wheel that sits on the spare carrier it will do great.

I chose Poorboy’s World Wheel Sealant. A VERY good product and great company.

Applying a few light coats to the inside and outside of the rim, I mounted it back up on the carrier.

Look between the spokes. Instead of seeing brown you see nothing but silver. A subtle and huge difference at the same time.

Now that the wheel has been properly sealed its time to treat this nice tire since it sits in the same location in the sun.

Im using Ultima Trim and Tire Guard Plus to coat the tire. It will provide months of water beading protection and a little relief from the sun. Not to mention it makes the tire look NEW not “NEWly greased up.” Oh and YES it dries to the touch! No more greasy dirt magnet products!

Finished! Looks like brand new! This procedure can be done to any vehicle new or old at your request.