so on today's episode of stauffer garage guys we're gonna be doing something
specific we're gonna be cleaning the wheels tires and wheel well on my cla45
AMG and the main reason why you want to do this is after winter the inside wheel
well wear your Shox axles your brake caliper is the inside of your wheel drum
on the backside the wheel in general is a very dirty spot of the car it is
probably the dirtiest component because it is what touches the road and runs
over from roadkill to dirt and if you guys are new hit subscribe down below
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without further ado let's get cleaning
now for watching this air the vehicle I'm just using the same soap I use on
the outside of the vehicle filling my bucket up with soapy water and then drop
it in all of my tools that I use only for this area for a pretreatment I have
filled up my sprayer with Eagle one all wheel and tire clean it does a really
good job as an initial pre soap to get all of that grime that's built up inside
this area of the vehicle
now for cleaning of the caliper itself I'm using my Fox clean detailing brushes
to agitate all of the different areas of the caliper but then also I noticed that
all the drilled in holes on the rotor had been completely caked in with brake
pad material that I needed to pull out my pick tool and then also a small allen
head driver to completely poke through those so that way they were completely
clean and free of material
now once all the scrubbing is done I'm going to be following up with a iron
remover and this is just a product that you spray on it helps remove any iron
contamination it helps remove some of that excess iron that might have
collected on the surface that we didn't get off in the first part of the process
now to ensure the next time that these components get cleaned I'm using
McGuire's hybrid ceramic spray to coat the caliper the inner wheel well and all
the suspension components to minimize how much dirt collects and cakes onto
these parts
now for cleaning the wheels you can just use a bristle brush to scrub the actual
tire itself or if you have a drill brush it makes the process that much quicker
and you're going to be utilizing that on the inside of the wheel itself to speed
up the process
something you'll notice at the inside of the wheel drum there is some additional
staining the only real way that you would have been able to get that
completely clean would be to kind of lightly sand it with some sort of
sandpaper and polishing it that way but for the most part we got most of the
contaminants out to make it clean
now for the coating of the tire itself I'm using car guys plastic restore you
can use it on plastic vinyl rubber but I wanted to give it a shot on the tire to
see how long it lasted but also what kind of finish are provided and I was
actually really happy with the results
once again I'm using the Maguire's hybrid ceramic spray to coat the inside
and the outside of the wheel rim to help keep that dust and grime from collecting
on it but also giving a nice shine
if you guys are interested in any of the tools or products that are used in this
video I have them linked in the description box below for you
now for the cla45 I do plan on doing a full exterior paint correction in
exterior detail but for this specific video I wanted to just tackle the wheels
and tires and the wheel wells for you so if you have any other specific requests
go ahead and let me know in the comments below and once again the guys thank you
for being part of Stauffer garage crew and I'll see you guys in the next video