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Tiefighterpilot Senior Member Offline Daily Rider Posts: 346 San Francisco	What do you use to keep your tires shiny and black 04/17/10 at 23:16:52 My tires are fading and dull. What do you use to care for your tires? Thanks.
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RTC Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 260 El Paso, TX (Ft. Bliss) Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #1 - 04/17/10 at 23:26:01 i use armor all but i've heard from unconfirmed sources that if you dont consistently reapply i will dry them out and make it worse...so i consisently reapply. i applies two weeks ago and it still looks good
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RTC Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 260 El Paso, TX (Ft. Bliss) Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #2 - 04/17/10 at 23:28:04 btw is that your helmet in your pic there? dont you know you cant ride a cruiser in a full face
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wolfmrp Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 259 Portland Or	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #3 - 04/17/10 at 23:30:08 I use dirt and rain water. Results may very.
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BurnPgh Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1732	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #4 - 04/18/10 at 00:09:41 wolfmrp wrote on 04/17/10 at 23:30:08: I use dirt and rain water. Results may very. +1
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Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b
Reply #5 - 04/18/10 at 00:15:01

RTC wrote on 04/17/10 at 23:26:01:

i use armor all but i've heard from unconfirmed sources that if you dont consistently reapply i will dry them out and make it worse...so i consisently reapply. i applies two weeks ago and it still looks good

There have been numerous reports on the 'net that Armour All does just that. Supposedly it has some chemical in it that dries the rubber/vinyl out, requiring more of the product to be re-applied. I used it since it first was introduced, and at that time it worked well on vinyl, rubber and plastic. Years later it seems the formula changed, because Armour All started to recommend that you not apply it to plastic. I didn't realize that the formula had changed and didn't read the new warnings, and applied it to the tailights of my car. It streaked them badly, and you could feel the marks with your fingernail. That never happened before. Also, a vinyl dashboard on one of my cars cracked and split with the new formula, whereas they never did with the old formula. I now never use it for anything.

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RadRacer Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 50 Petaluma,Calif Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #6 - 04/18/10 at 00:27:41 if u use any type of tire polish or whatever u like to call it if it gets wet it ends up on the tread and gets very dangerous BE AWARE
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jsarsfield Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 72	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #7 - 04/18/10 at 03:15:26 RadRacer wrote on 04/18/10 at 00:27:41: if u use any type of tire polish or whatever u like to call it if it gets wet it ends up on the tread and gets very dangerous BE AWARE My thoughts exactly ... Shiny=Slippery ... Not a good thing for tires IMO. Clean, dull and black works for me.
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Stimpy - FSO Serious Thumper Offline SuzukisSavage Int'l Division Posts: 1203 Germany - formerly SD, SoCal Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #8 - 04/18/10 at 04:19:34 Shiny=Slippery / Clean, dull and black works for me. +1
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Tiefighterpilot Senior Member Offline Daily Rider Posts: 346 San Francisco	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #9 - 04/18/10 at 08:33:35 Thanks for the postings. I will keep my tires free of dressings until motor cycle friendly one is available. And yes, that is my helmet.
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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #10 - 04/18/10 at 10:47:14 Spit on a rag
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Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b
Reply #11 - 04/18/10 at 11:58:50

Nothing belongs on tires, IMO, But, IF I was gonna, Id go with Fuser Oil, from copiers. Get it while you can, its being phased out. I got a few pints @ $5.00 each. Its 100% silicone oil, the active ingredient in Armor All, w/o the VOC's that do the damage. I use fuser oul on plastics & rubber, even the boots on the steering & U joints on the cars. Car interiors & windshield rubbers & window rubbers. Keep that crap OFFA the windshield.
With each new batch I try it in an inconspicuous spot & wait a few days & see if it has attacked/softened/crazed or in any way damaged the plastic/rubber whatever. You may still be able to get some fuser oil from a copier repair place, especially if they buy & sell used copiers.
Minolta & Ricoh had fuser oils that werent so thinck that they wouldnt wipe on easy enough. Just ask for a fuser oil that isnt too thick or too watery. A spot the size of a dime will cover & treat a pretty good sized area, like a couple of square feet. Well, IF the dash is dry & thirsty, it wont, but after its been treated once, it wont soak it up again.

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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #12 - 04/18/10 at 15:19:02 They want be shiny but westleys white wall cleaner will clean the tires and they want be slick.
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RTC Senior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 260 El Paso, TX (Ft. Bliss) Gender:	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #13 - 04/18/10 at 21:41:22 i think deep black sidewalls look wonderful and if you only keep the product on the sidewall and dont ride like a mania, you shouldnt have any problems
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jsarsfield Junior Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 72	Re: What do you use to keep your tires shiny and b Reply #14 - 04/18/10 at 23:46:57 RTC wrote on 04/18/10 at 21:41:22: i think deep black sidewalls look wonderful and if you only keep the product on the sidewall and dont ride like a mania, you shouldnt have any problems What happens when it rains and centrifugal force pulls that shine onto your tires?
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