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Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
How often do you run into some wheels where you’re better off leaving the barrels untouched and caked, because you know that if you decide to do them you might wind up with a variety of negative outcomes...
Have you ever run into wheels that present that sort of situation? If so, post your thoughts.
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
Yeah, wheels where the barrels aren't painted and they are just all rough and etched already...it's almost not worth doing anything because the improvement is almost non-existent and a short time later they will be back to the way they started.
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
Originally Posted by
Setec Astronomy
Yeah, wheels where the barrels aren't painted and they are just all rough and etched already...it's almost not worth doing anything because the improvement is almost non-existent and a short time later they will be back to the way they started.
Yes... That’s definitely 1 of the instances.
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With my most recent vehicle, I deliberately bought the cheap steel wheels because they came with plastic wheel covers that hide the wheel barrels. No more scrubbing the barrels for me. My wheel covers show a bit less of the barrel than your picture above. I pulled the hub caps off when new, coated them, and wheel cleaning is a breeze. I'll never buy nice wheels again. Plus, I'm old and the wheels always seem to be at the bottom of the car and hard to reach So I wouldn't touch them.
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
Remove them, clean them, sand/buff them to high shine and seal them. That's what I would do anyways if they were my off a personal vehicle
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
Originally Posted by
minerigger
Remove them, clean them, sand/buff them to high shine and seal them. That's what I would do anyways if they were my off a personal vehicle
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But they’re machine grooved.. I don’t think any amount of sanding is going to remove those metal grooves in the barrels. And I don’t think they’d polish out to a high shine even if they were brand new. They were never chrome like the face of the wheel.
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
This is what the barrels look like when new.
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Re: Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
If you drive the car daily it might be awfully tough to keep the barrels clean due to the design of that particular wheel but I fully understand the itch to want to take them off and give them a complete detail job. Just as long as it’s still something fun for you to do. Don’t feel obligated to do them if it becomes anything more than that. That’s the curse of detailing.
Treat it like it's the only one in the world.
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Wheel barrels that aren’t worth cleaning?
Originally Posted by
Bill D
If you drive the car daily it might be awfully tough to keep the barrels clean due to the design of that particular wheel but I fully understand the itch to want to take them off and give them a complete detail job. Just as long as it’s still something fun for you to do. Don’t feel obligated to do them if it becomes anything more than that. That’s the curse of detailing.
Yes yes I completely agree. You know how these wheels are... Very similar type of wheels on my Seville, and I actually cleaned 1 of those wheels perfectly clean once [actually it was far from perfect, but I got it clean] while it was off to replace the tire... Put it back on and I swear I couldn’t tell the dirty 1 from the clean. Lol.
These have a bit of a wider opening, but the more I think about it I’ll probably just leave them be. The bad outweighs the good. Thanks to everyone for posting.
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