Tires and Dressings?

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Intercooled

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I'm just curious as to why different tires with the same dressing will look totaly different. My wifes car has Bridgestone tires with like a ridged texture on the side. My work truck has Michelin tires witha smooth texture on the side. I have used several different dressings on each and it seems the Bridgestome tire always looks wetter and smoother than the Michelin. :nixweiss

The Bridgestone seems to take the application better too. No streaking at all. I also notice this in some of the pics posted on here. Is there a chemical reason to this?

Rubber trype?
 
Yep, that's all I can assume. I guess not all tire sidewalls are created equally. Different tires apparently can mean dressings can look different on one from another.
 
I've noticed that the tires I dress that have a softer sidewall look better. Other tires that have never been dressed are all stiff and ready to start dry-rotting. Those ones never look very good, and they chew up my applicators too.
 
Different tire manufacturers use different materials to make their tires. It probably has to do with the actual chemical compostion of the tire. Also, a performance tire is going to have a different chemical make-up than an economy tire. Dressings, most likely, will respond differently to the chemical make-up of a particular tire.
 
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