Do you regularly hose out your wheel arch rims?
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I appreciate that this is a bit dull to say the very least and I feel very ashamed, but......
Do you clear out your wheel arch rims with hose nozzle and fingertips when washing your car?
I know that wheel arch liners can often put something of the kybosh on regular wheel arch cleansing, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
Ps I'm genuinely not taking the piss - and I really am interested as to the general approach on this. I own an E46 which so far, hasn't yet rusted to a brown crispy hulk like many before it. But when I bought it, its wheel arches were solid with mud as if nobody had ever cleared them or even thought of doing so. I didn't check on the day as I was frothing at the mouth. Subsequently clearing out the crud and realising that the coating underneath was smoothly coated and sound was a great relief and I always keep these areas clear.
Do you do this?
Do you clear out your wheel arch rims with hose nozzle and fingertips when washing your car?
I know that wheel arch liners can often put something of the kybosh on regular wheel arch cleansing, but I'm sure you know what I mean.
Ps I'm genuinely not taking the piss - and I really am interested as to the general approach on this. I own an E46 which so far, hasn't yet rusted to a brown crispy hulk like many before it. But when I bought it, its wheel arches were solid with mud as if nobody had ever cleared them or even thought of doing so. I didn't check on the day as I was frothing at the mouth. Subsequently clearing out the crud and realising that the coating underneath was smoothly coated and sound was a great relief and I always keep these areas clear.
Do you do this?
Tickle said:
I do mine every now and again, especially if I have used the car in the winter on salted roads. I usually take the wheels off, snow-foam and then spray everything under the arches with a decent corrosion block like ACf-50.
The daily has bigger gaps between the wheels and arch so no need to take the wheels off to snow-foam.
Excellent.The daily has bigger gaps between the wheels and arch so no need to take the wheels off to snow-foam.
ging84 said:
i don't think you need to go as far as taking the wheels off, but making sure the wheel arches get a good blasting everyone couple of weeks to a month in winter is probably the most important maintenance step there is if you want a modern vehicle to last
and off course when it get really cold and the salt is at it's highest, so you need it the most all the car washes shut down due to the risk of damage from frozen pipes
I'm tempted to dinitrol the wheel arch rims. I don't drive the E46 in winter though. I'm not sure it would last very long. Dry weather only now.and off course when it get really cold and the salt is at it's highest, so you need it the most all the car washes shut down due to the risk of damage from frozen pipes
OK, well I think I'm going to have to be a bit more proactive about it.
The rear wheel arches are open and I just clear them. The front arches have liners and I'm a bit worried about them as they're not accessible and when I hose them out, I think i may be re hydrating the crap that's amassed behind.
Front wheels and liners off from now on.
The rear wheel arches are open and I just clear them. The front arches have liners and I'm a bit worried about them as they're not accessible and when I hose them out, I think i may be re hydrating the crap that's amassed behind.
Front wheels and liners off from now on.
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