I've got the stainless 20's on my truck - not the chromed ones. Supposed to be 60 degrees and sunny out today so I'm thinking I might give my Ram a good cleaning. Is there any sort of coating on the factory rims or are they just raw stainless steel? I ask for a couple of reasons. First, I bought a stainless steel scratch removal and polish kit to fix a boo-boo on our brand new stainless steel appliances and I'm wondering if I can use it on my rims to fix 5.5 years of this or that. Also, I had a little body work on my front fender a year or so ago and when they clear-coated the paint, one of my rims caught some overspray and actually has a teeny bit of brake dust "shelac'd" onto the rim and I'm wondering if I can use this kit to work it off.

 

I'm interested in this too...

FWIW, my wheels shine the brightest when I use Greased Lightning to clean them. They look factory new -- much better than my usual Meguiar's wheel cleaner does. Spray - brush - rinse immediately.

 

I don't think there is a clear on those wheels. I didn't know they were stainless. I always thought they were polished aluminum???? Figured Stainless would be too heavy?

 

You are probably right dog. I had stainless on the brain because of the kit I have and the appliances. They are polished vs. chromed which are the 2 20" options Dodge was putting out at the time and probably still are. The actual metal I'm not sure about but aluminum makes more sense.

 

they make and sell polishing kits for metals and can be used on rims.

 

So far I have only found one product that takes the nasty white film aluminum gets from exposure to the elements and thats Flitz. I bought some from their website a couple years ago in tube. A little goes a long way.
Ive since seen it for sale in a couple of local aftermarket car, truck and motorcycle shops.

The stuff can really make some nasty looking aluminum, stainless and chrome look like new again...

 

If you have an angle grinder, get a stitched wheel, some black rouge, then some green rouge, then white rouge and polish through it with that, just be real careful not to burn them. That is the proper way to polish your wheels. That is what the truckers do on their alcoa's between every season, and acid wash, then polishing. Call dodge and make sure that their isn't like a durabright material on them though, because if you polish them and they are durabrights you will take away all the shine on them, they won't be so durabright anymore haha.