Technical TIRES TURNING BROWN (BLOOMING)

Last year I installed new tires and cleaned the tires and they looked great, in April I scrubbed the tires and they looked great, Saturday while at the downtown car show I noticed the tires look like they are turning brown again.

It almost looks like I been driving down a dusty road.

What are you guys using to prevent this? HRP

 

Drive them down a dust road, leave as is

 

The real cause of why tires turn brown is a process called "blooming" This blooming, or tire browning, occurs mainly because of an element added to the rubber called antiozonant. It saves tires from premature drying and cracking due to the process of oxidation. It’s a continuing process that can be prevented by thoroughly cleaning and protecting the tires.

Taken from a auto detailing site...

 

Ask the original tire seller about what happening. I think I see this a bit on some Coker’s I bought on the black part. But its a daily so, not a show car at all.
Can people chime in with protectant to use? Like the John Deere stuff?

 

Maybe give them a coat of tire black, like the stuff the car wash joints smear on tires.

 

I had tires turning brown, Soap and water scrubbing just did not get rid of the brown. I recently bought a bottle of Adam's Polishes Wheel and Tire cleaner because they said it would get rid of tire "blooming". It really works. Leaves the tire it's natural black color. Looks great. Easy to use.

 

I prefer STP Son Of A Gun and use it each time I detail my cars. I am fortunate in that I have room to keep all 5 of my cars indoors and out of the sun so no issues with discolored tires. Hot Shine also works well as does Armor All. I use the STP on rubber goods under the hood and it does a terrific job of cleaning things up.

 

It is much more common now that before. The manufacturer seems to not be adding enough carbon to the rubber mixture during the manufacturing process. Rubber is actually more white in color, the carbon is what makes tires black.
I have a new set of Vredestein tires on my daily driver that are more brownish or light greyish than black. I have to treat them with tire dressing to keep them black.
I prefer my tires to look satin black instead of glossy or shiny, the best product I have found for this look is from Griots Garage. https://www.griotsgarage.com/black-satin-tire-coating-15-ounces/ every other product I have tried makes the tires look like shiny plastic. I scrub the tire with Wesley’s bleach white before applying the satin dressing.
https://www.blackmagicshine.com/tire-care/bleche-wite-tire-cleaner/

 

I like the Adam's also because it is water based. Some of the other stuff builds up and is hard to scrub off.

 

Spray on Purple Power, let it sit for a couple of minutes, then scrub with a soapy water soaked brush. Rinse. May have to repeat, depending on how dirty they are. Works for me.

 

I thought this "browning" was common, I have seen it for years. I just various products to overcome it. Last I think is a product that McQuires [sp] makes. Not shiny.

 

Labor intensive but above mentioned purple power or bleche white spray bottles and a scrub brush works the morning of the show
Then a few days later, brown again

 

x3 for Bleche Wite. At least the "original". What I have is OLD. I read that Black Magic bought them out and has a "New Formula". The interweb says it's not as strong as it once was. Too bad, the "old" stuff really cleaned a tire. Mike

 

I did that when I first bought the tires and again back in April, they have bloomed once again

Yeah, that's exactly what mine are doing. HRP

 

I used Purple Power and a stiff bristle brush on a regular basis when I had wide white walls and they stayed looking good, but these black walls have bloomed in 2 months. HRP

 

I have also noticed that Bleach White is reformulated since Black Magic acquired the name. Locally we have a product that is called DC99, (DW Davies Company) it is a very strong degreaser that needs to be diluted but works well on tires to clean them. It does not make them black if the pigment of the rubber does not have enough carbon, but it cleans the rubber of all dirt etc.

 

I didnt say they wouldnt turn brown again. I just said the purple power will clean it off. You are going to have to clean them occasionally.

 

I guess I'm looking for a magic Bullitt, clean it once and be done, I understand need cleaning ever now and then but just want to be done with the brown look.

 

Only way to slow the browning effect is to keep them out of the sun whenever you can. I use a bucket of soapy water and Scotch Brite pads to clean the brown off, and it makes them look good again. But if I leave my hotrods parked outside I have cheap canvas tire covers I put over them to protect them from the sun.

