Baked, Dirty Old tires--RENEW

[Comanche SS]

Found a deal on some General Grabber AT2 set of three for 120$ with 80% tread...pretty dirty so I did a deep entire clean and treatment. Thought id do a small write up.

This is the pic that was posted, as I saw.




Once I got them



Holding up to the comanche before cleaning






Size comaparison...They are 285/75/16 (compared to 265/70/16)



I took a medium duty soft bristle car washing brush and scrubbed light dirt off the surface of the tire first with car wash soap



Next was the hardest plastic brush short of a metal wire one

(repeat two steps above until bare rubber is visible like before)

Bare rubber vs mud baked rubber



first coat of tire shine to clean penetrating dirt and mud (10 mins then wipe off)



second coat of tire shine to polish and set into tire (put in an area where sun beats and lets poores of tires soak in the shine)





I wiped excess off to give it a more natural non shiny look.

Finally before and after














These tires are night and day difference, I have been searching for a good write up to clean baked tires, instead I made my own. I took about an hour on each side of each tire, spent twenty mins scrubbing and coating and waiting multiple times per side. It took awhile, but these two year old tires (date stamp) look brand new again. Its not a super hard or challenging thing to clean tires normally, but those of you who know how annoying it is with dirt and mud embedded into tires this is a life saver.