Tar removal: solvent or clay?

[Kacz]

Do the tires stay green or just temporarily while the spray is on there? I know TarX has a neon dye for the purposes of using it on dark paint, the dye reacts when it is working. Wonder if that is what you are seeing on the tires...unless you are saying it leaves lasting green stain after you have wiped/rinsed it off?

My sister had an issue with tar on her Wrangler, so I brought her my TarX for her and her BF to use on it. I didn't have time to stay, so I told her to read the directions and gave her the link to the product and said good luck to them. (What a terrible brother I am )

Anyways, she then texted me a picture of a spot on the tire being green and haven't been back to take a look at the tire again (this was Friday) or talk to her.

I have a set of tires in my basement and will see if I can make time to do some testing today and see what happens.

 

[PiPUK]

Wonder if this would apply to products such as: P21S Total Auto Wash...(emphasis on: "Total Auto")?

Bob

TAW is well known but I can never find much info on it. There isn't an SDS online and no one I have spoken with has one. I know it is water miscible because it can be diluted if you want. This probably dictates that the product will have a limited limonene content because of the difficulty of emulsifying it into a water miscible formulation. In addition, it can be used neat and there are no real reports of difficulty in rinsing or bad residues so that indicates that the surfactant level cannot be too high either. Of course the SDS should confirm this but, from the characteristics, I would guess you are talking about no more than 5-10% limonene and it could easily be less. Based on that you can accept that it would not be as aggressive on plastics as tar-x which has several 10's of % of this solvent.

The above is my interpretation and I accept it could be incorrect.

 

[FUNX650]

TAW is well known but I can never find much info on it. There isn't an SDS online and no one I have spoken with has one. I know it is water miscible because it can be diluted if you want. This probably dictates that the product will have a limited limonene content because of the difficulty of emulsifying it into a water miscible formulation. In addition, it can be used neat and there are no real reports of difficulty in rinsing or bad residues so that indicates that the surfactant level cannot be too high either. Of course the SDS should confirm this but, from the characteristics, I would guess you are talking about no more than 5-10% limonene and it could easily be less. Based on that you can accept that it would not be as aggressive on plastics as tar-x which has several 10's of % of this solvent.

The above is my interpretation and I accept it could be incorrect.

It seems there are quite a few unresolved issues regarding some of the detailing-products stating to have d-limonene.

Therefore...Thanks for your response.
You always provide answers that move the forbidding-clouds that hide chemical-facts from view.



Bob

 

[Klasse Act]

Have you tried spraying WD40 on it and letting it sit and thenwiping it off?

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