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Why spend $4-$5 on store bought cleaner when you can do it at home with house hold cleaners? Here's a trick my girlfriend showed me (yes I know again....I think she's a keeper) that's never failed.

She showed me this trick when I bought some white wall cleaner from WalMart and it failed me right before a car show I was taking my Silverado to. You will need the following
1. 5 gallon pail with lid
2. stiff bristle scrub brush
3. Dawn Dish soap
4. House hold Ammonia
5. Baking soda
6. Water source, hose works best
7. Rubber gloves (recommended)

Steps:
1. pour a generous amount of dish soap into pail then Fill pail to 4 gallons or so with water
2. add a generous amount of Ammonia, and a handful of baking powder to the water,
3. wet tire you are cleaning
4. dip scrub brush into pail, ans scrub the white wall/lettering untill you see the dirt mixing with the suds. keep scrubbing for a minute or two, then rinse off. repeat if needed. Good as new!

when done, tire wet can be used as that finishing touch. place lid on pail and save for next time, Mix well each use. I got a year out of my last pail full, then used the nasty brown water as weed killer, those damn weeds never grew back


This was done on tires that spent about their first 20,000 miles on gravel roads and where never cleaned them selves. The white lettering was almost as brown as the gravel road. took two cleanings to get them bleach white the first time. I clean them this way every time I wash and wax the truck.

Same here.

I buy it by the gallon at Dollar General for $3