how to best clean my rims

06jaykay

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Hi

I am new to this site and GS's

just brought a 2002 1150 and the spooked rims are really dirty / small black stains

can anyone help with how best to clean them

cheers

Jason
 
Try some brake cleaner or some WD40 on a rag applied with Elbow grease or have them re furbed
 
The rims are Anodised Aluminium. So depending on how bad they are will depend on how you clean them.

Try not to use anything abrasive. I knew someone who cleaned his rims with Solvol Autosol and in the process had removed all the anodising. Nice and shiny they were, but he had to keep polishing them to stop the corrosion.

I use soap and water to clean the mud off, and I use white spirit to get any tar spots off.

As for the spokes, earlier models had plated steel spokes, some of the later models and the Adventures had stainless steel spokes.

Ian
 
If the rims are dirty or corroded then man the fuck up you bought it like that.....


:D

Because mine are the same after cleaning them perhaps 3 times in 12 years I'm faced with the same dilemma.
In my opinion, these rims are the work of satan. Damn him.

I'm in the market for some GSA rims because of BMW's utter shite finishing protocol on these.;)
 
I think Ian made the right comment. It depends if the black spots are on top of the anodising ie. Tar spots,brake dust spots. Or if it's fissures in the anodising that have corroded and collected crud...

Wash the rims first, then as Ian says, go gently at some spots with an oily solvent like white spirit or WD40...you'll soon see if the marks begin to dissolve
 
no smutty responses? You dissappoint me UKGSer
 
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