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Old 07-26-2016, 10:32 PM   #4116
Apex_BRZ
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Originally Posted by CSG Mike View Post
If you get the wheels wet and/or expose heavily caked dust to extreme heat, you're effectively baking the dust onto your wheels...
I generally don't use the car hard enough to bake it on there, but that's definitely what's happened. I've only done 2 track days, and that's when I was learning a few years back before I bought the BRZ. They were painfully slow paced before I decided it was an awful car to learn with (it's boosted). Otherwise, it's been relegated to 1/2 mile racing so maybe that's what did it trying to shut it down at the other end? Who knows...gave up on getting them clean a while back.

I'm all ears if anyone has ideas. I had just planned on having them blasted and powdercoated some day. Anyway, different car so...trying to be more careful with the BRZ.

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Maybe XP12 is where they sacrificed paint friendliness for performance?

My XP10's have been similarly mild and washes away easily even after being left on through the rain and wet.
I use XP12's on the BRZ now, but I've only used them once so far at Road America. Seem to have washed off fine.
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