Tire Shine, a synthetic oil product, is not recommended for use on car interiors due to its high gloss finish. It creates a glossy shine on tires and can reflect on the dashboard. Black Magic Tire Wet, a water-based tire sealant, is not recommended as it creates a high gloss shine and will reflect on the dashboard.
One user used Black Magic Tire Wet once on their DSAh, but never again due to sun exposure. Meguiar’s Natural Shine can be used instead, which won’t hurt the tires but will get slung all over the rims and paint on doors and fenders. PERL, a product that can also be used for interiors, has been found to work wonders.
The “New Look Improved Formula” Black Magic Tire Wet is not suitable for use on interior vinyl, unless the car is garage-keeping and sunshades are used at all other times. It is highly advised against using this product on interior vinyl, as it can create a high gloss shine and reflect on the dashboard.
In conclusion, Tire Shine and Black Magic Tire Wet are not recommended for use on car interiors due to their high gloss finish and potential reflection on the dashboard. It is best to use Meguiar’s Natural Shine or PERL for interior protection and cleaning.
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VRP is Water-Based … it leaves STREAKS especially after it rains. But I do like the Spray Gun technique however, you get Overspray and can make your car wax job spotty and the Wheels need to be wiped. Meguiar’s Endurance tire gel. Is a huge surprise. After many years of using all types of tire shine and cleaning products. Endurance is very affordable and works like no tomorrow. Your tires do not even have to be very clean but not covered with mud. You will have to apply 2 or 3 coats but it goes on so easily. I have used the same all-purpose microfiber terry towel for 2 months. It is saturated with Mequiar’s Endurance tire gel. One 16-ounce bottle has enough gel to do 60 tires or more. Again, I have repeatedly used the same 8×8 microfiber towel and have never seen it contaminate or smug a tire I have already applied Endurance on often. It keeps your tires shiny, even after driving in the rain there is no noticeable loss of shine. It has a nice Gloss, not super gloss like having a mirror shine. Touch-up is a breeze if needed. I purchased 4 Mequiar’s Endurance tire gel a couple weeks ago from Advanced Auto Parts on sale 2 for $12, 4 for a total of $24 minus $5 Perks Reward was $20 making it $5 per bottle. Wow! For $20 I have enough tire gel to do my 2 cars for a whole year possibly 2 years. I have used a quarter or 1/4 of a bottle applied numerous times and on several of my neighbor’s vehicles. This Meguiar’s Endurance works like a charm. Oh! it smells a bit like grapes … nice odor.
#overspray I have used this spray gun method and the overspray is ridiculous. There is a reason that painters mask off the car. Unless you do this method first then plan to quick wax the car, then do the windows, the car will be covered with a fine layer of tireshine. Ultimately IMO it’s cool but you loose any “saved” time in the clean up process. Good old applicator and wipe is still my go to method. Sometimes less is more.
Do not kid yourself guys. Unless you have a shop with multiple detailer doing several at one time this will not save you any time. By the time you factor in set up and tare down of the compressor and hose and then add in cleaning of the gun and nozzles you will not save no time there. Then factor in the time to wipe down each wheel again along with the overspray you get on the paint you will actually be losing time. Let’s face it 95% of use will always get overspray on shit. So just get some wipe-on dressing and be done on the first go around
Hey Wilson great article as always. I have used this method before using the same gun. I actually like using harbor freights 120cc HVLP gun for the more tighter spaces as well as their 4oz spray gun. I actually use CG silk shine strait for grills and other areas. I’d dilute the CG VRP with less water, yes use more product but after setting the correct pressure it does lay nice without running. Everyone has there preferences but play with it a bit. Out of all of this, give the smaller HVLP guns a try. Especially Harbor Freight’s 120CC HVLP gun.
Luke you need to get a 4oz sprayer. It’s the small one that looks just like that one from the same brand at harbor freight. Also get a regulator and bump the PSI down to 40-50 or control the spray volume to taste. I was using superior products cover all aerosol cans for the efficiency or Aqua gloss on a applicator pad, but I just upgraded to a air compressor in the detail vehicle and hooked myself up with the 4oz detail sprayer version and SP Aqua Gloss for my detailer of choice 👌 probably will be using this from now on. O and you can use the small sprayer on interiors. Just buff off after but way faster to apply the product on larger plastic panels and get it into the cup holders everything real nice. Especially great on all the textured plastics we see
OMG Luke why? Its not just the gun and the product that has to be purchased but the compressor and hose not to mention that the set up and tear down time and then storage of said equipment would take more time than just grabbing a spray bottle and accomplishing the same task not to mention that water based tire shines do not last very long. In fact if they are exposed to water at any time they simply run off the tires. No customer wants that. Gotta say this time i do not agree.
