Plastic wheel well trim looks horrible
While washing my 5th wheel I noticed that the plastic trim around the wheel wells still looks dirty although I have tried everything to get them clean. I washed them with different cleaners and even u...
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Jennifer Koper wrote:
While I haven’t tried this on plastic, I had a number of really obstinate brake powder/grime on the wheels of my f150. A rag and some gasoline works fantastic.
Under no circumstances should you ever use Gasoline any other motor fuel or other chemicals on plastics without trying it on something that will not show or not cause collateral damage IF YOUR CHOICE OF CHEMICALS DISSOLVES, MELTS, SOFTENS, DAMAGES the item you are trying to clean/fix.
Wheel skirts are insanely expensive parts to replace not to mention may need to have custom made if damaged depending on the age of the trailer.
Gasoline WILL cause harm to most rubber materials and most likely the plastic used to make the wheel skirt.
The PAINT route with paint RATED for plastic IS THE BEST ROUTE, pretty simple, cheap and effective permanent cure to sun damaged plastic parts.
I painted my door window plastic surrounds which turn an ugly yellow after one or two yrs, they are STILL perfectly white after 11 yrs!
