Only if you want your wheels to look permanently clean and you enjoy cleaning wheels for a pastime. I do neither.
sun, the dust actually gets "baked" into the clearcoat enamel, then eats at the aluminum since it's stuck in there, at that point, your wheel is PERMANENTLY RUINED.
Can't say I've ever noticed any brake-dust damage on any of the cars I've owned in around 20 years of abusing them. Then again, we don't get much in the way of sun in the UK (if that has anything to do with it).
Oh yes it is!
Even assuming I somehow manage to completely knacker the varnish, how will this affect the ability of the wheel to operate? Surely It'll just affect its ability to look nice.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying cleaning your wheels or hand-washing your car, loads of people do. I'm not one of them. I don't enjoy it and I don't spend my spare time doing things I don't enjoy.
Right, time to trim that bloody hedge... Doh!
Cheers,
Colin.