justin30513
Mobile Detailing Services
I've developed a new tire cleaning/dressing process (well new to me) and thought I'd share it with the rest of you here. I've tested this for over a month on over 15 vehicles including my own. I'm a big fan of Armor All's Extreme Shine Tire Gel and Foam. Both have great durability and the cost is perfect for my customers. The foam was being used totally as a wheel well finisher when I noticed something. I would clean the wells and then spray the foam onto them. I'd come back and wipe down with a white MF mitt. I could not believe the dirt that the foam was pulling out of the plastics and rubber. So I decided to use the foam on tires as prep for the gel.
Heres what I do....
1. I clean the tires along with car as usual. I just use degreaser if bad or my left over wash water.
2. I rinse the car and tires clean. While wet, I spray the AA foam onto the tires and wheel wells. I also spray onto a clean, wet engine too. The car remaining wet helps aid in the removal of any overspray as well. I let the tires and wells dwell as I dry the car. I then come back and use a MF mitt to remove any remaining residue. You will be amazed at what dirt and grime comes out of nowhere now.
3. The tire now will appear a matte, clean, black glow. To me, I just polished aka prepped the tire for a LSP aka the AA gel. The gel now goes on so smooth and takes even less product than with a non foam prepped tire. The gel's durabililty now goes from a week (which is awesome to me for an OTC product) to full month in most cases. I only do this process on my initial detail of an auto or when I feel it needs it......just like paint prep. I know this may seem like a lengthy process to some, but prep is 90% of the game in my business. All of this is achieved from under 10.00 worth of products (Foam is 2.55 and Gel is 5.47 at my Wal-Mart). Expect to get 2-3 uses out of a can of AA foam and 50+ uses out of the AA gel depending on tire size.
****I'm currently testing the AA foam/gel system on the trim of a '99 Jeep Cherokee with tons of rubber/plastic moldings.
Please post questions or comments.
Thanks guys. You all are great!
Heres what I do....
1. I clean the tires along with car as usual. I just use degreaser if bad or my left over wash water.
2. I rinse the car and tires clean. While wet, I spray the AA foam onto the tires and wheel wells. I also spray onto a clean, wet engine too. The car remaining wet helps aid in the removal of any overspray as well. I let the tires and wells dwell as I dry the car. I then come back and use a MF mitt to remove any remaining residue. You will be amazed at what dirt and grime comes out of nowhere now.
3. The tire now will appear a matte, clean, black glow. To me, I just polished aka prepped the tire for a LSP aka the AA gel. The gel now goes on so smooth and takes even less product than with a non foam prepped tire. The gel's durabililty now goes from a week (which is awesome to me for an OTC product) to full month in most cases. I only do this process on my initial detail of an auto or when I feel it needs it......just like paint prep. I know this may seem like a lengthy process to some, but prep is 90% of the game in my business. All of this is achieved from under 10.00 worth of products (Foam is 2.55 and Gel is 5.47 at my Wal-Mart). Expect to get 2-3 uses out of a can of AA foam and 50+ uses out of the AA gel depending on tire size.
****I'm currently testing the AA foam/gel system on the trim of a '99 Jeep Cherokee with tons of rubber/plastic moldings.
Please post questions or comments.
Thanks guys. You all are great!