The paint sprayer you want to use for MOST car detailing is a different compact model. We only use this large unit on engine bays & offroad truck tires with thick sidewalls and huge open fender wells. You want HF Part # 46719, Touch Up Air Spray Gun with air regulator included @ $29. It consumes far less air (works excellent with small pancake compressor), is a more compact unit (mobile detailers?), air regulator included so you don’t over power it with too much psi and blow seals, and with the plastic cup vs. metal cup of HF other compact unit it’s far easier to keep clean as well as to open/close. Dont fiddle with the factory air/product delivery setting for car detailing imo. We’ve used them all as setup out of the box with no overspray issues.
Been using this trick for years, but another thing I have done is made several different rim protectors, from size 14 to 22 Inches, to make them I bought some plexiglass and cut out the diameter I wanted then I took some thin rubber hose çut open to slide around the plexiglass to avoid scratches added a handle and marked the size with a marker, saves me a tone of time
Although water based, VRP must be applied with as little as possible. Spraying a film, or leaving a surplus in the rugged surface of a tire is not recommended. It is a quick fix for detailers. After a few months the treated surfaces will come out worse than before. I used it and I’m never happy with the result after a few months. I have used rubber and plastic restorers from the professional branche from Jaguar. It was a carbon based (oil) secret mixture, probably highly toxic, and it smelled like any high performance oil with additives. It needed to be applied on heated surfaces as to absorb and enclose the stuff. After cooling down and wiped clean, you could at least notice that the surface had been penetrated by the chemical oil. That lasted and restored for up to a year at least. Rubbing greasy emulsions like VRP, water based or not, onto plastic and rubber surfaces seems ineffective to me. And I proved it by using VRP in regard to many other greasy products. Yes, from ordinary butter, shoeshine and make up like lipstick etc. They all performed the same in an instant and showed their nasty greasy aging. So this is not a bash on VRP but to quick detailing prooducts in general to make a instant exterior impression. That to me is no different than paint (clear coat) sealants like wax, SiO or carbon products. I do use these for the hydrophoobis properties, but I would rather not. (windscreen on a misty day can look horrible as opposed to bare glass).
Luke – I love your articles but please slow down – your enthusiasm is great but its overshadowing the content of what you try and get across and without wanting to come across as rude you look like an over excited dancing looney bin. PLEASE SLOW DOWN. I want to view your articles and understand what it is your saying without having to actually slow the article rate down. Again I am not trying to upset you but reign the excitement in a little. Thanks.
Cool article! I like VRP, but I prefer using it on the interior of my car vs the exterior. I’ve found that it doesn’t last as long as Trim Shine does for my exterior. However, I do like the spray gun technique that you used with VRP. I’m not a pro detailer, just a lady who likes to keep her ride shiny, clean, and pristine.
doesn’t save much time at all, may actually cost you time in setup and cleaning up of overspray as literally everyone else has mentioned BUT the great thing about doing it this way is it’s way less taxing on the environment, the various ecosystems, the o-zone layer as it doesn’t use an expectorant to expel the already toxic chemicals and we dont get cans in a landfill as only so many are recycled.
What about the overspray? Wilson i hope you take this feedback with integrity, but you’re honestly no different than the influencer instagram people i see. My problem is that a lot of detailers look up to you and when you provide information like this without even talking about any cons or repercussions they’re gonna go ahead and do sloppy work. Even a spray bottle has over spray, now you’re introducing an even finer mist without cleaning around. Why do you think people mask so much when working with spray guns? The overspray is not controllable and you’re blasting that thing with over 80-100 psi that won’t come out of a bottle.
Why not use something like a tornador with the liquid can attached? Seems like it would do similar results without having to (potentially) purchase a paint sprayer (and I know those can be cheap at harbor freight). With that said, think I’d have to pass on this method of applying really anything. I don’t see much of a difference between using a pump up spray bottle vs using the method you did….except now I don’t have to worry about an air compressor, air compressor hose etc. Most detailer have their own pump sprayers laying around
For maintenance washes, after the final rinse use the HVLP sprayer for putting down an ultra thin, perfectly even coat of Bead Maker or similar drying aid. The water beads off in the direction you spray, you can dry it easier, no spotting and I think better protection from what I see. I use 50:50 Bead Maker:distilled water on the paint, fender wells, wheels, everything. The vehicles seem to get easier and easier to wash and stay clean-looking for longer, even after 3-4 weeks without a wash.