Idea for Felt Wheel Liners

[hooked]

In my neck of suburbia, there’s a site that was used to create sand from all the rocks the blasted out of the ground to be used in constructing all the houses. It’s still there and I think it’s still in operation but a strip mall has been built around it. One day, after a bout of heavy and prolonged rain, my wife drove through that area in our Mazda CX-5 and splashed through the muck from the factory and the stuff hardened like cement. The front wheel wells have the smooth plastic covers so I was able to scrub them clean. But the rear wells have that textured lining and it took a lot of elbow grease and scrubbing to get 90% of the crud off.

[PaulMys]

If you were to do that you’d be limiting your options quite a bit... So much so that your ideal vehicle could easily fall out of reach due to the wheel well lining?.

Damn right!!!!

Now you whipper-snappers get off my lawn!!!

[FUNX650]

Damn right!!!!

^^^





Bob

[camaro2ssblack]

Good topic OP. I hate these in my wife's Nissan Armada. Fortunately they are only on the rear but still a pain in the ass.

I hope Mike will chime in on this topic, I like your idea though...

[AZpolisher15]

What's the intended purpose of the "fabric" liners?

[Bradposton]

What's the intended purpose of the "fabric" liners?

I think for road noise

[DaveT435]

I think for road noise

I think it's a combination of noise and weight.

I've never used anything but a strong stream of water from the hose to clean them on my car. They turn out fine, nothing sticks. Once you start using a brush or do any kind of scrubbing you start fraying the fibers. At that point everything starts sticking to them and doesn't come out very easily.

[hooked]

Do you apply any kind of product on these textured liners after cleaning?

[camaro2ssblack]

I think it's a combination of noise and weight.

I've never used anything but a strong stream of water from the hose to clean them on my car. They turn out fine, nothing sticks. Once you start using a brush or do any kind of scrubbing you start fraying the fibers. At that point everything starts sticking to them and doesn't come out very easily.

Strong stream of water won’t get rid of real dirt and mud. That may work on a garage queen but not a daily driver.

[WristyManchego]

Strong stream of water won’t get rid of real dirt and mud. That may work on a garage queen but not a daily driver.

Nor the Grand Cherokees this #### appears on.