Hey I have a set of work VSXX wheels that have recently been refinished and the lips are now bare aluminum because they had to strip them down. What special things do I have to do to care/clean/maintain them now since there is no clear over the lips?

I washed my car today, it took about 30 minutes, and I noticed on one wheel after I wiped it dry there was a stain from water or soap or something in the polished finish on the lip and I was like WTF!? Does water permenantly stain bare aluminum, because I dont know what I did wrong, I tried using mothers aluminum mag polish to get rid of it, and it did a little bit, but an "outline" of the stain remains. I'm just scared because I just paid a lot of money for these wheels and dont want to ruin them....and considering it rains a good deal here...idk what to do. The water/soap only sat on the wheels for like 15min before I wiped them dry and it got stained that quick but IDK if it was from the water or the soap...or both?

bump for some opinions.

Mine are bare and they polish right up with the mothers mag and aluminum polish

use something like 22PLE metal coating, or optimum opticoat on them

Use a good polish - check out Liquid Metal Polish - http://www.brilexsolutions.com/ulfilimepobl.html

polishes up and has a long residual protection compared to most polishing materials

I use mother billet polish on mine. Wheel cleaner is a thing of the past for you. Wash with soap and water. Then make sure you dry them. Once you polish off the water stains wheels wax seems to help keep up on it. Just like Eric said 22PLE metal coating might be good but expensive. I just got the 22ple pro in the mail I might give that a try on one of my wheels.

polish with whatever you want. Then seal w/ POORBOYS WHEEL SEALANT the best stuff on earth 18 month since I last polished, no corrosion etc. It's like clearcoat in an can