I took some pics of the scrubbed off tire sidewall

**Silverstone** · 07-23-2011, 05:25 PM

This is the case of the tires I scrubbed with a very stiff brush and now they wont take a shine anymore.

The lighter area at the upper edge is where I 'missed' scrubbing with the brush. It's smooth and still shines up nicely. The rest is rougher and kind of like brushed suede.

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Is there any way to fix this or am I stuck with it for the next 40,000 miles?

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**Bunky** · 07-23-2011, 05:28 PM

Did you brush with a steel wire type brush?

**Silverstone** · 07-23-2011, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Bunky

Did you brush with a steel wire type brush?

No, it was a stiff plastic bristle brush I found in a store somewhere.

**Twister** · 07-23-2011, 09:51 PM

It still should shine if you put some product on it. I've used a wire brush on white lettering and didn't sorry about how far I got onto the black and it still shined up. Ive scrapped against a curb too and they still shine up

**Matt** · 07-23-2011, 11:32 PM

That's really strange. You sure that it's not that the tyre is now really clean in those areas so the dressing isn't building up on itself and creating extra glossy shine by layering on itself?

Try adding several layers of tire dressing and see what the outcome is. What kind of tyre dressing are you using?

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**flamed03vert** · 07-23-2011, 11:47 PM

Maybe its from riding on the sidewalls of the stretched tire on the wide rim. Can see the bead lip sticking out way past the sidewall and the sidewalls are contorted. Hope they last 40,000 miles for ya without creating a severe safety hazard.

**Kristopher1129** · 07-24-2011, 12:46 AM

Some of those pictures didn't load for me...but, I don't see any damage that would cause the tire to not shine. I would try some different products. Maybe the stuff you're using is just soaking in, or it's possibly not a solvent?

**Bunky** · 07-24-2011, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by flamed03vert

Maybe its from riding on the sidewalls of the stretched tire on the wide rim. Can see the bead lip sticking out way past the sidewall and the sidewalls are contorted. Hope they last 40,000 miles for ya without creating a severe safety hazard.

It does look like the tire and rim do not match at all.

**BobbyG** · 07-24-2011, 06:13 AM

The rim does appear to be awfully wide for the tire.

Also, if the tire is under inflated and you've been pushing it through high speed turns it's possible that the sidewall had come in contact with the road surface?

I really don't know but I've never seen a plastic bristle brush wear the sidewall on a tire just by scrubbing and cleaning...

Do the others exhibit the same affects?
With the same brush and method do a test spot on one of them and see if the results are similar.

**Matt** · 07-24-2011, 07:14 AM

You can stretch tires over the rims to a cartain extent. Generally tires have a width that would be rated 235, but somewhere on the tire info sheet you'll find it written "rim width 225-245" (or a variation of that- usually a smaller variance) as the 235 generally referrs to the tread width. Personally I hate the stretched tire look, I think it's ugly but it's common with the boy racer cars. There is a Toyota Altezza and a BMW 3series near where I park that have both done that- crummy look for crummy cars if you ask me (not saying that the OP's is crummy tho coz I don't know what kind of car he has).