Pinnacle Black Onyx Tire Gel (New Formula) Review

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Mike
Last year I was the lucky winner of this giveaway. The prize was a bottle of the improved formula Wolfgang Leather Conditioner, which great by the way and a bottle of the new formula Pinnacle Black Onyx.

I have used this on a couple family members daily drivers but always with one coat. With one coat it just made the tires look black and durability just seemed ok. I ended up shelving it as I was using a tire coating on my personal car (which is a daily driver) and I wanted a little more sheen. Nothing overly glossy.

Well I have since gotten new wheels and tires on my car and the other day I wanted to try something new as the previous go to tire gel (Meguiar's D163) had seen it's end of life. FYI these tires were being finicky when I got them. They would not take any tire coating after many cleanings. So I went with a tire gel until they started to behave. This way I was not wasting the tire coating.

I gave the tires a good cleaning with Meguiar's D143 and I saw the bottle of Pinnacle Black Onyx and said what the heck I'll use that. I was going to initially apply one coat but I went with two as I wanted a little more gloss. The directions on the bottle state to add another coat to add more gloss.

Well here are the results.

In low light the tires look black

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Here is how it looks as the sun was setting.

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Ignore the clear coat failure on the rear bumper lol. It's typical for this style car. I'm in the process of getting some things resprayed on this car.

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I was impressed with the look of 2 coats. The tire gel is a not as thick as Meguiar's D163 tire & trim gel. It's pink in color. It spread out nicely. It did not sling. Glad I gave this a second chance. I can't comment on durability just yet but after a 4 days it looks like it's holding up very well.
 
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