Detailed Wheels and wheel wells

[Surfer]

Originally Posted by killrwheels@autogeek

what do you think of the General tires .... got lucky and found a new set of rears for 650.00 (Supercars) but was looking at General and Continental as reasonably priced options !! 295-35-19

I think my buddy had General A/T's on his F-150 and they were pretty good, seemed similar to the Michellin A/Ts on my truck, very grippy on/off road but smooth riding.

DR Mike - nice work

[justin30513]

Wheel wells are one of my favorite things to do. You did so good!

Looks like or better than new!

Thanks for taking the time to post.

[sparkie]

Looks awesome! Nice wheels!

[Nica]

The before and after pictures really showed your hard work. I'm new at detailing and I totally agree, every time I detailed my cars I never really paid much attention to the wheels or wheel wells and sure the car would look nice and shinny but you would always have the wheel’s and wheel wells looking bad. I think I'm going to have to get in the habit of cleaning the wheel’s and wheel wells really good.

You did a great job, I totally agree it looks like new maybe even better. Well done

[DrMike]

thanks again guys!

[Reddwarf]

I am impressed! What a difference you made. I see you even applied tire dressing to the inside part of the tire. That is a lot of hard work you did. Do you have a compressor with an air powered lug wrench? I've been tempted to remove my wheels and clean them like you did but I always get tired (no pun intended) just thinking about it!

Great job!!!!!!

Oh, and I love that car!

[DrMike]

Originally Posted by Reddwarf

I am impressed! What a difference you made. I see you even applied tire dressing to the inside part of the tire. That is a lot of hard work you did. Do you have a compressor with an air powered lug wrench? I've been tempted to remove my wheels and clean them like you did but I always get tired (no pun intended) just thinking about it!

Great job!!!!!!

Oh, and I love that car!

Thanks!

Yeah I think my tires got glossy from the wheel gel, or maybe they just look like that because they're wet, but I didn't apply dressing to them at all

I do have air tools but didn't use them. I just used the good ol' breaker bar. Lots of work, but definitely worth it

[YankeeFan]

I gotta ask ya as I have been loking around lately. What floor jack are you using. So many out there and I have no idea which are considered to be good.

Thanks,
Howard

[neverman]

That looks like a fairly cheap Chinese brand. At least it looks alot like mine which is exactly what I described. It worked great for years, I decided to flush it and now it only goes up about halfway. Man, I'm bummed... tried filling it every which way I can think of too.

[paul34]

Originally Posted by YankeeFan

I gotta ask ya as I have been loking around lately. What floor jack are you using. So many out there and I have no idea which are considered to be good.

Thanks,
Howard

I *think* (don't quote me on this) that it really doesn't matter so long as the jack is rated for more than the weight of your car. Oh, and not buying it out of the trunk of some guy in the parking lot usually helps too