Yesterday I spent about two hours cleaning our 2012 Honda Odyssey's tires as preparation for applying Tuf Shine tire coating. I used our 3000psi, 2.7gpm washer with the green (cleaning) tip to prerinse and rinse, Tuf Shine Tire Cleaner at 1:1 for cleaning, the Mothers tire brush for initial scrubbing, and the Griot's 6" DA mated to the aqua Cyclo interior brush for thorough scrubbing.
So the tires got prerinsed, an initial scrubbing with the tire brush, rinsed, and two passes with the Griot's polisher and interior brush with a thorough rinse after each pass.
'Twas a lot of bending so I was too tired to coat the tires after all this prep.
I'll coat the tires three times today, or maybe twice today and once in the morning.
The tires were last coated in May of last year and didn't need recoating until I tried to use the last few ounces of some prediluted Tuf Shine cleaner I had in a bottle. The cleaner took about 40% of the coating away on one pass, leaving me with no choice but to go ahead and give the tires another coating.
The tires were first treated to Tuf Shine in May or June of 2014. They were overly shiny for a couple of weeks, shiny for another two or three weeks, and settled into a very nice black sheen for about ten months. I recoated them in May 2015 because of a few scuffs.
They were cleaned approximately twice each month with Meguiar's D101 APC at 1:4 and the Mother's tire brush. This type of cleaning is overkill for Tuf Shine-coated tires, but that's what I did.
Aside from the pollen the weather was nice. It was about 73°F outside.
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