Cleaning White Walls

01aford

01aford

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My new Cooker white walls have some grease fingerprint stains. I don't want to use an SOS pad. What do you use one your white walls to clean them up?
 
I agree with Henry. Wesley's does a terrific job on whitewalls. By the way, I also use Wesley's white wall cleaner on to remove mildew and bug stains from vinyl siding on the house...works great ! Pat
 
Just use a little dish soap and warm water. For the harder stuff like greasy fingerprints, I use a little Arm and Hammer baking soda. Just put a little on a sponge and rub it...slim
 
Coker makes a great whitewall cleaner with no bleach.Remember westleys has bleach and its the bleach that dries out the rubber and causes cracks.Bleach is not good for tires.The coker product works better than the westlys and it saves your tires.
 
Westleys does not contain bleach. It's main cleaning ingredient is Sodium Metasilicate, the same as Castrol Super Clean. I used Westleys until I compared labels with Super Clean...Super Clean being cheaper than Westleys, that's what I use now...
 
I use to use Westleys until the guys at the EF V8 Nationals convinced me to use about anything but Westleys. It is full of bleach and a good tire company will attest to this. Do not use bleach as it will take the dirt off and some of the rubber little by little too. Not so quick to condemn SOS pads. Thats what I used as a kid and now went back to it for the perfect job. For quick clean ups, Simple Green or other less harsh cleaners will do the job.
 
I will look at the Westleys I have in the shop. I may be wrong about it having bleach. If you doubt it has something VERY harsh in it, take a dark rag and use some Westleys. When I saw all the white on the black wash cloth I knew I was doing harm. You can feel the rubber gummy where you use it. Like all topics on here, everyone has opinions. Too many serious car guys have warned me about Westleys so I stopped using it.
 
i HAVE NEVER USED WESTLEAS i HAVE USED SOS PADS FOR 50 YEARS AND SOME TIMES SIMPLE GREEN ON SPOTS i WOULD NOT USE ANY HARSH CLEANERS WITCH WOULD HARM YOUR WHITE WALLS .HAROLD, CENTRAL COAST CA.
 
Try the mild cleaners first. Just prior to taking my Model T to a show, I bought some tire cleaner at the parts store that ended up doing a number on the painted parts of the first wheel I tried it on. The instructions should have said to remove the tire from the rim before application, rather than just saying to be careful about getting it on any painted parts.
 
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