I Need Help Determining What This Tire Dressing Is!

I'm going to guess its a silicone base tire dressing. Try LA's Totally Awesome cleaner. I get it at Dollar General and its very cheap. Works great on tires.
 
Megs endurance does mine like that but I like it because rain dulls it some but still looks black.
 
Water based dressings don't contain silicone oils, waxes, or solvents that can harm rubber.

Its the solvent based ones which are dirt cheap, contain silicone and a pain in the ass to remove.

Go to your nearest auto parts store and get a bottle or aerosol of pre-buff cleanser (used in tire repair to prep the inner surface of the tire prior to the repair). Will strip the tire down to the rubber.
 
StockPolo6R said:
Water based dressings don't contain silicone oils, waxes, or solvents that can harm rubber.
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There are plenty of water based dressings that contain silicone. In general the non-greasy ones are the water based, and the greasy ones are the solvent based. There are of course silicone free products as well...
 
Legumes said:
There are plenty of water based dressings that contain silicone. In general the non-greasy ones are the water based, and the greasy ones are the solvent based. There are of course silicone free products as well...
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+1, you have to watch the ingredients. Did some research on this recently. I thought all water based were non-silicone, but that's not the case.
 
But there is a difference in silicones:

PDS- Polydimethylsiloxane
DMS- Dimethalsiloxane

StockPolo6R is correct...DMS is used in solvent based dressings; this is the culprit.

Not all silicones are bad.
 
Bkazzle said:
But there is a difference in silicones:

PDS- Polydimethylsiloxane
DMS- Dimethalsiloxane

StockPolo6R is correct...DMS is used in solvent based dressings; this is the culprit.

Not all silicones are bad.
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Thanks for the clarification. I knew there was some real chemistry behind it!
 
StockPolo6R said:
Water based dressings don't contain silicone oils, waxes, or solvents that can harm rubber.

Its the solvent based ones which are dirt cheap, contain silicone and a pain in the ass to remove.

Go to your nearest auto parts store and get a bottle or aerosol of pre-buff cleanser (used in tire repair to prep the inner surface of the tire prior to the repair). Will strip the tire down to the rubber.
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I don't know how Turtle Wax Black Coat works, but I guess it's similar to TufShine clear coat because people are using the Turtle Wax on plasti-dip as a glossifier without damaging it, so it's not solvent based.
 
My buddy had his tires changed and had something like this stuff on the tires. Nothing was working so I had to TRY to make it look good. Messed up MF's and brushed. It's like an oil spill on the tires! My cousing then changed the tires on her car a week later and mentioned she hated the stuff they put on the tires and I immediately knew it had to be the same stuff.....and it was. This time I tried something different to experiment since it was my cousins car. Goo Gone Gel Spray. Worked wonders!! I even sprayed the brushes that had been ruined by this stuff and now they are all back to normal. Lets just say I have a few bottles of Goo Gone Spray Gel in my arsenal now just in case!
 
I think its safe to say this is not a water based dressing. Water based dressing should come off with water or light APC's. solvent based dressings are much harder to remove as they use solvents to keep them usable until they evaporate.

Silicones are found in both water and solvent based dressings. PERL uses silicone-oxide IIRC.

My guess its some cheap solvent based silicone dressing.
 
I use the quickie yellow bristle black handle brush on tires, works well and bristles are stiff
 
Dealership. Well let me tell you, this might sound crazy but by the pictures you provided it to us, that looks like it to be, Old OIL. Now before people start going crazy. I had the same issue with my own personal car, where they used old oil, the reason why I know is because, once they washed my car, which I was really mad back then, I smelled the tire, and smelled like old oil was used. The following day when I washed and I was in for a surprise. All the lower panels had a yellow stain, nothing I used couldn't take it off but I knew only one thing would work, wet sanding. I was pissed, didn't feel like doing that at all so they gave me another car. That to me, looks like another case of old oil, which trust me, a lot of the dealerships will use because it gives that nice wet look and for some reason, it will last long. I could be wrong but that's what it looks like.
 
My Moms new car car with that same dressing. Took me a couple hours to get that crap off.. ARO worked best
 
Francisco said:
Dealership. Well let me tell you, this might sound crazy but by the pictures you provided it to us, that looks like it to be, Old OIL. Now before people start going crazy. I had the same issue with my own personal car, where they used old oil, the reason why I know is because, once they washed my car, which I was really mad back then, I smelled the tire, and smelled like old oil was used. The following day when I washed and I was in for a surprise. All the lower panels had a yellow stain, nothing I used couldn't take it off but I knew only one thing would work, wet sanding. I was pissed, didn't feel like doing that at all so they gave me another car. That to me, looks like another case of old oil, which trust me, a lot of the dealerships will use because it gives that nice wet look and for some reason, it will last long. I could be wrong but that's what it looks like.
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If what you're taking about are yellow stains from sling then that's cause by solvent based tire dressings that contain Dimethylsiloxane (aka DMS).

The combination of DMS and the blooming process creates a compound that slings onto your paint. It's mostly permanent unless repainted because it seeps into the pores and can't be polished or wet sanded. I've heard that UV rays may fade the staining over time, but not entirely sure.

Some car manufacturers warn their dealers not to use a solvent based tire dressing and I think Nissan started that. (I know Chrysler has issued this warning)----Tire manufactures have issued warnings as well.

*Maybe oil can do this as well, but I've never heard of a dealer using oil. Of course it wouldn't shock me if one did.

**Solvent based tire dressing usually smells like oil...(once the solvent evaporates the silicone oil remains)

***DMS also causes damage to rubber.
 
If a dealer were to use oil, I would personally give the company customer service a call and explain how oil destroys rubber and then get to the point that your service members are using it on rubber. In this case I dont think it was happening, however, Im sure that others have tried it
 
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