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Never, you cant really see in there anyway
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Do You Clean The Inner Barrells of Your Wheels?

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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 10:54 PM
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Default Do You Clean The Inner Barrells of Your Wheels?

Just curious who cleans the inner barrells of their wheels and who doesn't. Vote or DIE?

If you do clean them, what do you use as far as products and tools go?

In the past I never have. You never see in there really and it just hasn't been needed before. I've got some very nice wheels for the GTO now and think I need to keep it clean in there. Need to know what to use as far as products and/or brushes/rags/elbow grease goes. Thanks.
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 10:58 PM
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I use a wash mit and castrl wheel cleaner, does wonders for the calipers to. Mine still look new @ 81,000 miles
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 11:09 PM
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Meguiars makes a great wheel brush.. It's basically a baby bottle brush that makes cleaning the inside of the wheels a piece of cake.
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Old Jan 3, 2007 | 11:53 PM
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If your wheels are off, bust out some bulk Simple Green. Get a big bucket and put a wheel with soem green/water mix in, wash and your done. I tried it on one of my old stockers, **** works like a charm.

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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 12:08 AM
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i take my rims off about once every two months and polish the barrel
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Speed Density
If your wheels are off, bust out some bulk Simple Green. Get a big bucket and put a wheel with soem green/water mix in, wash and your done. I tried it on one of my old stockers, **** works like a charm.

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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 01:52 AM
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Looks good when you polish the inside too! Simple green then powerball the hell out of em!
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 06:53 AM
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I clean them twice a year.
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Cleaned everytime the car gets washed. Two different shaped wheel brushes and some Griot's wheel cleaner made by BBS.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 07:23 AM
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what if they're really caked on with brake dust?
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 09:26 AM
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I didn't it too often with the stockers, but now that's it's a weekend warrior with different rims that I care about, every couple of washes I'll hit them up.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:29 AM
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I only used to clean the inside if I had the wheels off the car for some reason now I'm more aware of how they look and will try and do it more often but not all of the time.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:02 PM
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I do it only if the rims are off for new tires. Other than that screw the inside of the rims.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:28 PM
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I clean and polish the barrels as you can see them with the wheel design, If I had some mesh designed wheels then I would only clean them once a year or so.

The barrels did not come polished so I used 600 and 1000 grit sand paper first then switched to buffing wheels and compounds to get the proper shine. For clean-ups Simple Green works good to clean and Mothers Billet to polish.

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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:33 PM
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Once a month at the very least.
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damn, are those HRE? sick lookin wheels

I am actually thinkin about gettin the inner barrel powdercoated black so i don't have to worry about it.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:38 PM
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SSLS1, those are some clean rims! I have been thinking to take off my wheels and have an extravaganza one day, but just havent goten around to it. I need to find some brake pads that dont suck and dont put out much dust.
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Old Jan 4, 2007 | 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Phoenix 5.7
damn, are those HRE? sick lookin wheels

I am actually thinkin about gettin the inner barrel powdercoated black so i don't have to worry about it.

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When I had my TT IIs done in a custom gunmetal they were gonna do the barrels but ran out of color and i ran out of time so I gots to polish em
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Old Jan 5, 2007 | 12:00 AM
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ive done it twice since i had my car. it does make a hell of a difference but its such a pain in the ***
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Old Jan 5, 2007 | 12:37 AM
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I did it today, but SSLS1 just put me to shame!!
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