Wheel well color

isomswim · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:43 am

I finally got around to washing the Jeep after awhile of neglect. There was one area in particular that stuck out in the wheel wells. It looks like my tires rubbed on them and left red tread marks. Completely lost here. Maybe surface rust but its plastic and the underside looks pretty clean for living so close to the ocean and I dont even have 10k miles on it. Its not really a problem so much as an annoyance. Pic below and all 4 wheel wells look like this.

tommudd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:46 am

Hard to tell from the photo, but could you of ran through some paint and it threw it up on there ??

isomswim · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:51 am

Well both my cars went through Sandy and survived. Both get parked outside on the street but its the same amount of color under every wheel well. Just weird. Other car has nothing.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:58 pm

Thats interesting :shock:

isomswim · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:17 pm

Yea its actually making me want to go rip all the plastic out LOL. Ill take some better pics later.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:45 pm

I'm thinking paint, or some sort of mud. Whenever I wash the wheel wells they are always grimey. Could be anything, since you haven't washed her in a while, and not likely rubbing all of your tires.

isomswim · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:33 pm

Gageraid wrote:

I'm thinking paint, or some sort of mud. Whenever I wash the wheel wells they are always grimey. Could be anything, since you haven't washed her in a while, and not likely rubbing all of your tires.

Yeah its just weird that it looks just like tire marks. I figure it has to be mud from somewhere but whatever.

At The Helm · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:47 pm

I'd think paint too. There's some yellow on mine.
Try gum off, that might remove it.

Gageraid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:09 pm

isomswim wrote:

Gageraid wrote:

I'm thinking paint, or some sort of mud. Whenever I wash the wheel wells they are always grimey. Could be anything, since you haven't washed her in a while, and not likely rubbing all of your tires.

Yeah its just weird that it looks just like tire marks. I figure it has to be mud from somewhere but whatever.

It's going to look like tire marks if you flung off paint or mud from your tires. Think about it.

DREDnot · **Posted:** Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:14 am

See if acetone or paint thinner have any effect on it.

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