Chemical Guys WAC_303 Wheel Guard Max Coat and Rim Sealant, Safe for Cars, Trucks, SUVs, Motorcycles, RVs & More, 8 oz

I bought this from Chemical Guys after reading reviews and the sealant has worked well for me. I apply it to my wheels heavily before the winter months here on the East Coast and it has saved my wheels from weather damage and road salt. I use it on my late model VW GTI and apply it a few times a year for a nearly wet look and great shine. Chemical Guys sent me a 10% coupon on future purchases which never expires also so that is an added plus. This sealant is orange in color and can be applied easily by hand. After letting the sealant bond to the wheels for some time, it buffs off with ease. You may see some dirt that lifts off your wheels along with the dry sealant which seems to work exceptionally well. Chemical Guys makes great detailing products, some may be a bit redundant when it comes to their selection of waxes and spray cleaners, but this wheel wax is great for the price.

Update: have had this on my my wheels for 6 months and it makes a difference for removing brake dust. At least for several months. I thought the effectiveness had worn off, however, I just cleaned my winter wheels (which did not have the guard) and it was brutal. My car generates a ton of brake dust and this stuff is great and making it easy to clean. My only gripe is that the stufd is green. It doesnt stain wheels, but stains your hands. Ran out of gloves and my hands a green. Haha Note: I reccomend putting it on when (if) you change between winter and summer wheels. Much easier to properly clean and apply wheel guard. Original review: Easy enough to put on, non offensive smell, buffs out easily. Repels water and dirty well! I hope it will last for several months.

The good: the application process is easy, you don't have to scrub hard/pay much attention to what you're doing, etc. Cleans very well The bad. to apply either use a soft brush, or get a 99 cent 10 pack of disposable dish gloves - this stuff gets grime all over your hands. Once on, you just need to wipe off with anything you like. Paper towels work just fine - I'd avoid using anything not-disposable. The cleaning off does take time to get it all off, and if you accumulate a lot of brake-dust, you may have to go over a few areas again. So, I'm thinking - I'll just put this on BEFORE going through the full-service, drive through, carwash WITH tire & wheel cleaner. Right? rrrrrright?! I mean, jets of water... high pressure, movement. All things that *should* in theory, get all the wheel cleaner off and result in me having more time to spend on waxing the car. Except it didn't work out that way. I mean, the car wash got about 70% of it off, but I still had to don the disposable gloves and wipe each wheel down with a paper town, in it's entirety. A fun experiment, but didn't really save me any time.

Excellent item. Very easy to apply and remove. Coating held up well!!

Like having clean wheels, and this product works incredibly well. Brake test doesn’t accumulate as fast, so I don’t have to clean the wheels as often let you know is not an easy task. Just wipe on, let it sit for a few minutes wipe it off with a microfiber. Your wheels will be clean, shine, and you won’t have to clean it for weeks.

***MAKE SURE TO WEAR PROTECTIVE GLOVES PRIOR TO USING or APPLYING THIS PRODUCT, SINCE IT WILL STAIN YOUR HANDS! I wore a pair of disposable gloves, before I apply this wax onto my wheels and it still stains my hands! So I double up and wore a pair of thicker gloves which makes this product harder to penetrate as well as another pair of heavy duty gloves over it. Which seem to do the trick. So make sure you don't get this product over your clothes or other areas where you don't want to get stains! I can't say that this product actually guard my wheels from brake dust, if at all, but it does seems to provide a thin barrier or coating for shine and the wax also keeps the brake dust from getting baked onto my alloy wheels. I have performance brakes on my new BMW, so brake dust is inevitable. Which is why I wanted to get something to protect my wheels against the brake dust. This product is basically just a polymer wax, which you apply to your wheels and buff off afterwards. I usually let it set for 30-60mins before I buff it off...and my wheels are shiny and clean. This product does make cleaning my wheels easier and prevent brake dust from getting baked on my wheels, so this is better than not applying anything at all. I hope Chemical Guys will come up with a new formula, which will be more effective and guard better in WHITE or even better, a clear gel instead of this slimy green paste- because green is not a good color, and it stains! So a clear gel wax would be ideal. In the meantime, I will continue to use this product on my wheels, since it's still something to protect my wheels vs not applying anything at all. Since I haven't been able to find anything else that works better, so I will continue to use this product until there's a better product/formula that actually does the job of protecting/repeal my wheels from brake dust.

If you're like me and read reviews before you buy, you probably have questions. My wife has a 02 BMW X5 sport. If you have a BMW you know the amount of break dust is insane. I washed the wheels really well and applied the wheel wax. I read in other reviews about how hard it is to get off and it is even harder to get off tires. I'm not sure what others did to have these problems. I intentionally whipped wax on a tire then I waxed all 4 rims. By the time I was done applying the wax I was ready to start wiping it off. I went back to the well I started on and it wiped off pretty easy, I wiped the rest of the wheels off in the same order I applied. When I was done I wiped of the one tire I intentionally put wax on (it wasn't even white, in fact it was not easy to see it. I did find it and it wiped right off) Now to the how it worked part. It works awesome! Usually after washing her silver wheels they are gray within 3 days and black in two weeks from brake dust. It has been 2 weeks and they have hardly any brake dust, they're not even to the gray stage yet. I'm going to try their car wax next.

LOVE!! What a great product. I haven't used anything else as far as coating systems go so I can't say there is anything better out there. But after using the Chemical Guys Diablo gel wheel cleaner and now Max Coat, I'm busy doing the rest of my vehicles. I picked up my new '17 Grand Sport Vette at the museum in Bowling Green Ky and drove it 750 miles home. I'm not sure what evil material they put in those pads but the dust was incredibly difficult to remove from the chrome wheels. The Diablo worked better than the other cleaners I had but it took some scrubbing. Once clean, I coated the entire wheel as per instructions and after several more outings, the dust comes off with the lightest of wipes with a dry microfiber cloth. No cleaner needed. I'm very impressed! I can't speak yet of longevity but i'm guessing it's the best option to use if you don't want to scrub your wheels and risk damaging them. A few tips: Buy plenty of microfiber cloths, you'll need at least 2, maybe 3 per wheel and they will clog up quickly while removing the paste. Second, I found that any applicator simply would not reach into the nooks and edges of the wheels so I put on some latex gloves and just used my fingers. Lastly, try to avoid skin contact. I got a good bit on my wrist and forearms from the flopping of the cloths. I had a nice sheen on my skin for a day or two.