This is happening on all the wheel bolts on our 6 month old car.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Cheers,

P

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Mine are fine. Do you use a hand car wash by any chance ?

Mine have plastic covers so not noticed.

Btw what kinda of wheel cleaner do you use...maybe very harsh.

Those are only the plastic covers -probably an aggressive (acidic) wheel cleaner has caused that

A new set used to be around £15

Hi

 

Yes this is happening to mine. they are the plastic covers.

 

I suspect it it wheel cleaner that is doing this.

 

pete

Mine are fine. Do you use a hand car wash by any chance ?

I do...!

P

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As greenstripe said it will be the wheel cleaner. They usually use the real nasty stuff that will do this or bleach them white. Just imagine what it's doing to the clear coat on your wheels.

Mine are fine. Do you use a hand car wash by any chance ?

 

 

I do...!

P

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Then you should be more worried about your paint than the bolt covers.

Acid!

 

One very good reason not to use any form of roadside car wash.

Had this discussion with my neighbour, who can't understand why I would waste time washing my own car when : "..the lads round the corner will make it look new for a fiver..."

I just told him to take a good look at his after a year.

Edited 14 June, 201411 yr by classic

Had this discussion with my neighbour, who can't understand why I would waste time washing my own car when : "..the lads round the corner will make it look new for a fiver..."

I just told him to take a good look at his after a year.

 

Very true… car valet and most notably professional detailers exist for a reason.

 

Go through a professional detailers website (like Polished Bliss) and you'll generally see that they detail alkalinity/acidity of the products they recommend and the best practices/conditions for their use, and then compare with the stuff your local hand wash uses (which is probably commercially graded and more suitable cleaning for vans and trucks) and the stuff you can buy at the most well known DIY sheds and car accessories retailers, which you'll quickly see is designed for the quickest result with the least effort!

 

I also loose track of how many times I've seen employees of local 'hand washes' and helpers at charity car washes slapping wet sponges straight onto un-rinsed grit laden cars and dropping wash mitts, drying towels etc. on to the floor only to pick them up and with no more than a cursory flick then continue to rub the grit they just picked up straight into the paintwork… I've even witnessed one spraying engine de-greaser onto car wheels as a quick solution to getting rid of the brake dust!

Classic problem of plastic bolt covers attacked by aggressive cleaners.

 

I've experienced this twice on my Octy2 and you can (if you have a lot of patience!!) bring them back to life with something like metal polish and a lot of elbow grease. But I would not recommend it.

 

The reason I'm posting this is that people here are having a pop (probably rightly) at the "hand wash" brigade, but the last time it happened to me it was at a Skoda main dealer as part of their "valet" service following an annual service. Moral is - wash the car yourself then you only have yourself to blame if it all goes belly up.

Edited 14 June, 201411 yr by Minimoke

I wash the car myself and give it a good wax periodically, but the reality is sometimes I don't have time so need to run it by the car wash!

Cheers for the info guys.

P

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