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White Foam - the Visual Indicator the Tire is Clean and Time to Move onto the Next Tire
How to Prep Tires for a Tire Coating or Tire Dressing
I'm a big fan of tire coatings as compared to tire dressings - but only for the right tires and the right cars. I'm confident I have more articles and videos on this topic. That said, we're not going to use a tire coating on these tires, but I wanted to share our new foaming tire cleaner and walk through the process and thus explain why you want/need a foaming tire cleaner.
Here's what you need to get rubber, tire sidewalls surgically clean to prep them for a tire coating, and/or a tire dressing.
Look at how gross and neglected these tires are when the 34 Chevy arrived!
First Cleaning - see how the foam isn't very foam but is very dirty looking? With tires this neglected, it takes more than ONE cleaning.
After scrubbing tires, rinse away all the dirt and browning.
And this is KEY - also rinse the brush
If you don't rinse the brush after scrubbing - you'll never see white foam because the brush will continue to contaminate the next machien scrubbing process.
Then spray tire cleaner onto sidewall and repeat the machine scrubbing process. NOW look at the foam? Starting to turn white isn't it.
Then rinse the tire AND THE BRUSH!
Third Machine Scrubbing
After machine scrubbing the tire twice and rinsing both the tire and the brush each time, now look at the white foam machine scrubbing is creating? This is what you want to see.
When you see white foam
This is a good visual indicator that the tire sidewall is now clean, and you can move onto the next tire and repeat this process.
Machine scrubbed followed by machine applying the Dr. Beasley's Tire Conditioner
Mike
How to Prep Tires for a Tire Coating or Tire Dressing
I'm a big fan of tire coatings as compared to tire dressings - but only for the right tires and the right cars. I'm confident I have more articles and videos on this topic. That said, we're not going to use a tire coating on these tires, but I wanted to share our new foaming tire cleaner and walk through the process and thus explain why you want/need a foaming tire cleaner.
Here's what you need to get rubber, tire sidewalls surgically clean to prep them for a tire coating, and/or a tire dressing.
- Cordless Rotary Polisher - So you don't get shocked when working in a wet environment.
- 5" Rotary Brush - we now carry these on Dr. Beasley's website - if you learned this from me - reciprocate by buying the brush from Dr. Beasley's.
- Quality wheel cleaner - I'm using Dr. Beasley's Intensive Brake Dust Remover.
- Quality tire cleaner - this is in testing mode.
- Wheel brush.
- Water sprayer/hose or pressure washer.
Look at how gross and neglected these tires are when the 34 Chevy arrived!
First Cleaning - see how the foam isn't very foam but is very dirty looking? With tires this neglected, it takes more than ONE cleaning.
After scrubbing tires, rinse away all the dirt and browning.
And this is KEY - also rinse the brush
If you don't rinse the brush after scrubbing - you'll never see white foam because the brush will continue to contaminate the next machien scrubbing process.
Then spray tire cleaner onto sidewall and repeat the machine scrubbing process. NOW look at the foam? Starting to turn white isn't it.
Then rinse the tire AND THE BRUSH!
Third Machine Scrubbing
After machine scrubbing the tire twice and rinsing both the tire and the brush each time, now look at the white foam machine scrubbing is creating? This is what you want to see.
When you see white foam
This is a good visual indicator that the tire sidewall is now clean, and you can move onto the next tire and repeat this process.
Machine scrubbed followed by machine applying the Dr. Beasley's Tire Conditioner
Mike
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