Tire Shine Selection

[Eldorado2k]

Re: Tire Shine Selection

You really oughta use D108 @4:1 to see it's true potential.
If mixing it at 10:1 it would most likely be outperformed by D101 @ 4:1.

After I dried both tires I took a paper towel and wiped the sidewalls and both tires were clean/no dirt came up on the towel. I was actually kinda surprised at how D143 seemed to equal D108 on that test.

...I can't imagine going a month without putting something on my tires. OCD is too strong to attempt something like that. Lol.

I would've thought that brush attachment would be able to get them "surgically clean" in a couple passes like Mike Phillips said?:p

[The Guz]

Re: Tire Shine Selection

You really oughta use D108 @4:1 to see it's true potential.
If mixing it at 10:1 it would most likely be outperformed by D101 @ 4:1.

After I dried both tires I took a paper towel and wiped the sidewalls and both tires were clean/no dirt came up on the towel. I was actually kinda surprised at how D143 seemed to equal D108 on that test.

...I can't imagine going a month without putting something on my tires. OCD is too strong to attempt something like that. Lol.

I would've thought that brush attachment would be able to get them "surgically clean" in a couple passes like Mike Phillips said?:p

The brush attachment is to make life easier on the person. The machine is doing the work instead of the person scrubbing away. Some tire dressings have conditioners in it. Those tire conditioners permeate through the sidewall to some extent. One pass or two passes with a brush (machine or by hand) is not going to remove those embedded conditioners over one wash. They will need to be pushed out by the anitozonants within the tire as this is what the tires is designed to do. This would apply to some tire coatings. Some tire coatings are more finicky than others. The one I'm about to test is a bit more finicky and requires a little more cleaning than say the TW one. If I was doing another persons car or detailing for dollars then a quick scrub (regardless if it is by hand or machine) followed by a water based tire dressing would be my go to.

Not all tires are created equally. Some tires produce more blooming than others. For example, Michellin tires. They develop a lot. Thus they require a bit more work.

It all comes down to what each user decides is "best" for them.

[Eldorado2k]

Re: Tire Shine Selection

I agree with what you say^
I was more or less referring to Mike Phillips' statements in that article because he mentioned how that cars tires appeared to have been loaded with dressing and hadn't been thoroughly cleaned in a long time. And he also said he got them "surgically clean". [which I doubt]

IMO a surgically clean tire is not black, it's brown. Free of any dressings and dry to the touch. Bone dry, virgin tire. Then and only then is it truly ready for it's desired coating.

It may not look it, but This is my opinion of surgically clean tire.



It goes from that, to this.



And finishes up looking like this.



..That's why when I saw that photo of that "perfectly clean" tire in that article, I said to myself "if that tire was really perfectly clean, it'd be more brown than black"

That "perfectly clean" tire on that Monte Carlo looks just like my tire after spraying it down with D108 & D143. Yea it's "clean" but it's not what you and I, or anyone else would call "perfectly clean"

It just bugs me when I read about people wondering why they can't seem to scrub their tires fully clean prior to applying their choice of tire dressing or coating.. And that sort of misinformation in that article sure doesn't help the cause... Perfectly clean yet still soaked full of dressing... *rolls eyes* lol.

Ok, I'm done with my rant.