Then I tackled the exterior. Specifically I needed to know the condition of the brakes. She stopped OK. I just needed a warm and fuzzy of her condition. Pulled all 4 wheels and eyeballed rotors and pads. All good! Rears have 5/8” pad life and fronts are at a 1/4”. Since they were all off, I decided to clean all the wheel wells and scrub the backsides of all the rims. Night and day difference Don’tcha’ think? This was more of a cosmetic effort. Light coat if oil on the hubs and mating surface of the wheels.



Before

Before

After

After



I used Simple green, Dawn soap, a scrubbing brush and Brillo pads to clean years of brake dust, grease, tar built up. Found these wheels were manufactured in Poland.