Clean the Tires with Car soap?

[derass]

I use D143 to clean the tires once the dressing starts to wear down and needs reapplication. When the dressing is still good, I just use regular shampoo with my wheel mitt to clean away any light dirt.

 

[Nickfire20]

I always clean tires, wheels, and wells, seperate and before i do the paint. They also get a seperate bucket. I have a wheel brush, wheel woolie, tire brush and well brush. The wheel and tires take me just as long to clean as the paint does in whole but, they are very important! I use griots or adams wheel cleaners and tire cleaners. It really helps the dressing to stick and stay.

 

[Rsurfer]

I always clean tires, wheels, and wells, seperate and before i do the paint. They also get a seperate bucket. I have a wheel brush, wheel woolie, tire brush and well brush. The wheel and tires take me just as long to clean as the paint does in whole but, they are very important! I use griots or adams wheel cleaners and tire cleaners. It really helps the dressing to stick and stay.

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[UncleDavy]

The tires and wheels are always the last step in my process and I do use the car soap if there is not a lot of heavy grime. I try to clean the tires and rims a couple of times a week so there is not a heavy brake dust build up. However, after 4 straight days of rain, 1000 miles and visits to fish processing plants, wastewater plants and recycling plants, my tires were a horrible brown and car soap would not be good enough. I started with Mother's Wheel and Tire cleaner, then full strength Simple Green and a brush and then finished off with Barrett Jackson Tire Shine.

 

[jdgamble]

So I inspected my tires. They do look kinda streaky. Thanks for giving me another part of my car to tweak out on. My wife will be thrilled when I explain it's gonna take a little longer cuz I have to make sure my tires are clean.


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[Rsurfer]

So I inspected my tires. They do look kinda streaky. Thanks for giving me another part of my car to tweak out on. My wife will be thrilled when I explain it's gonna take a little longer cuz I have to make sure my tires are clean.


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[Calendyr]

Car soap is not enough to clean tires. You need something that can cut grease, and car soap can't.

Simple solution, use dish soap. Better solution, use an APC or degreaser. Best solution, use a cleaner designed for tires.

As a pro detailer, I simply use a degreaser.

 

[mwoywod]

Car soap is not enough to clean tires. You need something that can cut grease, and car soap can't.

Simple solution, use dish soap. Better solution, use an APC or degreaser. Best solution, use a cleaner designed for tires.

As a pro detailer, I simply use a degreaser.

I agree with everything you said. If I got my tires perfectly clean and decided I wanted to maintain them by scrubbing them 1-2 times per week with the tuff shine tire brush and either my rinseless wash (n-914) or my traditional soap (optimum car wash) would it be possible to effectively keep a tire clean?

Also, which is more capable of actually cleaning a tire? A car soap like optimum car wash or a rinseless wash like D114 or N-914?

 

[Calendyr]

I agree with everything you said. If I got my tires perfectly clean and decided I wanted to maintain them by scrubbing them 1-2 times per week with the tuff shine tire brush and either my rinseless wash (n-914) or my traditional soap (optimum car wash) would it be possible to effectively keep a tire clean?

Also, which is more capable of actually cleaning a tire? A car soap like optimum car wash or a rinseless wash like D114 or N-914?

Neither products are good for cleaning tires. When you apply a tire dressing, you are adding a protective product on the rubber. Both of these cleaning products are Ph neutral and are designed not to remove protective products such as wax or dressing. In order to clean the tire you need a degreasing product, so as I said, dish soap, apc, degreaser or tire specific cleaner are the only real solutions you have.

With that said, if you clean you tire twice a week, there is no need to scrub them everytime. Once you have a protective product on them, simply wash them with your normal car soap until you seen the need to do a deep cleaning and re-apply the protective product. So when they start turning brown, or you see dirt you cannot remove with the car soap, that is when you want to scrub them with a brush and degreaser.

 

[mwoywod]

Neither products are good for cleaning tires. When you apply a tire dressing, you are adding a protective product on the rubber. Both of these cleaning products are Ph neutral and are designed not to remove protective products such as wax or dressing. In order to clean the tire you need a degreasing product, so as I said, dish soap, apc, degreaser or tire specific cleaner are the only real solutions you have.

With that said, if you clean you tire twice a week, there is no need to scrub them everytime. Once you have a protective product on them, simply wash them with your normal car soap until you seen the need to do a deep cleaning and re-apply the protective product. So when they start turning brown, or you see dirt you cannot remove with the car soap, that is when you want to scrub them with a brush and degreaser.

Thanks for the response! I should have been a bit more clear with what I was asking. I'm asking if there is a soap or rinseless wash that is capable of maintaining a "Clean" tire once the tires has been completely degreased and are as clean as possible. I am not talking about a "dressed" or "protected" tire.

Believe it or not, About half of my customers specifically ask me not to use ANY dressing on their tires. Granted, most of the cars I work on are classic cars and alot of the guys that hire me are purists who like a "clean" undressed tire on their unrestored cars

 

[LEDetailing]

I use D143 to clean the tires once the dressing starts to wear down and needs reapplication. When the dressing is still good, I just use regular shampoo with my wheel mitt to clean away any light dirt.

Same process, except I substitute the wheel mitt for a tire brush. I also can get away without using D143 on my wheels if I having used the brakes too much. Then I use the wheel wash mitt and Hyper wash or Optimum car wash as my wheel cleaner.

 

[LEDetailing]

Believe it or not, About half of my customers specifically ask me not to use ANY dressing on their tires. Granted, most of the cars I work on are classic cars and alot of the guys that hire me are purists who like a "clean" undressed tire on their unrestored cars

I think I know the look your customers are after. Have you ever tried Poorboys Bold and Bright Gel? This product reproduces that new "undressed" tire look better than any product I have used. PB BnB gel, looks even more like a new tire after it is washed with a car soap and wipe clean/dry. It technically is a tire cleaner too, so you can tell your customers that you are using a specially formulated tire "cleaner".

Here is my Uncle's Bugeye I worked on last month. Tires were cleaned with Meguiar's D114 (RIP) at 128:1 prior to one application of Poorboy's BnB gel. There would be no appreciable shine if not for the PB BnB gel getting caught in the tiny vertical detailing of the sidewall. A quick spray with a Meguiar's D114 waterless/rinseless wash and a MF towel would probably have eliminated the shine in those vertical details.

 

[PA DETAILER]

Wanted to add, 3D YELLOW DEGREASER is one of the best general tire cleaners I have used. At 1:4 it blew away all the other degreasers I have used for tires. A really great product!

http://www.autogeek.net/3d-yellow-128oz.html

I also mix up a separate small bucket of soap and water along with all my wheel/tire brushes and do the wheels/tires first.

 

[richy]

That's like taking a shower and washing your body with soap and a wash cloth, but not your feet because the run off soap will clean them..it's called toe jams.

Now, THAT is funny! Spoke jam