clean mesh grille
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mikenap
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Stokdgs
dansautodetailing.com
I am totally in step with Mike - Wheel Woolies - they are sized pretty good, dense, hold lots of soap, dont scratch, dont fall apart and break, clean really great.
The brush works good too, but the wheel woolies are definitely cleaning inside of the grills with pressure on all sides of the opening at once. I would use this brush if I didnt have wheel woolies, or this brush and steam.
Dan F
Dan F
The brush works good too, but the wheel woolies are definitely cleaning inside of the grills with pressure on all sides of the opening at once. I would use this brush if I didnt have wheel woolies, or this brush and steam.
Dan F
Dan F
Beemerboy
Just One More Coat
How about a brush?
This is what I'm using!
Paul Sparks
New member
Daughter-in-law has me clean her GMC Denali which has a million small holes in the two piece chrome grill. After cleaning with a brush I apply polish with a foam pad on a stick from Hobby Lobby.The foam will compress enough to go in those small holes an then use my finger in a mf towel to polish out. Slow but looks great afterwards.
Beemerboy
Just One More Coat
I do a one just like this, if you open the hood with a long handle brush you can wash the grill from the back side. I found this to be key in getting it clean. Or if you have a pressure washer ( I don't) you can spray APC on the inside, let dwell and then pressure wash off
I had a monster mess black gill below the bumper on my old M35X and I used a SV style brush. Spray APC or car wash and let sit, poke at each opening and twist as you poke and it worked great.
Todd@RUPES
Just a regular guy
Smallest size wheel woolie!
Orinda Auto Detail
Opti Coat Pro Certified
If your 100% sure its chrome I always take that stuff off the car and wash it with wheel acid BLING
it is chrome plated plastic like everything else. What I am looking for is some kind of buffing pad I can stick on a drill to clean and shine in between the mesh after I wash it.I looked at Walmart but the cone pad looked a little big. Don't know if it will get in between the mesh. I haven't seen any wheel woolies in stores where I live.
Todd@RUPES
Just a regular guy
There is a drill brush. Many. Go to drillbrush.com. I don't know how else to clean my mesh grille. It has like green crap hardened all over it. I brought it back to the guy that installed it (6 months ago)....he cleaned it and didn't want to tell me what he used. Home Depot won't stock them, nor will Lowes. This guy has tried to have them carry his inventory. A HUGE selection with all different bristle stiffnesses too. He thought of everything. I swear to God, I don't know this drill brush guy whatsoever.....it's just that I had been looking for the same thing. What I found was a nice, 4" wide, soft bristle brush to clean the leather in my car. If it works I'll be in heaven. Then I'll use it on my boat. I'm ordering (actually, I hate for the owner to know this after speaking with him at length on which ones to get), but I'm ordering on Amazon because it has free shipping. I'm buying a few. There are all sizes and there are some super stiff ones. I hope I'm not disappointed. Actually, you can make your own if you don't want to order one online (much more money). Just go look....you might be pleasantly surprised. One and I was told ONLY one, will work with a 12" drill extension so you can get it difficult areas. If it doesn't clean my drill I don't know what else to do. I'm hating my beautiful mesh grille. It made my car.
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MiVor
New member
I also have a Silverado with a similar grill. I just blast mine with the pressure washer...but if I had to, I'd spray with an APC, let dwell, hit it with a (flexible bristle) brush, then blast with the hose.
Don
Darth Camaro 12/27/15
A thick, soft paint brush might work well for that. It would be faster than using your finger in every hole.
Accumulator
Well-known member
Well, there's cleaning and then there's *CLEANING*. If you don't let it get bad between washes you shouldn't have to do a big-production job very often. I hardly ever had to really work on the Yukon's perforated grille...or the other seemingly high-maintenance ones either. Well LSPed, you can clean 'em easily with a long bristled BHB and then do the QD/SprayWax with swabs, doesn't take all that long.
But when I *do* do the big job I use many coats of KSG and it takes a long, long time on some vehicles (each coat on the S8's two grilles takes maybe 90 minutes if I hurry, speedy compared to how the MPV was).
Eh, if I were only gonna have a vehicle for a few years I'd probably look into using something like Hydro on such stuff.
But when I *do* do the big job I use many coats of KSG and it takes a long, long time on some vehicles (each coat on the S8's two grilles takes maybe 90 minutes if I hurry, speedy compared to how the MPV was).
Eh, if I were only gonna have a vehicle for a few years I'd probably look into using something like Hydro on such stuff.