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Portal Car Wash Wheel Cleaners – Effective Brake Dust Removal
Clean wheels are a key part of customer satisfaction in any portal car wash. Standard detergents often fail to remove the toughest contaminants: baked-on brake dust, tar, and road grime. That's why this category offers professional wheel cleaning chemicals that combine power with safety.
The primary product here is Alu Ultra 20L. It's an alkaline, concentrated agent designed for daily aluminum wheel cleaning. Its formula effectively dissolves brake dust, salt, and tough road grime, crucial for the fast cycle of a portal wash. It's safe for aluminum and painted rims, as confirmed by its popularity in both portal and touchless systems (see it in action). This product belongs to our wider range of wheel cleaning and defoaming agents.
Using a dedicated wheel cleaner is just one part of a professional wash. Other stages, like active foam, main wash, and drying, are equally important. Discover our full range of portal chemistry, including innovative DUO washing liquids, to provide your customers with a comprehensive, high-quality service (see our portal chemistry proposal).
Frequently Asked Questions: Portal Wheel Cleaning
- A portal wash runs on a fast cycle. Standard foam or shampoo doesn't have the time or strength to dissolve baked-on brake dust. A dedicated agent like Alu Ultra acts instantly on this specific grime.
- Yes. Even though it's a powerful alkaline agent, its formula is designed to be completely safe for aluminum, painted rims, and hubcaps when used in automatic car wash systems.
- The product is applied automatically via the car wash's dosing systems (like detergent pumps). It's typically one of the first steps (a pre-spray) where the agent is applied directly to the wheels before the main brush wash.
- Absolutely. As the full product name indicates (Alu Ultra 20L ADR), it is universal and perfectly suited for the "wheel spray" program in touchless self-service washes as well.
- Besides effective wheel cleaning, the key products are: active foam, a brush-wash shampoo (e.g., DUO 2in1 Strong), wax (e.g., Ceramic Wax), and a drying agent (we recommend Dry Max, which is in its own category).