Wheel Well Liners Promotes Rust??

[Pearl2017]

its simple, modern paint electrically deposited protects the metal very well, the liner protects the paint from rock chips that will let the salt get behind the paint. You're better off with the liners in even if they are covered in salt

Edited September 21, 2019 by Pearl2017

[jocart58]

Thanks much for the forum and this topic. I just bought an '18 Z71 Double Cab and I noticed the carpet like inner fenders right away. Here in Iowa we get the Brine Bath  from November to March as well. I have to believe that these fabric liners are just going to be sopping wet all winter. Has anyone removed them and just applied POR-15 or something similar to the inner panels? Around here any 6+ year old Chevy/GMC has cancer in the fenderwells. I'd really like to avoid that too!

thank you, thank you very much

[diyer2]

You might think I'm crazy but............

I have done this for a while. You spend hours detailing your pavement queen but the wheel wells always looked bad IMO. So I started doing this to my wheel wells as part of my detailing . It makes the wheel wells look nice and black for a while. After moving to the mountains and dealing with dirt roads and mud I continued to do this but added treatment to the undercarriage. 

 

I take 30 weight oil, any oil will do I guess, I just wanted heavier oil being I'm diluting it with paint thinner. Mix the oil with paint thinner, the real stuff not the white odorless thinner. My preference. 

Put in a 1 gallon garden sprayer. 

Spray it on the undercarriage. Yes you have to reapply it. But it's easy and cheap IMO. My trucks undercarriage looks good IMO considering the mud it sees. 

 

Yes, it can attract dust etc. Clean it off at the car wash and reapply. 

 

Don't do it in your driveway!! I park my truck in the street. 

 

You be the judge if this might work for you. 

 

 

[Praedator]

Depends on where you live, climate, road needs salt etc....

Here in the south, I live near saltwater and I do a thorough cleaning behind my wheel well covers.  My front are factory and my back are rough country plastic that I added to not have black fronts and white back wheel wells.  Really protects the rock chips and other things I think would cause rust much sooner.  Doesn't take much to spray behind the plastic ones in the back.  The front factory ones are a little more difficult to rinse out behind them.

[Eddie 70]

Years ago I had an S10, I would remove the brakes lights and reach up inside the fender wells a far as I could and wipe it down. Give it a really good rinse to get rid of what grime I could. That truck had no rust in the fenders.

 

I want to do the same to my truck, I just have not done it yet.

Edited August 11, 2020 by Eddie 70

[WilliamBos]

On 9/20/2019 at 10:21 AM, Grumpy Bear said:

Line-X Premium that covers the body to wheel well seam and plastic attachments. What dirt you see hoses out and looks like new. Very easy to maintain.  There are a couple of plugs in the bed above the wheel wells that allow hosing with a wand with out removing the tail lamps. Good place to add oil to the seem for those so inclined. 

 

Great idea!  I am pulling mine out, they will stay out.

 

 

Are  there any tips to removal?  Bolts or body clips?

 

 

thanks.

[Grumpy Bear]

7 hours ago, WilliamBos said:

Great idea!  I am pulling mine out, they will stay out.

 

 

Are  there any tips to removal?  Bolts or body clips?

 

 

thanks.

Well sir the beauty of a WT1 is that it doesn't come with much. Liners is one of the things it didn't come with. So......can't say. 

[djw88]

if i had to choose between a liner or undercoat i would choose the liner every time.

its far better than under coat. issue is that no matter what coating you use it will eventually get a chip and salt will find its way in. then it makes a happy home behind the coating and rusts all the things.