Mshred, I'm on your side just trying to help out. I wasn't knocking you for polishing your wheels, I used to enjoy the pride I felt after my wheels were freshly polished and your right, it's not always easy to find the time. I'm only trying to give you some advice here. Probably 95% of polished aluminum aftermarket wheels are bare aluminum, if they had a coating you would be able to clean them but you couldn't polish them. I work with billet aluminum all day long with my machine shop and also own an aluminum anodizing company, if wax and detailer worked to protect the aluminum then people wouldn't be bringing so much stuff to be clear anodized. I'm not trying to make you feel bad here, just trying to give you the benefit of my experience, sorry if it came off the wrong way. Kev
