cleaning tires

[rodney1234]

I have just bought a new truck first new vehicle in years. I wanted to know if you can still clean tires with comet i have factory wheels.

[Murr1525]

I cant say I have ever done that, but Meguiars does make a tire cleaning product now...

NEW NXT Generation Tire Cleaner

[PIMPaLiCiOuS]

Yup. I actually ordered it @ the E-store too because my local Pep Boys didn't have it (one of the few items it didn't have).

I can't wait to use it this weekend!

[farmboy]

I have used NXT tire cleaner. I did have to special order it from Napa, but it works great. It takes off all dressing build up and leaves a nice clean tire.

[magnus]

I bought a couple cans of the Meguiar's Tire Cleaner. I can't say that I'm all too impressed. The product goes on fairly well, but seems to use a lot of product to do all four tires of a car.

I've found better success at using my left over wash water and a tire scrub brush (Meguiar's doesn't sell any more). Then after drying the car, I use #39 Heavy Duty Vinyl and Rubber Cleaner to clean further. I then dress with either Hyper Dressing or #40.

[gb387]

I have used both the NXT Tire Cleaner and a similar process to what magnus posted. Either way the end result is a clean tire. IMO NTX Tire Cleaner works slightly better, it does a great job of prepping the tire for a new coat of dressing! I use NXT Tire Cleaner every few washes to remove the old dressing build up.

[hoghead00]

A thumbs up for NXT Tire Cleaner! I was actually using it last night and you could literally see the crud washing off the tire. With a little scrub from a tire brush, it really makes for a nice clean tire, that's ready for dressing. Good stuff, kind of tough to find though. I think I had to order mine directly from Meguiars.

[Magic]

I like using Safe D-Greaser to clean my tires..

I was first cleaning my tires with the NXT Tire cleaner, but I found that my tires were still dirty. The only reason I found out why is because I have white walls on my old Caddy. When I would go to wipe the tire down after cleaning/scrubbing NXT Tire, I would get black tire smears on my white walls.

I tried using Safe D-Greaser on my tires by accident. I was cleaning my Wheel Wells with Safe D-Greaser. I was moving onto the tires next, when I realized I ran out of NXT tire cleaner. So I went with the Safe D-Greaser instead. I can tell you after using the D-Greaser, and I go to wipe my tire down. I no longer get tire smears on my white walls. I haven't used NXT Tire Cleaner since!

Most won't see this problem since they have all black tires. You would see this problem if your tires have white lettering on them.