Autoglym and Meguiars do alloy wheel cleaners but you have to use them sparingly and be very careful not to damage the lacquer otherwise road salt and water will penetrate and the alloys will start to ...

There are few things worse than the thud of a wheel hitting a pothole or the scraping sound when it touches a kerb. Help is at hand, however, as you can have alloy wheels repaired and refurbished to ...

Rex-Cut cotton fiber abrasive wheels are ideal for removing rust, corrosion, and thread-lock from pipe threads during oil field inspections and process maintenance. Click here for high-resolution ...

I have a Volkswagen Passat CC GT that is just over a year old. For some time I have been aware of rusting on all four wheel hubs which, apart from being unsightly, gives me cause for concern over ...

Truck operators and manufacturers are acutely concerned about corrosion of vehicle parts. “It’s huge,” said Todd Cotier, maintenance manager at Hartt Transportation in Bangor, Maine, during a ...

CARS.COM — In many parts of the country, a bent rim is the most common problem drivers experience with wheels, especially during the late winter/early spring pothole season in the snow belt. That’s ...

Almost all alloys corrode or rust to an extent. Corrosion is a type of oxidation, and rusting is a component of corrosion. Rusting occurs when the alloy is in contact with air and humidity, resulting ...

As useful as steel is, its main weakness may be its vulnerability to corrosion. Researchers in Korea have now developed a new alloy coating that boosts steel’s resistance to rust, by adding a simple ...

Pure aluminum (Al) is generally considered corrosion-resistant due to the protective nature of the spontaneously forming aluminum oxide passive film. This film acts as a wide bandgap insulator and ...