Removing heavy tar spot / brake dirt from wheels?

I have a set of Alpina alloys which were looked after rather badly by my
ex-girlfriend. They have quite a lot of tar spots and brake dust
deposits that I'm struggling to remove. I normally use Wonder Wheels
(dulite acid) but it's not doing the job in this case.

Any ideas?

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"John Burns" > wrote
>I have a set of Alpina alloys which were looked after rather badly by my
> ex-girlfriend. They have quite a lot of tar spots and brake dust
> deposits that I'm struggling to remove. I normally use Wonder Wheels
> (dulite acid) but it's not doing the job in this case.
>
> Any ideas?

Don't know if you've got it over there, but TurtleWax bug & tar remover
has worked good for me. It's got some sort of "petroleum distillates"
in it: http://www.turtlewax.com/products/pages/t-520.htm
Took the dust off pretty well, and removed tar and pitch ok. There
are others, but probably not sold in the UK/Scotland.

FloydR

John Burns wrote:
> I have a set of Alpina alloys which were looked after rather badly by my
> ex-girlfriend. They have quite a lot of tar spots and brake dust
> deposits that I'm struggling to remove. I normally use Wonder Wheels
> (dulite acid) but it's not doing the job in this case.
>
> Any ideas?
>
T - Cut ?

Dave