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Old Jan 12, 2007 | 08:19 PM
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Got 4X4? Took all my wheels off to clean and repolish. Going to clean/scrub my suspensiuon and wheel wells. Realign/polish my exhaust too.















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Old Jan 12, 2007 | 08:29 PM
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Looks great!! What did you use to get that shine? Powerball?

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Old Jan 12, 2007 | 08:55 PM
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Looks great!! What did you use to get that shine? Powerball?

That shine was a good wash inside/out. I have 1wheel repolished so far. I'm scrubing the wheel wells/suspenion right now. I normally wash my wheels/car once a week. So I can normally get my wheels about 8--85% back to normal. Then I take a gray microfiber and some metal polish and do the entire wheel.
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Wheels look great.
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Old Jan 13, 2007 | 12:02 AM
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Here is a teaser of the wheel wells.

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What are you using to clean the inner wheel wells? I'm in the process of doing the same to my car and have been using brake cleaner from Wally World. Just wondering if you had any secrets. BTW, looks great.
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What are you using to clean the inner wheel wells? I'm in the process of doing the same to my car and have been using brake cleaner from Wally World. Just wondering if you had any secrets. BTW, looks great.
I'm useing a degreaser called might red. Most degreases will work. Spray it on the wheel well dry and use a scrub brush with soap/water.
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Wheels look great!!!! now catch that refridgerator door......
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Starting to look good. I usually do the wheels off thing once a year.
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Cool! I need to jack my car up like you did and clean my fender well and paint my calipers You got it looking good though man!

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Ill be doing this when my rotors get here in a few days....Looks good though
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Great time of year to do that!
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Looking real nice. Might want to sand/paint those rotor hats while your at it.
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Looks allmost new good job!
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