Meguiar's Hot Shine Tire Spray Not Working As Well As It Used To?

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Back in 2013 when I got the new Honda Accord, Meguiar's Hot Shine Tire Spray worked great on the tires. It left a nice shiny slightly wet-looking appearance. After a while though, evertyime I'd do a fresh application, it wouldn't look as shiny. It would make the tires nice and black, but not shiny like when I first got the car. Now I'm at the point where it makes the tires nice and dark and black but it basically leaves almost no shine.

I've cleaned the tire sidewalls before, so what am I doing wrong?
 
I should also mention, about a year ago, I tried Black Magic Tire Gel which comes with a hard sponge. It was amazing at first. The tires were as shiny and as wet-looking like nothing I'd ever seen. BUT, that gel is a filthy nightmare to work with. It's very hard to wash off your hands. I ended up using latex gloves in future applications because of awful the gel was. It also gets real dirty on the tires and needs cleaning which isn't easy, let me tell. Cleaning the tires before an application would consume one whole green scruffy thingy.

But I had the same problem back then. Future applications of the Black Magic Tire Gel would look duller and not nearly as shiny as the first application. Since then I've never used gel again and went back to the Meguiar's Hot Shine Tire Spray. And it's also still duller than it was when I first got the car.
 
Both Black Magic, and or Meguiars tire dressings are solvent based, which as you know is resistant to most chemicals/water and as time goes by dirt will accumulate/embed itself into the dressing in a sense as a result it slowly mutes the look of future tire shine applications, what I am saying is solvent dressing won't 100 percent clean off the tire, therefore you can try IPA wipe of the tire or something like Carpro Eraser to try and give yourself a 100 percent fresh base, lastly consider a water based dressing one good choice would be Carpro Pearl
 
Well, thanks for the explanation. I wish I would have educated myself a little better back then. Never heard of "IPA wipe" before, but I guess I basically need to get some alcohol and just clean it.
 
You are welcome, though that's why we are all here to learn/share knowledge, however IPA is basically a rubbing alcohol wipe down, and if you want to try it I suggest you clean the tire like normal to remove the bulk of the contamination, then with a general purposed microfiber(that you don't want/love) wipe the tire down a few times....happy detailing


P.S check this out http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...ow-mix-ipa-inspecting-correction-results.html
 
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