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Powder White Wall Cleaner

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wood

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Years ago we used to use powder whitewall cleaner. We have gotten away from it for a long, long time. Besides the housekeeping mess sometimes, it was also a pain to refill a lot more often then liquid.

With no tire brushes, I wanted to help with online cleaning, and I believe save cost. That coupled with the fact there are less and less whitewalls the time spent making up product will be less.

Does anybody have any product recomendations? Also, where would I purchase a mixing pump? If I am offsides and shouldn't go down this path please comment and advise as well.

Thanks,
Wood
 
I remember the scoops, the powders and the mixers, proper dilution issues. . What a mess, what a pain, good riddance. I remember being in the back room of an old Nat'l pride location which simplified the powder issue somewhat by having the powder in a basket inside the mixing drum where it was basicaly a supersaturated solution, and then would be diluted to proper strength from there. 1. Just what % of WW tires do you get? We are definitely less than 5% and maybe less than 1%. 2. Are you applying a wheel cleaner? How does that do on any whitewalls? It would seem if it would clean the wheels it would clean the whitewall depending on what equipment you have.
3. Since we have so few whitewalls I have eliminated the tire brush at 2 places, changed one to a poodle brush and I am thinking of eliminating the other tire brush May do so shortly.

The whitewall cleaning issue is the same as the "Lock freezing issue". I still get comments from people who worry about locks freezing below 32 degrees. Their eyes get wide when I ask "When was the last time you used a key to unlock your door? "
 
Less than 5% thats seems very low.We wash a ton of sport utilities, and most of them have white lettered tires.We have a whitewall function at the greeting center and we typically run that function at least 25%.Tire brushes in my opinion are a must nothing worse then a clean Tahoe with dirty whitelettered tires.
Also helps the application of tire shine.We use a product from Shore Chemical called tire magic at an 8:1 ratio works great
 
I could see how demographis might affect the percentage. We are in very urban areas. Driving between locations this weekend took note of the % of WW and raised white letter tires, realizing that the overall population may not exactly reflect the customer demographic.

Anyway, the percentage was definitely less than 5%. So much so that I decided to return the new tire brush just del'd for one location and decommission the unit.

Wraps (Soem doubles) and lower detail brushes (Some doubles)get tires clean enough for the tire shine.
 
my s.u.v. and car whitewall total 15-20%. so if i can get get a powder whitewall recommendation, that would be great. at that % it is enough to care, but wont need to make up batch as often compared to 15 years ago.

so the less use cost and results are worth it for me. any powder product suggestions would be appreciated.

wood
 
wood said:
my s.u.v. and car whitewall total 15-20%. so if i can get get a powder whitewall recommendation, that would be great. at that % it is enough to care, but wont need to make up batch as often compared to 15 years ago.

so the less use cost and results are worth it for me. any powder product suggestions would be appreciated.

wood
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