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Hello, I was hoping you pros could tell me on a problem. How to clean a customers wheelwell good and efficiently, if I cant get a brush in there due to the lack of space?Feed back please
 
ayankeeman1968 said:
Hello, I was hoping you pros could tell me on a problem. How to clean a customers wheelwell good and efficiently, if I cant get a brush in there due to the lack of space?Feed back please
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That is could help me with a problem, sorry.
 
I've always just used a long handled brush with medium stiff bristles. Apc and a pressure washer also. Sometimes I need to turn the front wheels to get in, and sometimes the wheels are taken off. I hope that helps.

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I don't get great results with the brushes I have tried.

Instead; I use a black chenille wash mitt:

Black Onyx Micro-Chenille Wash Mitt, microfiber car wash mitt

I use a third wash bucket and use the mitt on the rims, then tires, then wheel wells. Working from cleanest to dirtiest.

Don't wash the mitt with your microfiber towels unless you rinse it thoroughly, as it will turn your wash water black.

I finish up with Griot's Garage Undercarriage Spray. I leaves a nice dark finish on the black plastic wheel well liners on my vehicle.

Griot's Garage Undercarriage Spray, Griots Garage Undercarriage Detailer, Underbody spray
 
allenk4 said:
I don't get great results with the brushes I have tried.

Instead; I use a black chenille wash mitt:

Black Onyx Micro-Chenille Wash Mitt, microfiber car wash mitt

I use a third wash bucket and use the mitt on the rims, then tires, then wheel wells. Working from cleanest to dirtiest.

Don't wash the mitt with your microfiber towels unless you rinse it thoroughly, as it will turn your wash water black.

I finish up with Griot's Garage Undercarriage Spray. I leaves a nice dark finish on the black plastic wheel well liners on my vehicle.

Griot's Garage Undercarriage Spray, Griots Garage Undercarriage Detailer, Underbody spray
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Great tips there mate !
 
APC, brush and pressure washer. I spray full strength purple power let dwell while i'm working on rims and tires then scrub the wells and hit them with the power washer.
 
Spray APC and allow to dwell. If that is not sufficient, use a jack. Jack the car up a little bit at the corner you are working on, the wheel should stay on the ground giving you the extra cleanerance you need to get a brush in there.
 
Can you jack up the car and take the wheel off?
 
I have small compact cars, and wheel brushes do not fit in my wheel wells very well.

For the past 3 months I have been using these to clean them with great luck.

Special Purchase Microfiber Scrubber Pads, tire scrubber pads, cleaning pads

I also use them to scrub the tires. Just don't use them for the wheel faces because they will be really dirty from the wheel well cleaning.

Also, you will be putting your hand in the well to scrub, so go slow and watch out for sharp objects/parts. For instance my Dad's maxima has a rust spot where the paint has peeled off and left a sharp edge right near the fenderwell and I am always watching out so I don't cut my hand under there.

Drew
 
Here is a wite up mike has done:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...ps/62725-how-clean-fender-wells-lazy-way.html

Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
How to clean fender wells the lazy way!







Okay, the best way to REALLY get your car's fenderwells clean is to jack-up the car and remove the wheels and tires. This way you can easily get to the entire fenderwell area.



The problem with this is,


It takes a lot of time
You need to know the torque settings for the lug nuts and it helps to have a little experience in removing and then replacing and correctly re-torquing the lug nuts so as not to warp your rotors.
Did I mention it takes a lot of time?
So here's what I call the lazy guys way to clean fenderwells and that's to simply lift the body of the car. Don't remove the wheels, just lift the body as far as possible to create more space between the wheel and tire and the surrounding fenderwell.



Not a perfect fix to the problem but in most cases you can get enough extra space to make it a lot easier to get a brush into the fenderwell area and scrub, scrub scrub.



Here's what you need...



A good all purpose cleaner...











A good fenderwell brush...









A reliable hydraulic floor jack and at least two quality jack stands for safety reasons...









Lift the car

Choose either the front or rear of the car to start with and lift the car as high as the body will go without raising the tires off the ground and then place the jack stands at approved points where they are able to support the weight of the car and then carefully lower the jack so that the weight of the car is predominantly on the jackstands.









More Working Space

This is the working space you create by lifting the body of the car up using a hydraulic floor jack without having to remove the wheels.











Saturate fenderwell with all purpose cleaner

Next, spray your all purpose cleaner thoroughly over the inside of the fenderwell, cover everything you want to clean and later dress.























Agitate all purpose cleaner

Scrub and agitate inner fenderwell, frame and any other area or component you want cleaned...





























Yeah... it can get kind of filthy in the fenderwells...















Blast with water

Next spray a strong blast of water over the entire fenderwell area...





















You're probably looking at road grime that's accumulated in the fenderwells since this car was new...













And there you go... a clean fenderwell. Now do the other side...











After you finish with one end of the car, raise the car body, remove the jack stands, lower the car body and move to the opposite end of the car and repeat the process.









Have all your tools ready to go...











Using the lazy man's method you can do a pretty good job of cleaning your fenderwells fast and easy...





On Autogeek.net



Detailer's Cleanse-All Exterior Cleaner



Mothers Fender Well Brush
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ayankeeman1968 said:
Hello, I was hoping you pros could tell me on a problem. How to clean a customers wheelwell good and efficiently, if I cant get a brush in there due to the lack of space?Feed back please
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With really tight clearance your only choice is to jack up the car and/or remove the wheel. I have rather tight clearance with my 09 Toyota Avalon. My Daytona Speed Brush does a very respectable job of cleaning the wheelwell housing. For near perfection, however, I have to remove the wheel.
 
Spray with Megs APC+ let dwell, brush with Daytona speed brush, rinse with pressure washer and dress with hyper.
 
WRXINXS said:
Also, you will be putting your hand in the well to scrub, so go slow and watch out for sharp objects/parts. For instance my Dad's maxima has a rust spot where the paint has peeled off and left a sharp edge right near the fenderwell and I am always watching out so I don't cut my hand under there.

Drew
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Wheel wells and vacuuming is where I always cut my hands up.
 
WRXINXS said:
Also, you will be putting your hand in the well to scrub, so go slow and watch out for sharp objects/parts. For instance my Dad's maxima has a rust spot where the paint has peeled off and left a sharp edge right near the fenderwell and I am always watching out so I don't cut my hand under there.
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This is a very important point, always be careful when sticking your hands in places like that, I also find plenty of things to cut myself on under the hood when drying if I'm not careful.
 
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