Hello I'm Matt Carter welcome back to Detail Peoria. Today i'm gonna show you
how we clean wheels and tires; the products we use and the techniques so I'll
roll that intro and meet you back here at the tire.
So with any wash process we want to start with the wheels and tires. They're
the dirtiest part of the vehicle and they get their own dedicated supplies.
What you want to get to get started is five gallon bucket with a grit guard, we
put an ounce to five gallons of water we typically up that a little bit in
this shop for these very heavily soiled areas. Then we've got all kinds of
different brushes and things to agitate that break dust off with. Of course I
also have a wheel cleaner and a tire cleaner dedicated solutions for those
two pieces. We are using a pressure washer, you don't need one to clean your
wheels you can use a garden hose just a force of water, but of course a pressure
washer is going to be the the best thing that you can use to clean your vehicle. I
always use 25 or 30 degree tip on the wheels and maybe 40 on the paint and
we'll get to that in another video but I've got that all set up and we start
with just a pre rinse of everything we want to get as much off the wheel with
the force of water before we have to touch anything try and keep the surfaces
as fresh as possible.
Some of the most overlooked things when it comes to washing wheels and tires is
actually cleaning your tires. Most people will just continue to cake on tire
dressing after tire dressing on to dirty tires over and over and they wonder why
it slings or it doesn't last or it turns brown it's because it's not being
properly cleaned. So we start with that and spray the tire cheaner on to the
tire all the way around typically let it dwell for a minute or so. So now that the
product has had some time to dwell you take a stiff bristle brush like this
agitate and you'll see it turn brown as it's pulling dirt and debris out of the
rubber. You'll reapply that product and keep going until it turns white
that's how you know that the rubber is clean. So now that the tire is clean move
our focus on to the wheel, we'll spray on our wheel cleaner allow that to dwell
again and let let it break up the dust. We have Sonax wheel cleaner plus this
has some ingredients in it that will react with the brake dust itself forming
a pretty neat chemical reaction as it breaks it up. It turns purple so you'll
kind of see it work it makes it kind of fun to use. It doesn't smell so great but it
works really well so just like any of our wash processes we're trying to break
everything up chemically as best we can use as little manual force as possible
to get the wheel properly clean. So we've let that dwell on there let it break
everything up now we'll agitate with all the different
brushes and the trick here is just to get yourself an arsenal of all kinds of
different brushes for your particular wheel that let you get into all the
different nooks and crannies and properly get the wheel clean.
Alright so we've gotten everything agitated (and rinsed) and now all that is left is
drying. One piece that I failed to mention was that you want to make sure
that you don't ever let the product dry on the wheel you also one thing that is
going to help you a lot is by making sure that your wheels are cool to the
touch before you get started otherwise if you've just gotten done running around
breaking heavily you're gonna have a lot of heat built up there and it's gonna
dry the product very easily and you're gonna really damage your finish if you
let that let that dry on there. The piece of equipment that makes this super
easy is the master blaster sidekick or any forced-air you could use a leaf
blower but to dry it you know you wanna use forced air. Alright so that's the
process everything is clean everything is dry so you're ready now to put on
your favorite tire dressing and wheel dressing if necessary. So that kind of
does it for this process stay tuned for other videos on other wash processes on
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