This may be old hat to some of you, but I unexpectedly found something to clean my wheels completely, from front to back.

I was poking around the garage and found an old California Duster - you know, those fuzzy rainbow-ice-pop looking things. It's long and flexible. I sprayed my wheels with whatever I had - Mother's Wheel Cleaner? - wetthe duster, and ran it through all the openings. It even gets the backs of the spokes. The wheels came out as all-over-&-under clean as if I pulled them off the car and cleaned them.

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im still not sure what you discovered... any picts?

 

ken, its a duster that used to be the rage in cleaning utensils. It has a wooden handle and a bottle brush looking end of soft bristles. Most of them were rainbow colored (for pzazz, I guess) and you were supposed to be able to clean everything with them from ceiling fan blades to venetian blinds, and lampshades, etc. All that stuff.
Thanks for the tip, Eric! I will look fo mine. Also, on a related topic, I use the wheel cleaning spray on my chrome exhaust ends, which turn black and 'carbony' with every drive.

 

ahh, anything rainbow i kinda stay away from.

 

I had one of the dusters tucked in a pantry closet, so I dug it out along with some tire cleaner and went out to the garage and tried it on my white wheels. Works pretty well, especially for the brake dust. Thanks for the idea! I'd never thought of it.