Cleaning the underside techniques?
07-04-2013, 12:41 PM
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Le Mans Master
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Cleaning the underside techniques?
Happy 4th!
Wanted to see what my fellow **** cleaning addicts do for cleaning the under side of their cars.
The past I have used a power washer with Simple Green but the results are not very good. I think the problem is mainly that I think don't have a lift and never will. No one rent bays anymore. Ramps don't let me get the nozzle in all the areas.
Googled some and saw sime really crazy ideas. The craziest was to use easyoff oven cleaner! No way!
Other than building a garage that I could actually house a lift in, what have you guys done and used to thoroughly and safely clean the belly?
Wanted to see what my fellow **** cleaning addicts do for cleaning the under side of their cars.
The past I have used a power washer with Simple Green but the results are not very good. I think the problem is mainly that I think don't have a lift and never will. No one rent bays anymore. Ramps don't let me get the nozzle in all the areas.
Googled some and saw sime really crazy ideas. The craziest was to use easyoff oven cleaner! No way!
Other than building a garage that I could actually house a lift in, what have you guys done and used to thoroughly and safely clean the belly?
07-04-2013, 12:52 PM
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Race Director
Just use a wash mit in wheel wells. You can reach most of the floor pan from the side, wash MIT there as well. Lower engine/transmission local car wash soap and pressure wash. Have fun.
07-04-2013, 02:02 PM
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I haven't thought about doing this in a longtime. I think if I were going to do it now I would go to do it yourself car wash and reach under with that foaming brush thing they have.
07-04-2013, 02:31 PM
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Safety Car
This is one way to do it. Of course you need the proper tools for the Rotisserie wash. This one seems to have fallen off the Rotisserie.
Here's an interesting way. No tools needed to flip it back over.
Here's an interesting way. No tools needed to flip it back over.
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07-04-2013, 02:47 PM
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Team Owner
Nothing.
07-04-2013, 02:54 PM
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07-04-2013, 02:58 PM
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I do the underside once a year as part of the winter clean-up. I raise the car up on jack stands at the hockey puck locations and take the wheels off. The wheel wells get scrubbed with a brush and I go over the aluminum suspension parts with scotch bright and soap. The trans/diff etc. get sprayed with a strong soap soultion and the rest of the bottom gets a going over with a soft brush and soapy water. The soap is just Dawn dish washing soap. Simple Green is too harsh on the aluminum parts. My sprayer is ancient but you can probably still find something similar at Harbor Freight. It connects to the air compressor and has a siphon tube that you put into a container with whatever liquid you want to us as a cleaner.
The whole under side gets a good rinse afterwards and I scrub the insides of the wheel barrels before the wheels go back on the car. It's a messy job and my wife thinks I'm nutz... she's right but it has nothing to do with detailing the underside of the car.
The whole under side gets a good rinse afterwards and I scrub the insides of the wheel barrels before the wheels go back on the car. It's a messy job and my wife thinks I'm nutz... she's right but it has nothing to do with detailing the underside of the car.
07-04-2013, 03:12 PM
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If it's not too dirty I would guess placing an oscillating lawn sprinkler beneath the car could help.
07-04-2013, 03:33 PM
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I do the underside once a year as part of the winter clean-up. I raise the car up on jack stands at the hockey puck locations and take the wheels off. The wheel wells get scrubbed with a brush and I go over the aluminum suspension parts with scotch bright and soap. The trans/diff etc. get sprayed with a strong soap soultion and the rest of the bottom gets a going over with a soft brush and soapy water. The soap is just Dawn dish washing soap. Simple Green is too harsh on the aluminum parts. My sprayer is ancient but you can probably still find something similar at Harbor Freight. It connects to the air compressor and has a siphon tube that you put into a container with whatever liquid you want to us as a cleaner.
The whole under side gets a good rinse afterwards and I scrub the insides of the wheel barrels before the wheels go back on the car. It's a messy job and my wife thinks I'm nutz... she's right but it has nothing to do with detailing the underside of the car.
The whole under side gets a good rinse afterwards and I scrub the insides of the wheel barrels before the wheels go back on the car. It's a messy job and my wife thinks I'm nutz... she's right but it has nothing to do with detailing the underside of the car.
