Thanks everyone.
I only used the Westley's Bleeche-White tire cleaner for the initial cleanings as it has always cut through the cruddy cheap tire dressings most people have caked on their tires. I don't know the history of the tires for their first year/8000 miles so I thought something strong at first was a good idea. I almost used the Zep Purple Industrial cleaner first as that was one the best tire cleaners I ever tried. I used it for several months on numerous cars until someone clued me in on the MSDS for that product and on how truly 'industrial' it is. The following cleanings were with the DP Tire cleaner and they did not bring up any dirt except for a little bit around the outer corner edge the first time. I was getting white foam.
If it's because the tire compound of these tires is not a good match then I'm fine with that and maybe us, as members, should keep a running log of tires that did not work well with the DP Tire coating as a reference for everyone. It totally makes sense to me that there would be some tire compounds that would not absorb and bond to the coatings. I'm quite familiar with how different tires will look totally different using the same dressing.
So I've decided to wait until next weekend to give the OC on the wheels a bit more time to fully harden. What would be the best way to remove the existing failed coating? Is the DP cleaner designed to easily remove the coating the same way that the TW cleaner removes their coating?
I am hoping that it is a temperature thing. The first 2 tires I did the temp was not bad at around 55 degrees. The next weekend when I did the next 2 tires it was colder probably in the 40's. I was using an infrared heater to warm the wheels prior to applying the Opti-Coat and for about 1 hour afterwards for each of the 3 layers I did. I thought about warming up the tire rubber first too. But the first tire looked like it worked fine and dried in that 10-15 minute window that the product description advises so I continued.
I am fan of DP products. I have at least dozen of them in my cabinet and they are all good products. However, as we all know every company is capable for producing a dud or over promising. I have about $3000 worth of products sitting in my cabinets to attest to that. I kept putting off trying the Tuffshine products because there were numerous stories about in being a PITA and finicky to use. I've been watching the threads about the TW tire coating and it still sounded like the development of these tire coating products were still a work in progress. The DP Tire coating sounded like they may have figured it out and made it easy to use so I gave it a shot reassured due to the DP reputation.
I only used the Westley's Bleeche-White tire cleaner for the initial cleanings as it has always cut through the cruddy cheap tire dressings most people have caked on their tires. I don't know the history of the tires for their first year/8000 miles so I thought something strong at first was a good idea. I almost used the Zep Purple Industrial cleaner first as that was one the best tire cleaners I ever tried. I used it for several months on numerous cars until someone clued me in on the MSDS for that product and on how truly 'industrial' it is. The following cleanings were with the DP Tire cleaner and they did not bring up any dirt except for a little bit around the outer corner edge the first time. I was getting white foam.
If it's because the tire compound of these tires is not a good match then I'm fine with that and maybe us, as members, should keep a running log of tires that did not work well with the DP Tire coating as a reference for everyone. It totally makes sense to me that there would be some tire compounds that would not absorb and bond to the coatings. I'm quite familiar with how different tires will look totally different using the same dressing.
So I've decided to wait until next weekend to give the OC on the wheels a bit more time to fully harden. What would be the best way to remove the existing failed coating? Is the DP cleaner designed to easily remove the coating the same way that the TW cleaner removes their coating?
I am hoping that it is a temperature thing. The first 2 tires I did the temp was not bad at around 55 degrees. The next weekend when I did the next 2 tires it was colder probably in the 40's. I was using an infrared heater to warm the wheels prior to applying the Opti-Coat and for about 1 hour afterwards for each of the 3 layers I did. I thought about warming up the tire rubber first too. But the first tire looked like it worked fine and dried in that 10-15 minute window that the product description advises so I continued.
I am fan of DP products. I have at least dozen of them in my cabinet and they are all good products. However, as we all know every company is capable for producing a dud or over promising. I have about $3000 worth of products sitting in my cabinets to attest to that. I kept putting off trying the Tuffshine products because there were numerous stories about in being a PITA and finicky to use. I've been watching the threads about the TW tire coating and it still sounded like the development of these tire coating products were still a work in progress. The DP Tire coating sounded like they may have figured it out and made it easy to use so I gave it a shot reassured due to the DP reputation.
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