Wheelwell Detailing

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I had only intended to pull the front wheels off my ride to clean the rims thoroughly - which, to me, means I need to get all the brake dust off the inside of the rims as well - and somewhere along the line I decided I would clean the wheelwells also.

It was fun but took forever, in my typical fashion, lol.



Lucky Joe,
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Very nice transformation, good job bud! Did you use anything to seal the wheel wells with anyhing? (Nuba/sealant/ect)

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Guess I should of stated ** on the metal/painted areas. Not the liner.

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Wow! By the way, what exactly can you use on wheel wells? Mine are plastic-lined and I have used a sealant, but it gives the black plastic a gray tint. Also, what can be used on wheel wells that are not lined?
 
I've been using meguiars m40. Hyper dressing works too.
 
crownpointgeek said:
Wow! By the way, what exactly can you use on wheel wells? Mine are plastic-lined and I have used a sealant, but it gives the black plastic a gray tint. Also, what can be used on wheel wells that are not lined?
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I've been using the cheapest aerosol tire cleaner (I can find at the time). Just spray away.

May not be the 'best' method, but it seems to work well.

Bill
 
I used Meg's Extreme Black and shone my 1000W spotlight on it for a while to cure / dry it out before buffing it out with an old terry cloth applicator.

I'm curious to see how long it takes to get gunked beck up

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Nice clean wheel wells. It does take time to even do them reasonably well.
 
ASD & HD for me

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crownpointgeek said:
Wow! By the way, what exactly can you use on wheel wells? Mine are plastic-lined and I have used a sealant, but it gives the black plastic a gray tint. Also, what can be used on wheel wells that are not lined?
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I clean with grime reaper and a pressure washer and then dress with either bare bones or GG. Makes a big difference.
 
I clean with dp cleanse all exterior cleaner at each wash. Soak them down, agitate with a mothers wheel well brush, then rinse. Does a great job of cleaning them. Then I dress with CG bare bones. I give them a wipe with a foam applicator just to even out blotchiness. Works great, looks awesome. To me, wheel wells are one of those areas that sets those who are picky apart from those who aren't. To me, it drives me crazy when you're driving me to to someone at night and your headlights are shining along side someone's car next to you, and their car is all clean and shining, tires shines, then the wheel wells are dull and dirty, yuck. That's just me though :p
 
crownpointgeek said:
Wow! By the way, what exactly can you use on wheel wells? Mine are plastic-lined and I have used a sealant, but it gives the black plastic a gray tint. Also, what can be used on wheel wells that are not lined?
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Hi..

A friend of mine told me about Griots Undercarrage cleaner... i bought it ,,, tried it and it works fantastic...

you can actually just spary it on, ( even if it dirty ) and it will make the dirty shine... but if you clean normaly first .. then just spray inside the wheel well, and just leave it, dont wipe it, it works even nicer...

JD
 
I soaked the entire area in a Bug & Tar, waited ten minutes and would it down and repeated where the tar was crystallized. Then I misted everything with a water bottle and soaked everything in Blue Magic's Wheel Cleaner and grabbed my tire brush and started scrubbing all the metal surfaces as best I could.

The entire project with accomplished products off the shelf from Wally World. I can't wait to start buying better products but for now I just compensate by adding more "passion", lol.

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BillE said:
I've been using the cheapest aerosol tire cleaner (I can find at the time). Just spray away.

May not be the 'best' method, but it seems to work well.

Bill
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I thought I was doing good when I did that too! These folks make me look lazy!

I use APC or tire cleaners,and I use a brush and/or a mitt to clean the wells. I use tire foam or whatever protectant I'm using on the tires or trim for the final step.

One of these days I'm going to try a product like CG Bare Bones or Griot's Undercarriage though!
 
WAXOFF said:
Fantastic job. Does it snow where you live?
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Not frequently but instead of salt they use something far more hideous. They mix a brine solution with beet juice and spray it on the roads to which I can only groan...

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Wow, great job!
Is this car daily driven or more of a weekend toy?

Either way that has come up better than new & now the hard work has been done hopefully a regular quick going-over will keep it looking fresh...
 
neat e34 said:
Wow, great job!
Is this car daily driven or more of a weekend toy?

Either way that has come up better than new & now the hard work has been done hopefully a regular quick going-over will keep it looking fresh...
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Yes, it's my Daily Driver and if you look in the Introduce Yourself forum for my "are you kidding me..." thread you can see a picture of what it looked like as I cleaned and buffed out the paint the job by hand. It took like 30+ man hours but other than the bits I was complaining about it came out really nice.

I still need to do the rear-passenger wheel and wheelwell and then I can start on reconditioning the interior - it's been like two months since I gave the leather & dash some TLC, lol.

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