So we have a good month of free time this summer left. So we have been cleaning and painting the fleet. We have a fleet of 30 buses and I want to shine the tires for the first few days of school. Its really a shame with lots of nice black and yellow paint to have the faded and bland tires.
I have heard people mention ATF cut with diesel but I'm not sure if this is good for the rubber. I don't really wanna buy a product because that will get expensive.
So does anyone have a suggestion on what they do or would do?
I'm jealous, I've never had time to burn in the Summer. It's crunch time for us until school starts. Tire shine works good from ORielly's one can will do about 2 or 3 buses.
Tire paint. The same stuff they paint the tires with after retreading. Been a long time since I bought some, but if I remember correctly, it wasn't expensive. I just woke up and notice Mechanic said the same thing :)
That said, years ago, almost 40 to be exact, the paint shop foreman where I worked used brake fluid to shine the tires on every truck he painted. I never did it, but since we hardly ever saw the trucks again I can't say whether or not it damaged the tires. That was back when Imron was the latest, greatest thing.
I clean my tires with a product called "whitewall 1000" from superior. I spray it on with a pump spray bottle and then blast it off with a pressure washer. It removes that "faded" look you are talking about. The advantage is that it doesn't attract dust like a tire shine. It just cleans the tire and brings out the natural black. No shine, just looks like a new tire.
Best way to shine tires.
Posted - 08/01/2017 : 12:29:33 PM
