[jmciver]

One other tip to consider for you guys for cleaning and helping to keep your wheels clean…. While ceramic coating your wheels is clearly a very good option to help keep them clean and make cleaning them easier (the wheels on my M3 are ceramic coated), Gyeon Wet Coat is a good short term protection alternative. I use this primarily on my wife's X3 and my X7 (and I use it as extra protection on my M3 wheels as well).

To use it is very simple. Clean and rinse your wheels using the method of your choice. While your wheels are still wet, spray it on (a little goes a long way) then immediately rinse off. Dry your wheels as you normally would (a leaf blower works well). If you don't have any form of protection already on your wheels, your wheels will get an instant hydrophobic (and gloss) boost of protection. It is claimed to last 2-3 months, but the best I have seen is 3-4 weeks (on a daily driver that is parked outside). But that still makes the benefit worth it to me.

There are quite a few YouTube videos on using the stuff for this purpose as it has been around a while.