What do you do about customers who have pick up trucks with mud caked in the wheel wells? Do you manually prep the wheel wells? Without manually prepping the wheel wells, there doesn't seem to be a way to get them clean?
Wheel Wells - MUD
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Waxman
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the only way to effectively clean very muddy wheel wells, rocker panels and underbody areas of a vehicle is by hand, with a water hose, medium or high pressure.
There a lot of variables for cleaning mud in the wheel wells. It depends what the composition of the mud is. Mud with a high clay content is very dense and can be as hard as a brick while mud with a lot of sand or soft dirt comes off rather easily A lot depend on if it has been there for a while, how much there is and how well it is packed in. The vehicle wheel well configuration as far as how open and accessible it is also comes into play. In some cases high pressure side washers will remove it. I doubt if just a water hose would consistently do the trick. We had a lot of off roaders where I was when I ran the washes. Normally the mud was removed of the front end of the conveyor by the prepper or drive on. On busy days we would pull the vehicle in a wash bay and remove it so it would not slow down the line on the conveyor while the mud was removed. A prep gun is really the only way to make sure it is completely removed.
Waxman
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i meant prep gun. the combo of that and a good underbody blast in a conveyor would work.
