Scrubbing Tires, did i do enough?

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NorcalZ71

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I have never been very good at doing my tires often, and it is especially a chore now since i got 38s a few weeks ago. Anyway, when i scrub them, i use a bucket of soap/water just for the tires, tire brush and some simple green (cant get the costco apc yet). I spray the whole sidewall down with SG, let it sit for a moment and then get to scrubbing with the brush, then with the soap/water as well. I scrub pretty well i think and it looks like a lot of junk is coming off the tires (water/foam is yellowish brown). However, when they dry they are very browned up and if i swipe my finger across them, brown, dirty residue comes off. I have never dressed these tires yet (like i said, only had them a few weeks). Are they just brown due to a lack of dressing, or did i not get them clean enough. Should they be all black without dressing, and just a deeper black with dressing?
 
Rubber is the dirtiest stuff on earth and is usually an ugly faded shade of brown w/o dressing, the more you straight wash the uglier they get. Just dress them and they will be fine. I couldn't get GR's link to open.
 
right on, thanks guys. They definitely need a good dressing, but the whole truck needs a very very very thorough detail anyways, so i will get on that hopefully next weekend
 
Using the A2Z Wheel/Tire Cleaner, I have always been able to get my tires black before dressing and the towel I use to dry them is always clean after I wipe them down. The few times I have been in a bind and used Orange Clean or Simple Green, it left the nasty brown residue you speak of. Every time I have dressed a tire in that condition, the brown always showed through. You should probably go ahead and add some sort of specialized rubber cleaner to your arsenal.
 
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