 

I have been using Simple Green for years, every time I wash the car or truck, to remove that brown coloration.........works great for me.....

 

HRP, you might want to try Meguiar's Natural Shine Protectant. I don't like shiny tires. Natural Shine, when used sparingly, leaves an almost flat finish. The tires shown below were wiped down with Natural Shine about a month ago.

 

I don't know how good it is for the tire's, but I wipe the brown off with Lacquer thinner and then spray some Lemon Pledge furniture wax on them, then rub it in real good. Gives a nice dark black satin finish.

 

Just be careful of the Purple Power and Simple Green on polished aluminum wheels.

 

I don't know how it would work for you, but I like Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner for tires. spray it on the dry tire, let it foam up and wash it off with water and a bug sponge or wet brush.

Gary

 

I use brillo blue pads. cleans brown off . I keep our car under a car cover, in the garage out of sunlight.

 

Is this the same crud that comes up through the whitewalls and turns them into "beige walls"?

 

I have the same problem with white-walls turning brown on my tyres.

@36roadster
The quick remedy is Aerosol spray engine degreaser onto a scotch pad , and also spray the tyres with degreaser and give it a quick scrub.
And wash off with water.

This can be done in 5 minutes [without hours of labor] Sort of like "spot detailing" and the tyres look sharp.
It's not permanent fix as it slowly browns again in about 9 months

It beats the cheap crap painted tyre look

 

Ironically I just began using Lemon Pledge again about a month ago. That's what we used when I was a teenager before the Shiny Armor All type stuff came along. I just scrub with Ajax and a scotch brite pad before applying Lemon Pledge.

 

Hello,
In the early days, we used the small blue/yellow can of RuGLYDE for just about anything. It was available at all auto parts stores, and neighborhood gas stations. It worked on everything. Clean and protected.


But then, Armor All showed up and took over the process we were doing monthly on our hot rods. Armor All was like the word “Skippy Peanut Butter” or “Band-Aid” popularity. The brand's rubber protectant formula being invented in the early 1960s and it became popularized by the early ‘70s.
22 year old spray bottle
Its accessibility in any store of any kind played right into the everyday automotive uses. It was a one stop shopping experience. But, did it work? On leather upholstery, if one could get over the instant clean and shiny surface, along with the dry squeeky feel, then yes, it worked. The term almost had a life of its own... A noun became a verb... "Did you Armour All the tires?"

On tires, it did the same thing, cleaned the surface and made it somewhat shiny. If the finish shine was too much, then a clean rag wiped off the glow. It protected and cleaned up anything on the rubber tires. Road grime, brake dust, and the weekly “browning” of the untreated tires.

We used it on all of our cars, hot rods, El Camino tires, and radials when we put them on instead of bias ply. Now, the cars handled much better and still had the hot rod look with the blackwalls and painted rims.

When we had the power spray machines nearby, they cleaned everything off and the new spray coating did its job. It protected and kept the blackwalls nice and black. But, nearing a month, the daily grind did its number on the tire surfaces and coating of what ever began to show up, again, brake dust, grime and brown coating that made blackwalls looking old.

Jnaki

So, by this time the monthly detailing began again. Everything we tried lasted about a month.
During our 20 year sailing adventures, we used different products from the local marine supply store. But eventually, ended up using the blue Meguiars Solution and the 303 Protectant. Since we have now retired from sailing, they got used on our daily drivers as tire cleaners and protectants. They worked just as good as Armor-All, but when they were empty, we reverted back to our tried and true, Armor-All spray/wipe solution.

For some reason, the newer brand of tires now have lasted longer than a month of driving. Relatively, no cleaning is necessary and if I happen to rub on one tire with a leg, it does not get a film of anything on my skin. So, something in the newer tire compound is helping to keep the blackwalls black. We haven’t used the Armor All for awhile as our blackwalls are staying cleaner and show up as black.

 

And be doubly careful to keep it off off skin.
Maybe just me, but it turn my hands into cardboard. They feel burnt, for a day or so.