swisstony

Our Cayenne S looked fairly clean from a distance but its only when you start removing stuff you find out this girl has had a pretty tough life so far. We are not sure where she has been driven though a desert, some serious off roading or in some quarry but either way there is so much muck, crime, sand, soil everywhere that it offends my wife's OCD so muggins here is tasked with the cleaning.

Now I know some of you will question our sanity on removing and then cleaning stuff that frankly you cant see, well I think I gave the reason earlier, the OCD that my wife has So dont judge us too harshly.

One arch before



and after



Another one before





and after





Now wheels. Ok they are not some fancy new 20" rims, but they will do for now. One of our biggest bugbears is tyre shops. When you get new tyres they just remove the old balancing weights and leave horrible glue and weight residue. After a while this is all over the wheels and just looks ..well crap. So you need to find a way to remove it all without damaging the paint.
You start with this mess




With some special compounds, tar remover, degreaser, wheel cleaner and a liberal use of elbow grease you get this. Its not perfect but its better




later on in the year might find some old wheels and paint them ourselves.

SheriffShaner111

swisstony

cheers for that. took advantage of the UK actually being sunny so why the hell not.

oldskewel

Looks to be way more effective than my technique, which is to drive through puddles before it stops raining.

Stringbag

Petza914

+1

Here's what came out of mine when I cleaned them out during the widebody conversion. I also left the rubber drain grommets with the flaps off the car to prevent this level of the clogging in the future.

swisstony

sorry I didn't reply sooner, been on holiday and sunning ourselves in Turkey

Thanks for the tip about the drain plugs. It just so happens we also have a VW Touareg so as they are near clones of the Cayenne , we are quite well aware of these little buggers. It seems on the Porsche they are just as prone to get blocked up and so when we removed the arch liner, they were removed and cleaned and the stuff that came out was quite incredible. God knows how they were meant to function being that blocked so a pretty poor design. Anyway all good for the next bout of bad weather which in the UK is usually just around the corner !