Vanishing Point

I never had much success with the Griots product, I like the Sonax wheel cleaner for stubborn brake dust and sintered on metal particles.

InTheZone

have you tried their wheel cleaner? how do you typically clean your wheels? spray then rinse?

I only use this wheel cleaner before applying wheel protectant or before selling any set of wheels. I had a set of powder coated bronze konig helium wheels and although I washed them almost weekly on the car I couldn't believe how how "new" they looked when I did a full proper cleaning. Griot's cleaner pretty much shows you the contamination running off the rims and if the spray rinses off clear you have a pretty clean rim.

Vanishing Point

I have and Griots didn't remove imbedded metal fragments from the inner barrels of the wheels for me. Plus it always seemed to leave a film behind even after rinsing. I use wheel woolies to agitate the loosened brake material after spraying the wheels as depicted in the attached video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMNIG49Qeoo

Topplayer

I have been using griots and sonax for years. Sonax is better IMO.
But I want to know how either effects the Volk anodized coating. I have a set on order so I want to keep them FRESH.

Both sonax and griots worked great on my standard colored Volks. Across 3 different sets nothing but positive results.

Vanishing Point

Contact Sonax USA for further question, but their advertisement includes anodized wheels .

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