Cleaning your wheel well

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So, I keep cleaning the tahoe and never clean the wheel well. It looks like crap, so i tried and cleaner/degreaser and that seemed to not work at all. Any suggestions from you guys on what will bring back that nice black look?
 

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Washing a truck but not the wheel liners doesnt look good. Try Meguiars back to black Well at least I think thats what its called lol. Will look like new. Or even ArmorAll.


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Diesel. That shit works wonders bro. Just leaves oily residue when it goes away...
 

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I use a brush to clean them and then i spray em down with a foaming tire shine. It`s cheap and looks great.
 
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I use dish soap and a scrub brush. then painted them, they stay much cleaner now

What did you paint them with? Krylon plastics or something of the sort??

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Soakem in CD-2, then pressure wash them clean.

Then occasionally spray some of this magical fluid on them, they will be shiny and jet black 24/7

Will try this too. Thanks!
 

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I used rustolium semigloss. Only had to do it once in three plus years.
 

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Mine look like crap on my 07. I need to lower it so you can't see them as good. Lol
 
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I used rustolium semigloss. Only had to do it once in three plus years.

As i look at the pic, i just thought: what would his tahoe look like dropped while keeping those tires on.......

Anyways, thanks bud i appreciate it!

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So I just decided to give them a scrub down and spray paint them since I had the rustoleum gloss black in my house already (used on the bowties). Didn't turn out too bad. Now my spray painting ability sucks so I can't say it looks the best, but it is just a wheel well after all. Thanks everyone for all the insight!!

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Well, I forgot to do a before, but here is the finished look!
front drivers
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back drivers
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up close
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You can get Adams undercarage spray and looks great. I do it on all of the cars I detail. They look brand new.
 

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Looks good. Definitely an improvement. I just did the same with my wheelwells..expect i used a semi-gloss black. Makes em look like plastic
 

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i clean them and use tire foam spray along with my running boards and bumper cap
 

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Looks good, but just wondering is your drivers rear tire in the wrong position? Looks like it has a arrow on it facing the wrong way if that is the back drivers side tire. J/W?
 

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Looks good, but just wondering is your drivers rear tire in the wrong position? Looks like it has a arrow on it facing the wrong way if that is the back drivers side tire. J/W?

It does look reversed in his sig pic also.
 

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