Can't get rid of Tire Browning

[JCDetails]

Good to know.

https://www.autogeek.net/kwazar-pro-super-foamer.html

I was considering getting one of these during the next free shipping sale to play with D143 in, curious how well the foam will cling as opposed to just using their regular sprayer. Also save my poor finger from using the trigger so much, I think my right index finger has abs by now.

D143 tends to foam up for me when sprayed at high velocity relatively close to the tire anyway, so I imagine it'll work. I see a lot of guys over in the UK using those kwazar foamers. They seem pretty legit.

 

[evo77]

I don't believe in the process of just "scrubbing once and dress it". If you don't remove the browning, it WILL show through a dressing.

I had this problem with the original Yoko tires on our Grand Caravan. Multiple and multiple scrubbings with a tire cleaner could not get rid of the brown.

This is what it looked like AFTER with WATER. (NOTE: This is not tire dressing!)

 

[Eldorado2k]

I don't believe in the process of just "scrubbing once and dress it". If you don't remove the browning, it WILL show through a dressing.

I had this problem with the original Yoko tires on our Grand Caravan. Multiple and multiple scrubbings with a tire cleaner could not get rid of the brown.

This is what it looked like AFTER with WATER. (NOTE: This is not tire dressing!)

Those tires might be the exception, because I've never not once found that to be the case.

But I have had many tires that have never ending blooming after being cleaned with Megs D143, such as these which had been scrubbed 3x and once dried looked like this.

Here's 1 of those same tires after being cleaned and dried. Notice how most of it bloomed and only the outer part stayed black for whatever reason.

But that doesn't prevent it from taking a dressing or even a coating perfectly fine. A dry bare tire is all that's needed, blooming is irrelevant as long as it's been scrubbed clean of dirt and grime.

Same blooming tire dressed without a problem.

 

[Bobby B.]

Tuf Shine Tire Cleaner works great for removing browning from tires.

https://www.autogeek.net/tuf-shine-tire-cleaner.html

 

[TTQ B4U]

Bleach White. Simple and cost effective at about $10 per gallon. Removes the brown blooming with ease.

 

[willowcat11]

Those tires might be the exception, because I've never not once found that to be the case.

But I have had many tires that have never ending blooming after being cleaned with Megs D143, such as these which had been scrubbed 3x and once dried looked like this.

Here's 1 of those same tires after being cleaned and dried. Notice how most of it bloomed and only the outer part stayed black for whatever reason.

But that doesn't prevent it from taking a dressing or even a coating perfectly fine. A dry bare tire is all that's needed, blooming is irrelevant as long as it's been scrubbed clean of dirt and grime.

Same blooming tire dressed without a problem.

Very Nice!

 

[Finick]

Bleach White. Simple and cost effective at about $10 per gallon. Removes the brown blooming with ease.

I used to use that prior to black magic changing it up, and it’s never seemed to have the bite it used to since then

 

[RiverCityAutoSpa]

Pick up some purple power or la totally awesome and a tire brush.

 

[Eldorado2k]

Very Nice!

Thanks. And here's what those same never ending blooming tires look like when I actually decided to use a much different, less aggressive yet specific tire cleaner to properly clean them...

They started off looking like this:

After 2 rounds of scrubbing with a combination of the classic Meguiars tire brush and the tuff shine tire brush you can see the layer of blooming literally coming off [it put up a fight]

Finally after 3 rounds we have a complete and perfectly prepped tire, totally free of all browning and it doesn't get any more perfect for a coating than this.

Note: I know that's not exactly the same exact tire.. But it is from the same truck.. Reason that happened is I wasn't expecting such dramatic results and I didn't take a before pic that same day. But every tire on the truck had the same result.

And the tire cleaner that was able to achieve that result? Turtle Wax Endura Tire Cleaner. I was shocked at how good it is. I'm sure Tuff Shine is good, and Mckee's Tire Rejuvenator works after hard work, but that TW Tire Cleaner is shockingly more effective with much less work, they really outdid themselves on that product and no one would've ever guessed. Lol.

Pick up some purple power or la totally awesome and a tire brush.

I have LA's Totally Awesome and I highly highly doubt that sort of aggressive type cleaner can properly clean a tire and actually be gentle enough to Prevent it from blooming afterwards... The key is cleaning while not beating it to death, which is what leads a tire to automatically bloom...

 

[Crispy]

Tuf Shine Tire Cleaner works great for removing browning from tires.

https://www.autogeek.net/tuf-shine-tire-cleaner.html

I had a new set of tires that turned brown like crazy.

Cleaned with OPC straight, dressed with Optimum Tire Coat.

Lasted one week, and turned even more brown.

Broke out Tuff Shine and scrubbed until foam was going white.

Applied Wolfgang Tire Coating.

Lasted a week and turned brown, not as bad though.

Back to Tuff Shine and again until foam was white (it was like chocolate milk when I started).

Dressed with Meg's Tire and Trim Gel, lasted 4 weeks.

Since have only used ONR to keep clean-no browning.

Only thing I can surmize is it depends on the tires more than the difficulty to remove and stop the browning.

I have 6 tire dressings (way more than I need), but only one cleaner-Tuff Shine for the tough stuff.

 

[derass]

I find that D143 works really well as a tire cleaner and at removing the browning. I just did a set of tires not too long ago that have probably never been scrubbed since they were new a few years ago. D143 cleaned them up with a single application. I even tried a second scrubbing, but the foam was white, so there was no point continuing.

But I do agree that it must be used at the dilutions recommend by Meguiar's. I normally use it at 2:1 and it works well. Someone suggested trying it at 3:1, and I figured I'd give that a try to save some product, but it didn't work very, too watery for my foaming sprayer to do anything and let it stick, and not enough cleaning power. So I'm back to 2:1. It's a great value anyways, as the person a few post back already pointed out.