Which Style Tire Brush?

[mikecatt13]

I am updating a newly purchased wash and am looking to do away with the old style 8" tire brush. I am looking into either a poodle or the new wheel wonder. Does anyone have any experience with both of these and have a prefference on which works better?

I have heard that due to the softer material, the wheel wonder doesnt do white walls very well. It also seems to me that because the poodle alternates between materials and diameters that it would miss parts of the whitewall and parts of the wheel. Is this the case? My thinking is that the poodle would do a decent job on both wheels and whitewalls but not great and the wheel wonder will do a great job on wheels and white walls would have to be done using a sprayer or something to do them both great. Looking for anyone that has experience with these different types to give any input that you have as all my opinions are purely speculation. Thanks!

 

[Earl Weiss]

1. If I had to guesstimate I would say less than 1% fo the vehicles in Chicagoland have whitewalls so whether or not it gets white walls clean is not a consideration.
2. I have tried the poodle and the wheel wonder from Erie. Nte that some unit modifications needed to be made to accommodate the wheel wonder. AFAIAC the wheel wonder is better at doing the wheels.

Erie makes them both so you can call Dan at erie and and him about it.

 

[mikecatt13]

Thanks for the info. We are probably in the same percentage of actual white walls, but I would conservatively estimate that 15-20% of our customers are trucks or SUVs that have white letters on their tires. I guess my initial thought was automate the wheel cleaning and use a brush that is going to do the best possible job and use a hand applied process of some sort to clean white walls and raised letters.

 

[Washmee]

I have a set of Poodle brushes and with the proper WW cleaner I get good results. They do an ok job on wheels.