Hi All,
So today I didn't have much time but I couldn't stand the way my fender wells looked after the winter so I got out some tire black and a sponge and went about coating the plastic fender wells. What a PITA and knees.
Is there a spray on product that I can spray and let dry and requires less kneeling and physical contortions than something that has to be hand applied?
Thanks
Bill
Hi Bill,
Sorry for the late reply, been busy creating new content - kind of kills my forum typing time.
As others have suggested, some of the spray on plastic trim shine products make it fast and easy to coat over the inner plastic fender liners.
The only thing I don't like about these is most, if not all of them, tend to be oily and sticky if they don't dry or you apply to much. This
accelerates the problem of dirty inner fender wells because now dirt and road grime are more apt to stick to these surfaces and build-up. And my guess is - the aerosol versions are NOT water-soluble - thus they will be more difficult to wash-off in the future.
The
Meguiar's Hyper Dressing IS water soluble but it doesn't come in an aerosol version so it will take a little more effort to get into the inside of a fender well. Because it's water soluble - it WILL be easier to wash off, along with future dirt and road grime.
Me?
I like things to be EASILY repeatable.
In this context - this means using
water soluble products. I know these areas will get dirty as soon as you drive the truck, (or a car or suv), thus I'm going to need to clean these areas again in the future.
In this context - the word clean means remove.
If a product is not water soluble it's not going to be easy to remove and it's also going to be messy. So back to what I typed above,
I like things to be EASILY repeatable.
A water based product is going to be easy to wash off and along with it all the dirt and road grime and it will be a LOT less messy to repeat this over and over again.
Another option would be to look into cleaning these plastic liners really well and then painting them with a high gloss enamel spray paint. Then in the future, when they get dirty you can treat like normal car paint to clean them.
AND - if they suffer damage, like chips from rocks flinging off tires - it will be fast, simple and easy to re-spray them after a normal thorough wash job.
That's my take.
This is why I so love OLD trucks. The inner fender wells are steel and PAINTED. You can actually use any simple AIO on them to clean them and make them shiny. And then in the future it's easy to repeat this process.
But I get it that the majority of us - me included - are stuck with new vehicles and all the progress that comes with them. Cities and states tend to be moving in the green direction of banning gas stations and next banning gas powered cars. More companies are making electric cars. Maybe as we move into this future they can come up with easy to take care of inner fender liners.
Here's the future - wonder what the inner fender liners look like?
Hope I was able to helps a little...
:cheers:
