Wheel well dressing of choice?

HowardPearson

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Spring is here and it is time to switch from the winter 15" to the summer 18"s. When I do the swap I like to give the wheel wells a complete cleaning. Normally I do not dress the wells, this year I would like to step up my game. I need a product that is durable because once the 18's are on there is not much room to redo it. I was thinking about geting some stoner's more shine less time. Are ther any other better products for this application??
 
Durablity is my top quality in such a dressing as is low to no dust attraction. Both kinds of tire dressings just seem to fail in either one. I've used the old Meguiars Engine Kote, an acrylic floor shine-like product, but it can be tricky to apply and needs to be wiped or else droplets can dry and not look grreat and be hard to remove.



Some have used Mop & Glo or Future floor shine with decent results. I'd say the results will depend on the particular wheel wells they are being applied to.



I'll probably give the Future a try myself and I was thinking about the clear Trim-A-Shield. It's an actual coating and supposed to be quite durable and give a gloss to plastic surfaces.



If you don't mind frequently re applying a dressing in wells, I'd say go with something like Armor All or simlar water based dressing: less dust attraction.
 
I just use a bunch of old crappy tire and vynl dressings (armor all, der tire stuff, turtle wax protectant :o, black magic tire shine, etc cut 50/50 with water. If you dont have those, you might want to consider buying Meg's hyper dressing and diluting it 5:1, or any old bulk dressing diluted 2:1 (TOL grape shine, etc). Stoner's is really a bit pricey to go around spraying in wheel bays, plus I find that it runs onto the tires/pavement. You might want to consider doing your bays with black spray paint, rubber undercoating, or if you want to get real fancy, black heavy machinery paint (Caterpillar, etc). That'll make it a lot easier to keep em looking good.
 
There pretty much all plastic so paint is out of the question. Once the wells are clean they look nice. Im in the market for a product to give them a dressed look. I think I might pic up some of the hyper dressing.
 
themightytimmah said:
I just use a bunch of old crappy tire and vynl dressings (armor all, der tire stuff, turtle wax protectant :o, black magic tire shine, etc cut 50/50 with water. If you dont have those, you might want to consider buying Meg's hyper dressing and diluting it 5:1, or any old bulk dressing diluted 2:1 (TOL grape shine, etc). Stoner's is really a bit pricey to go around spraying in wheel bays, plus I find that it runs onto the tires/pavement. You might want to consider doing your bays with black spray paint, rubber undercoating, or if you want to get real fancy, black heavy machinery paint (Caterpillar, etc). That'll make it a lot easier to keep em looking good.





TIMMAH! (south park reference, right?)



Wow, what an informative first post. I agree with all that you said, and have also thought about cutting cheap dressings with water for this purpose. In your experience, it looks just as good and lasts as long?



Turtle wax protectant (formula 2001 or something) actually looks pretty nice in my interior. Yeah it's cheap, but it also works well!
 
Griots Undercarriage spray for me. Used it on my GQ last year and still looks like new. If your tires are still on when you spray it, make sure you cover your tires with newspaper or something...
 
On my daily drivers I use Armor All Tire Foam ($2.44 at Walmart) or AA. I recently picked up some Formula 2001 at Autozone for .99 so I will be giving that a try.



Most of the inexpensive tire dressing should do. On my show car I use Griots undercarriage spray. Its a little pricey but makes the entire suspension and wheel wells look great.
 
Poorboy's Bold N' Bright or

One Grand ERV dressing.



Both are excellent wheelwell dressings.





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The claimabout Trim-A-Shield that piques my interest is that it looks like a dressing but doesn't wash off. Looks like one would have to get in there and apply it by sponge to the wheel well though.
 
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