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Summary: To clean the tires on a car, first spray them down with an all-purpose cleaner, scrub in the product with a stiff-bristled brush and then apply a tire dressing with the included applicator. Wipe down the cleaned tires using a microfiber cloth with cleaning advice from the owner of a car detailing service in this free video on car maintenance.
Ezra Gipson is the owner of Reflections Automobile Appearance Care in Nashville, Tenn., a mobile car washing and detailing service provider. Gipson received his certification in auto...read more
"Hello today we are going to talk about the general process of cleaning your tires during the car wash process, the things that you are going to need is an all purpose tire cleaner, tire dressing, the tire dressing applicator and a brush to clean the tires. The first thing you want to do is spray it down with your tire cleaner, brush and agitate the cleaner along the wheels of the tires. Another important step is to take a microfiber towel and dry the tire removing any brake dust, wipe the tire down. Another important step that people often forget is cleaning the wheel wells so that if you have any dirt that is trapped up in here it won't fall back down on your tire. So once I have sprayed my cleaner I take my brush and then go along the wheel well making sure to loosen any dirt there and take my sprayer, spray inside of the wheel well, take a microfiber cloth and dry the wheel well making sure that you get all up in there so we don't have any debris falling upon the tire. After we have done that we are going to take our tire dressing and we are going to spray some on our applicator. You can do it two ways or spray it directly on the tire like so making sure that you go back counterclockwise and clockwise then we are going to take our applicator and then work the tire dressing on to the tire. Then what you have is a fully cleaned and dressed tire."