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IMHO alloys are the best (weight, looks, trueness)as long as they do not get in contact with salt. So no driving on salted roads and on the beach (writing from own experience with Borranis). I've got Borranis on a classic car. They're even more difficult to clean than chrome wheels and I've found most of the wheel cleaners are very poor on aluminium. Any tips for polishing ? Clearcoat them!!
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I have full stainless on my car and I have washed them a couple of times with a pressure cleaner. The results are excellent with no danger of scratching the finish, but then I read that pressure cleaning was not recommended. I asked the dealer and he said that there was no way water would ever pass the spokes into the tyre but then I thought that probably the hub end of the spokes is not sealed and water getting in to the hub may be a problem.
Can anyone (Dave?) tell me why pressure cleaning stainless wires is not a good idea?
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I use gunk and an electric toothbrush to get the muck off and then polish around the spokes with my little fingrs. It takes about an hour per wheel.
: This would have to be a garage job - the neighbours would think I had gone off my trolley if they saw me cleaning the wheels with an electric toothbrush.  They just don't understand see.
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I have been pressure cleaning my SS wires for 9.5 years with no problems.
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IMHO alloys are the best (weight, looks, trueness)as long as they do not get in contact with salt. So no driving on salted roads and on the beach (writing from own experience with Borranis). I've got Borranis on a classic car. They're even more difficult to clean than chrome wheels and I've found most of the wheel cleaners are very poor on aluminium. Any tips for polishing ? Clearcoat them!! I had them clearcoated (by a professional) but after some time (5 or 6 years) the coat began to lift in places and it looked worse than ever. Perhaps it lasts if it is done from new. To get the coat down again wasn't funny. From all the forums I visited I suppose there is no way to DIY-polish aluminium wheels satisfactorily without taking them completely apart - which nobody wants to do. Mike, what about the centres of your Borranis, do they have the same poor chrome plating as mine?
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I have full stainless on my car and I have washed them a couple of times with a pressure cleaner. The results are excellent with no danger of scratching the finish, but then I read that pressure cleaning was not recommended. I asked the dealer and he said that there was no way water would ever pass the spokes into the tyre but then I thought that probably the hub end of the spokes is not sealed and water getting in to the hub may be a problem.
Can anyone (Dave?) tell me why pressure cleaning stainless wires is not a good idea? I don't know about the wheels, but apparently pressure washing can cause internal damage to the tyre walls. Maybe that's why it is not recommended.
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As has been said, you shouldn't pressure wash sidewalls as it can penetrate the rubber and damage the sidewall. I don't know if this is related to steel reinforcement, but many years ago we had an MG club member who's tyres started making a funny noise. It turned out that the rubber had split, allowing saltwater into the steel wires which had rusted and were breaking up. This is the only occasion I've ever heard of this happening.
If you pressure wash wires, I think the biggest danger is forcing water into the spoke threads, and also into the hubs. If it can't dry out it will cause corrosion. Although maybe not that much on stainless.
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