Cleaning 2025 M4 Wheels w/pic

[USMC G2]

Greetings,

After owning my 2025 M4 for nearly 30 days, I have washed/cleaned/detailed my wheels three times. I am shocked how much brake dust these wheels accumulate after driving 50 - 100 miles.

So I have a two step approach to cleaning my wheels. I also use a pair of rubber gloves for a little extra protection.

Step 1. Use a good wheel cleaner - I like Griot's products. Clean with a variety of brushes. I also use their tire cleaner with a stiff brush. After a good rinsing and blow dry from Griot's hand held blower (it's powerful and very lightweight). I realize how much of the wheel I missed. Keep in mind, it's only been three times. And, I'm getting more efficient at all the nooks and crannies.

Step 2. After a day, I go back with Griot's Ceramic Rinseless Wash with a simple cotton rag and a microfiber towel to dry. This second step allows me to correct my inefficiencies from my first attempt. Much of this step is with only my fingers.

My final touch is to add their ceramic tire dressing to the tires for a nice shine...yes, Marines love shinny things...boots, buckles, etc.

Hope this helps...my next approach is to try 303 Graphene Nano Spray on the wheels.

Semper Fi

[NickyC]

I just get ceramic/dustless pads for my cars. Yes, the initial bite isn't as strong, but I also don't spend tons of timing cleaning the wheels. OEM BMW dust is bad enough on a simple five spoke wheel, with the mesh design your wheels have that is torture to clean. Not to mention no matter how well you clean them, within 10 miles they're caked again (as well as all the brown rotor sludge that gets in the barrels). No way!

[M5Rick]

You probably got textar pads, I changed out to TWR pads when they wore out and much less dust on wheels.

[USMC G2]

NickyC

Believe me, my next step if 303 Graphene fails - ceramic coating and brake pads! Thanks.

Semper Fi

[335Transformer]

Originally Posted by USMC G2

Greetings,

After owning my 2025 M4 for nearly 30 days, I have washed/cleaned/detailed my wheels three times. I am shocked how much brake dust these wheels accumulate after driving 50 - 100 miles.

So I have a two step approach to cleaning my wheels. I also use a pair of rubber gloves for a little extra protection.

Step 1. Use a good wheel cleaner - I like Griot's products. Clean with a variety of brushes. I also use their tire cleaner with a stiff brush. After a good rinsing and blow dry from Griot's hand held blower (it's powerful and very lightweight). I realize how much of the wheel I missed. Keep in mind, it's only been three times. And, I'm getting more efficient at all the nooks and crannies.

Step 2. After a day, I go back with Griot's Ceramic Rinseless Wash with a simple cotton rag and a microfiber towel to dry. This second step allows me to correct my inefficiencies from my first attempt. Much of this step is with only my fingers.

My final touch is to add their ceramic tire dressing to the tires for a nice shine...yes, Marines love shinny things...boots, buckles, etc.

Hope this helps...my next approach is to try 303 Graphene Nano Spray on the wheels.

Semper Fi

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I was shocked to see my foamer did absolutely nothing to the brake dust on the wheels. And then cleaning kind of pushed the dust around to some extent. I need to figure out something that will actually have some reaction with the brake dust and get it off the wheels. And then the shapes of the wheel are impossible!

[chefwong]

Any decent wheel cleaner should remove *most* brake dust from the wheel followed by a rinse with the Pressure Washer IMO.

However, even as such, you still need to follow up with a wheel mitt or the like to mechancally clean the bio-film that is on the surface. HP Rinse or Hose Pressure fine at this point, as the mitt agitation was sufficient enough for the final step.

What wheel cleaner are you using ?