How often do you clean your tires?

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How often do you guys clean your tires?

I try to do a maintenance wash every week or 2 and I was wondering if it was counter intuitive to always scrub clean my tires with OPC and apply a tire dressing.

Should I reduce it to once a month? Maybe only clean it once the dressing doesn't look nice anymore?
 
After cleaned with opc, I suggest to coat it and save the hassle if you want them to look good always.
 
I clean vehicles' tires whenever I clean the wheels upon which they are mounted. I clean vehicles' wheels whenever I clean the vehicles.


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When you touch them often, it's maintaining. When you touch them infrequently, it's cleaning. If you clean them once a month, you'll still have to go over each tire 3 times to get all the brown out, you'll just do it in one sitting rather than once a week.

If you always want your tires looking as good as the car, clean and dress them every time you clean the car. Even if you coat them with tuf shine or something similar, you still need to clean them often, just don't need as harsh a cleaner.
 
Mask said:
After cleaned with opc, I suggest to coat it and save the hassle if you want them to look good always.
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This is what I do for my vehicle. The TW coating just needs to wiped down.

Otherwise, I only scrub them when I have the time, i.e. doing the 2BM. But for rinseless washes, they just get the same treatment as the paint. I don't drive on any dirt roads and avoid every puddle I can, so they don't get too dirty.

As far as what you should do, that's up to you. If your unhappy with the appearance, I would try just wiping them down and then apply dressing. If reapplying dressing isn't working for you, scrub them down then apply.
 

I scrub / clean tires as needed. Sometimes it is once a week due to weather and road conditions, and sometimes is is once a month. It depends on how they look and what is needed. I prefer to maintain rather that "clean" them.

 
I'm going to take a middle of the road position.

Back in the day, I would scrub my tires with tire cleaner at every wash and reapply dressing (as others have noted).

However, the OP is using OPC as his tire cleaner, and since I switched to OPC for this, I find my tires don't brown really at all between washings. It is therefore possible to do a light cleaning with car wash and a soft brush, and still have a partially-dressed look (presuming the tires have been dressed recently, not like now in the middle of winter).

So you can do a light wash and leave it, or a light wash and top up the dressing. So my answer to the OP's question is yes, you could reduce the OPC scrub to every other wash.

Disclaimer: Of course, if you want to get the best result, as others have said, it's going to come from scrubbing and redressing every wash. But hey, we're all trying to reduce time and effort, right?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Disclaimer: Of course, if you want to get the best result, as others have said, it's going to come from scrubbing and redressing every wash. But hey, we're all trying to reduce time and effort, right?
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...and that's where the OCD kicks in and tells you to scrub it down again and reapply the dressing.
 
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. I just wanted to see how others viewed this car washing step.

I don't have a coating for my tires. I'm using Sonax tire dressing. It works well for me and in the past lasted a good month or so before getting faded.

I was originally using the soft bristled mother's wheel brush to go over the tires but recently bought the Tuf Shine brush to get a little more aggressive with the cleaning. As you can expect, the dressing didn't last as long when I cleaned with the Tuf Shine brush.

As some have mentioned, those OCD tendencies just make you start over thinking.
 
Optimum No Rinse the tires and apply another coat of tire dressing over the original. If you're using a high quality, water based dressing it used be lasting 2-6 weeks depending on milage and conditions. I'll do a full wheel wash every 1-3 months depending.
 
I usually wash my car at least 1x a week. I wash my tires every other wash. So about 2x a month or more if needed.
 
i thoroughly clean/scrub the tires at every wash...
 
Unless they are really dirty or muddy, I will do it every other wash,
 
I use Megs Endurance dressing about every 4-6 weeks... hit the tires with cheap AA foam after weekly wash... keeps them clean and black for the duration... easily.
 
It depends on the car.

Daily driver - I gave up scrubbing tires long ago. It's a PIA that just isn't necessary anymore with tire coatings. Since I'm basically lazy, I don't like to bend down any longer than I have to, especially to scrub a dirty tire - so I just use a tire coating.

On my garage queen, I still use conventional dressings. I always "clean" the tire every wash. This means a once over with whatever wheel cleaner I'm using and the Tuff Shine tire cleaner brush. Every couple of washes I CLEAN them bare with TS Tire Cleaner.
 
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