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Old Dec 6, 2001 | 10:58 PM
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Cleaning... Fender wells

Here's something that drives me crazy... Ill see some one wash and detail there car for hours... but under the fender wells its still dirty. So when washing, spray up in there really good. then when your spraying your tires, shoot some up under the fender, get that really black... looks a lot better!
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Old Dec 9, 2001 | 09:35 AM
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I totally agree with Greg,nothing no worse than having a sweet shiney ride and having dirty fender wells.While washing your car go ahead and wash the wells while your at it and spray them with some tire shine or something

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Old Dec 9, 2001 | 10:24 AM
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I agree as well. I have a seperate "wheel well" towel for them. I hate when they're all nasty.

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Old Dec 10, 2001 | 12:43 PM
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I could not get mine clean for the life of me. I solved that by spraying new undercoating in there. Looks brand new now.
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Old Dec 10, 2001 | 01:51 PM
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I spray painted mine not long after I got the car, it looks a lot better now.

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Old Dec 10, 2001 | 05:35 PM
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When I detail a car, I always start with the wheels. That's when I get the wells. I use a really strong degreaser, shoot it on the tires, then in the wells, then shoot some acid on the wheels,(depending on what the finish on them is) then rinse everything. Then when washing, I hit the wheels, and the wells again.

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Old Dec 10, 2001 | 05:35 PM
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yeah, i had to spray some new under coating on mine. some of it was cracking and falling off. having that clean just makes the car look so much better! and sometimes shoot that lower air dam!
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