OTC Tire Cleaner

[Scarelane]

I used Wesleys Bleach White for years and it's still widely available. It does a decent job and is reasonably priced...rops:

Mothers also makes some great products and is available at most retail stores....Where automotive supplies are sold...

Have to be very careful with Wesleys Bleach White. I agree that it works really good, but it also etches aluminum wheels. Many of my friends, including myself, have experienced etching on our aluminum wheels, even if they are completely cold.

To be fair, maybe it's not etching, but it does leave marks that will not wipe off. Wheels need to be polished to remove the spots.

 

[PT87]

Ok, wow thanks guys.

I tried Eagle A2Z at a local coin op.

I put one coat on each of the tires, waited the required amount of time, and then sprayed off. Yikes! That made the tires a lot "browner" than before! Second time, I sprayed a tire at a time and used a grout sponge, and that seemed to take most of the brown out. But, now the tires appeared extremely gray. Nothing like the black from factory. By the way, I used nearly a full bottle of this stuff doing the 4 tires twice.

I'm at a loss. Should I give the Mother's a shot or step up to the Bleche-White. Could the Bleche-White be applied with an applicator. I am terribly afraid that it will spot my alloys.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Perhaps the A2Z bottle says you can spray on, hose off...but IMO you need to scrub them with a brush. IMO you used WAYYY too much product. You want to hose down the tire and wheel (mostly to get the wheel wet so if there is any overspray on there it is diluted), then just spray a thin film on the tire, let it dwell for a minute, then scrub with a stiff brush (a tire brush, not a wire brush, although some people use brass brushes), then rinse.

You may need to repeat this a few times, keep scrubbing until the foam isn't brown anymore, but white. The tire may still look gray instead of black at this point, but once you dress it, it will look great.

 

[CrownKote]

:iagree:

or just buy some purple power form walmart and give that a go... this is what I use on almost every customer car I turn out of my doors...

 

[PT87]

Perhaps the A2Z bottle says you can spray on, hose off...but IMO you need to scrub them with a brush. IMO you used WAYYY too much product.

They are low profile tires, too.... :applause: Good job, me.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

They are low profile tires, too.... :applause: Good job, me.

Hey, no harm done, it's cheap, anyway. I just wish you had gotten better results. Do you have a good tire brush? You should be able to get a decent one at Wal-Mart, Pep Boys, etc. I know the multiple applications seems wrong, but it just seems to be the way it is when some tires get brown, that you have to keep scrubbing, rinsing, and reapplying until the brown goes away.

 

[PT87]

I'm going to get some Mother's + a tire brush tonight.

Don't want to start a whole new thread, but how about an OTC tire shine? I trusted Megs with basically anything until I used that Endurance gel.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

I understand the Mother's FX is pretty good.

 

[Hoytman]

Ok, wow thanks guys.

I tried Eagle A2Z at a local coin op.

I put one coat on each of the tires, waited the required amount of time, and then sprayed off. Yikes! That made the tires a lot "browner" than before! Second time, I sprayed a tire at a time and used a grout sponge, and that seemed to take most of the brown out. But, now the tires appeared extremely gray. Nothing like the black from factory. By the way, I used nearly a full bottle of this stuff doing the 4 tires twice.

I'm at a loss. Should I give the Mother's a shot or step up to the Bleche-White. Could the Bleche-White be applied with an applicator. I am terribly afraid that it will spot my alloys.

There's probably nothing wrong with the Eagle product, I've noticed this same thing using the Westley's Bleche-White (how ever they spell it). Once the tires get this brown slime as I like to refer to it, it may take several applications of a product to get it out. It's almost like the brown is coming from within the tire itself...rest assured it isn't.

I want to clarify something I may have missed in an earlier post. You may even have to use the Westley's product a couple of times to completely remove it. It depends how bad the brown stains are. To say a product will work within a certain number of applications wouldn't be realistic. Again, the level of staining can be different from vehicle to vehicle.

All I can tell you is that in my experience it takes far less applications with the Westley's product. It also helps tremendously to let the tires dry between applications.