Wonder Wheels Original Alloy Wheel Cleaner: Review

The highlights: 

What is it?: It is a spray on alloy wheel cleaner.

Does it work?: Yes, but keep reading!

Would I buy it again?: I would if I had a fancier car! My car now does the job it needs to, and the back seats fold up out of the way so Obi dog has somewhere to lie down (which is frankly the main reason why I bought it), so I’m not complaining, but…given that my little put-put car is a 1.2 litre that takes about 3 hours to get from 0 to 60, and looks a little like a brick on wheels, I don’t think I need to worry about sparkling wheels! BUT if I still had my MG TF 115 (named Tiffany, and who I loved and adored!) then – Yes! Yes I would invest in this stuff because she needed to look pretty at all times!

Other options?: Tonnes of options out there for alloy wheel cleaners – a quick search on Amazon brings up loads of options.

Where to buy:  I got Wonder Wheels from Amazon 

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Wonder Wheels is super easy to use. As you can see, according to the container, it is designed to “cut through dirt, grease, and stubborn brake dust instantly”. Here's the how to use section:

As you can see, it also advises that you should test this in an inconspicuous area first - I guess just in case it reacts badly in some way. Also, there's safety information, as always, which reads:

The spray goes on as a liquid, and then sort of foams up a little as you work it with the brush. It’s not super foamy, but kind of gets some bubbles going on. Then, once you’ve brushed it and scrubbed it for a while (which wasn’t super hard work and didn’t involve too much effort), just rinse it off with plenty of water. In the application of this, I used gloves (because, if you read my blogs regularly, you probably know that I get very dry skin when using cleaning products) but the directions do tell you that you have to wear gloves and protective clothing and eye and face protection.

There’s 600ml in this bottle, and I didn’t have to use very much at all, so I think one bottle of this will last you a decent number of wheel cleans.  Here is the before video of my wheel - you can see, it was pretty dirty!

I would say that I didn’t really have the right brush for this! So I started with an old toothbrush, which did sort of work on the general dusty dirt side of things, but it wasn’t quite strong enough to tackle the more engrained dirt. So, I switched to a greeny. You can, of course, buy brushes designed for car wheels, which would be presumably also be less likely to scratch the wheels, so this is an option!

So, once you’ve sprayed it on, and lathered it up, you just rinse it off – this is what the whole process looked like using the toothbrush:

As you can see, there was still some black stuff, so I thought I would switch to the greeny to have a go at this. This did work better (clearly I had the wrong tools!):

So, this does work, and it works well. However, I thought, ok so does it work better than good old fashioned Fairy washing up liquid that you can get online from Amazon, Tesco, Morrisons, Iceland, Waitrose, Ocado, and pretty much every other supermarket and on the high street shop going. The washing up liquid seemed to clean the dirt off just as well as the Wonder Wheels spray, so in respect of cleaning dirt, I don’t think you really need this spray.

However, where it did make a difference, was the finish after the wheel had dried off. Maybe you can’t really tell from the photos, but the Wonder Wheel spray did leave more of a shine than the fairy washing up liquid. Here's my wheel after the Wonder Wheels use, and I can see the one section at the bottom where I used Wonder Wheels and the rest, which looks dull in comparison, where I used washing up liquid - if you can't see this difference, than maybe washing up liquid will be just fine, but if you can...:

Close up on the Washing Up Liquid clean once the water had dried

Also, once the wheels had dried, the washing up liquid parts had smears where I could still see some of the dirt that was left on.

Maybe I didn't rinse it properly? But I couldn't see those smears and streaks when it was wet, so it would mean having to go back and clean the wheels again, which is a waste of time really. Using the Wonder Wheels from the start would remove this issue, and that section of the wheel was sparkly and shiny!

Here's a close up of the Wonder Wheels part of the wheel after that section had dried:

Close up of Wonder Wheels cleaned section of my wheel after that had dried

So, I would say, you can use Wonder Wheels to clean your wheels (I mean, the bottle is pretty big and it does seem like it’ll last a decent number of uses), or you can use a cheaper option to clean the dirt off and then finish off with Wonder Wheels to leave more of a shine to your alloys. That said, if you’re not too bothered about the shine on your alloys or smears ad streaks left after cleaning them, then you could just stick with washing up liquid! Although I suspect that if you've googled this product, it's because dirty streaks just won't do, so Wonder Wheels is the way forward for you!

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with love

Rebecca

xxx

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