How to clean wheel wells on low cars

Toilet Bowl brush

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Simple Green (or your favorite degreaser)

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Make sure you get a brush that is slightly bent and that doesn't have extremely stiff bristles. I got one that has soft bristles and is slightly bent and it cleans the wheel wells perfectly on my lowered Jetta.:dance
 
I second the toilet bowl brush for this. I've been working on mine today and even though I can get my hands in there, it's much easier with a brush. Wiping down with a terry towel or anything you don't care about getting dirty is needed as well.
 
sixty7mustang22 beat me to the punch with the picture of the toilet bowl brush but that's what I use too and it's a winner for people with huge tires in little wheel wells.

The gap between my tire and wheel well is way to small for my hands but it big enough for the handle of that type of brush.

I spritz the wheel well with a strong APC like the purple Castrol stuff. Agitate with the brush.

The brush is too fat to insert on the top or sides so I insert it at the bottom of the wheel well, then work up, around and down the other side. Again, the handle has room between the wheel and the fender.

Once rinsed, I spritz with the pressure garden sprayer always filled with Armor All and all is perfect. Quick too.

-John C.
 
Joe Adamski said:
I have the same problem, and I was thinking of trying a floor jack. The wheels tend to drop as the car is jacked up. I have not tried this yet, has anyone else tried this before I go out and buy one?
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That is by far the easiest way to gain access to wheel wells with little clearance, for both cleaning and dressing.



That's what I always do; jack stands make it even more efficient.
 
Something I just thought about , that I plan on trying this weekend.



Lets say you thoroughly cleaned your wheel wells by jacking up the car or what not. You obviously do not want to be doing this every weekend. So what if after you clean your wheels and tires you spray the insides of the wheel wells real good with a strong APC, and instead of waiting a minute or two and rinsing off, you wait till after the car wash to rinse them. then dry the car. That should give the APC a good amount of time to really clean the wells as best as possible without having to waste any time. then all you do is follow with a good cleaning foam dressing like Armorall tire foam...



Then you can repeat the initial cleaning step once a month.
 
joyriiide1113- Noting that I don't find it that big a hassle to do it with the jack at every wash ;) I would't let the APC dwell that long. It'll drip out somewhere and get on the paint, stripping/compromising your LSP. So be really careful about where the APC ends up going when you try this. Don't want you to end up having to rewax or something.
 
Accumulator said:
joyriiide1113- Noting that I don't find it that big a hassle to do it with the jack at every wash ;) I would't let the APC dwell that long. It'll drip out somewhere and get on the paint, stripping/compromising your LSP. So be really careful about where the APC ends up going when you try this. Don't want you to end up having to rewax or something.
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Thanks for the tip, but how would the APC get on the paint? I would only spray the wheel wells. I'd assume it would just drip down. Just like when you apply a foaming tire dressing to them.
 
joyriiide1113- I guess it'll depend on the vehicle and how much APC you spray in there (and how you do it). I often have stuff that I spray in the wheelwells migrate to places I might not've expected and I didn't want you to have any unpleasant surprises. I clean the outer bit of the wheelwell (the areas nearest the "outside"/regular paint of the body) with a stronger-than-normal shampoo mix instead of APC for just this reason.



Here's something I find handy for jobs like this:http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?page=45512&category=2,2190,33115&ccurrency=2&sid=
 
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