Boys and Girls, I have been schooled......

The OEM brake pads on the front wear great and stop our cars on a dime, but they make the wheels oh so messy!

I tried a product several years back that was branded as a Michelin product that supposedly made the brake dust magically disappear from the wheels. The only thing that disappeared faster was the $8 I paid for that garbage. I might as well have sprayed water on the wheels and let them dry. There was NO improvement.

Now ArmorAll has come out with a new product called Wheel Protectant. I saw a brief commercial on TV that looked promising and when I took a stroll over to Pep Boys to do some window shopping, there was this big display with a "buy one, get one free" sign above it. I have to admit I am not a big fan of ArmorAll products (dates back to the original vinyl formula that acted like coating the seats with butter to bake in the SoCal sun...ouch!) but hey, FREE always sounded good to me.

I normally use a little sponge wand to wipe away the dust that turns the front silver wheels grey after only 10 miles or so of driving. I followed the directions and cleaned the wheels than gave them a liberal spray of Wheel Protectant and WOW. Here it is almost 3 days later and about a 100 miles of driving and a few hard stops...the wheels look same as the rear wheels (not sprayed).

I could wipe the wheels off a bit but don't really have to. THIS STUFF ACTUALLY WORKS!

Take a look at the ArmorAll video here Armor All - Product Detail

 

I didn't believe it either when I started seeing the adds. But washing the rims 3X week makes me *want* to believe I'm in for some now, thanks for the feedback


Mike

 

Looks promissing.
I'll have to get some for my own CAA test.

If my wheels are dirty when you see me in St. Louis, it doesn't work.
If clean, it works!

Stay tuned!

 

I might have to try this out, I too share the same feelings about armorall products. But hey, if it works

 

I've been usng this for a couple weeks and found that if you wax the wheels first with maguiers NXT then use the spray...nothing sticks!!!!

 

There's a rebate form on their website that gives your money back (up to $8.99) for the wheel protectant if you buy another Amorall product for $3.49 or more. Can't beat that!! The BOGO is not bad either, but I don't see that on Pep Boys website.

 

Bought and applied. Will put 1500+ miles on them.
Check out the results in St Louis.
See ya there!

 

Me too ...... Applied Adams Super VRT to tires, and then the Armor All Tire Protectant... what if we're the only cars that have clean wheels in St Louie ?

 

My car will still look better cuz it's not BLACK!

See you in St Louie!

 

Yo.
Already have dust from just from one drive to work (12 miles) and back.

FAIL!

 

See you in St Louis and we can compare "notes". Just drove from LA to Flagstaff on the way to CAA. Mild dust, wheels still look silver not gray after 450 miles! I couldn't drive 5 miles without having gray wheels.

 

perhaps... rotex gold? no need to reapply.

 

Yo tighed1 ..... I'm sure you followed directions on product, and applied liberally and waited at least an hour! Maybe it doesn't work on BLUE cars ...... you know "rejection" and such!!!

 

It must have something to do with the year and model. The Scan Guage ll works on mine and so does the Armour All. Go figure

 

Perhaps a real test would be to do just two wheels 1st, one front and one rear then compare the results!

 

The rear pads are a different compound. The fronts get real dirty real fast. In the last two days I have driven 900 miles on the way to St Louis. Are the wheels spotless, NO! Are they real dirty, NO! Only slightly dirtier than the rears.

Normally after that much driving the wheels would be almost black, mine are still 95% silver.

 

bought some today. Im going to take the wheels off the car, wash and wax them and then apply it to the entire wheel... i'll see how it goes

 

I put it on my wheels yesterday. Leaving from OKC tomorrow for CAA (500mi). Should be a oretty good test. I,ll post when I get back.

Joejet

 

Put 52 miles on car today ...... NO DUST to speak of. Leaving for CAA tomorrow, 300 miles .... we'll see what happens ..... but so far so good ......

 

Update.
Yeah there's dust on the wheels. I have to admit though that the amount of mess after 1100 - 1200 miles or so isn't too bad. As a matter of fact the "clumps" of brake dust that have formed do come off with ease. The bug pieces that managed to get stuck to the wheels also come off easily.
(Didn't clean the wheels yet, just did a test clean)

Should have done two wheels as mentioned for comparison. Oh well.