Aero Cosmetics Ceramic Tire Dressing Protector, No Tire Shine, No Dirt or Brake Dust Attracting Residue 16 Fl. oz (2-Pack) Satin/Matte Finish Stays Clean Longer Cleans Up Easier Aircraft Grade

After having tried many different tire dressings, I really like this one a lot. It'll probably be my new go to tire dressing now. Rubber Care is quick and easy to apply unlike the thick gels I've used in the past which required a lot of elbow grease to work the dressing into the rubber. I've never liked greasy looking sidewalls as well as the associated messy sling onto body panels so I appreciate the satin, no-sling finish of Rubber Care. Another factor for me is that this product helps to nourish and protect rubber. If I can help prolong the time before the inevitable cracking and tire rot with age, I want to do it. I've done a few washes/rinses at the car wash with high pressure and the tires still look clean with no browning. That must be the ceramic component helping to extend lifespan. I like using the Chemical Guys Wonder Wave treaded applicators to apply tire dressings because the foam is durable and the ridges help to get the dressing onto uneven sidewall surfaces. All my cars have lower profile sidewalls so I find if I cut the applicators in half, they work really well and I get more uses out of them. Step 3 (a wipedown with a damp towel) is the most important step with this product so make sure you don't skip it. The water-based dressing doesn't absorb evenly so you will have spots all over your sidewalls if you don't go over them with a damp towel. I use old microfiber applicators (thick ones with a foam core) for this step so I don't ruin my good microfiber towels. For step 4, once again so I don't ruin my good microfiber towels, I do a light pass with those thick, blue disposable shop towels.

I had just bought all new suspension parts for my old Mercedes and to avoid this job again in 5 years, I wanted to treat the rubber with a conditioning protectant prior to assembly. After researching a recommendation for another product by a well known automotive youtuber, I read the reviews and did more research and decided against buying the other stuff. It was more $, smaller quantity, and the company had issued a statement NOT to use it on any external auto parts, internal ONLY. So I kept searching on my auto forums online, on Amazon, on youtube, etc. People recommended everything from Vaseline to Cocoa Butter- what? Finally I discovered several people SWORE by this stuff from an avionics product company. Few vehicles are subjected to the extremes that airplanes are I thought.. So thanks to Amazon, and their web site I was able to find a phone number- and they're NOT in China or child labor factory but in San Antonio! So I called and actually spoke to a tech whose name escapes me, but he explained the different products and applications to me. I asked about treating rubber suspension, etc. And he said that it would help prevent the drying, cracking and premature failure of Mercedes parts if they are made of rubber. So I bought a cheap spray bottle at the dollar store and waited. A couple days later the order came, I filled the sprayer and lightly moistened all the rubber bushings, Etc. I let everything sit overnight, and the next day I wiped off the excess (which wasn't that much- like the rubber drank the stuff) and the parts were installed. Since then I've sprayed it on my 60+ year old rubber mallet that was my grandfather's and the wife's tires, a few other things. It seems to be improving the look of the rubber but protecting it too. I'm very happy with the purchase. And although I wondered how long it would take to go through that big jug of Rubber Care stuff, I'm already almost thru the first spray bottle. I'm going to experiment with it on all the other stuff I spray protectants on, like those crappy plastic headlights, etc. And see how it does. Just be sure to only put it on CLEAN surfaces, (that was what the tech guy told me.) So, big jug of it for less $ than a little spray bottle of other stuff, highly recommended, wide application, seems to work well, nontoxic, Made in SATX, USA! Thumbs up! Hope this is helpful!

I like this product. It leaves a clean, satin look to the tires and not a plastic look. I put this on our RV tires and cover the wheels. I’m always pleased with the look of the tires when removing the covers. It feels and looks like it “moisturizes” the tires and helps keep them looking new. RV tires because of sitting are prone to damage from UV rays and dry rot. I believe this product will help the tires last longer. This is different than other tire dressing products I’ve used and will definitely buy again. I have also put this on black plastic parts and have been pleased with the results. Easy to put on and the bottle should last a few months using it once a month.

Right out in front it's important to say that, when it comes to effective, accurate-results, down-to-earth honest claims, minimal side-effects in products for protecting your CAR, the products that are made specifically for MARINE or AIRCRAFT (instead of primarily for a car), are often the better alternative. Is it because there are so many Regulations that ban these products from containing the ingredients that "will give fish brain damage" or "will leach onto runways and hamper aircraft use, etc, etc,".... that creates a product that is super safe for your car's increasingly-modernized and sensitive surfaces? Is it because stuff that's meant to protect cloth from salt corosion and paint from ice at 8000 ft altitude is going to have an easy job protecting your car from pidgeons? Who knows. I have used Tri-Nova marine and aero products for much of my car's plastic and rubber seals and trims. They have become the only products I can rely on, and they really were originally intended for boats and marinas, not cars. So I had no problem trying out this aircraft-intended tire dressing. I've been researching it since back when it was advertised ONLY for planes and airplane tires.... before the word started to travel to some of those performance car chat sites and such. But let me list the NEGATIVE observations first! Hopefully the company is reading this, and will make some small adjustments for us car owners, because these are issues that do frustrate owners of CARS. ONE-the bottle is too small, and doesn't hold much product. Car owners put more dirt and crud on their tires each week than airplane pilots do on their landing gear tires...so we drivers will likely need to reapply this stuff more often. The price is nice a affordable, so a bigger bottle is advised. TWO-the spray nozzle that comes with the bottle shoots way too wide a pattern for our little sidewalls, so we end up with white spray wasted on the floor and on the rims that we have to wipe up. (Drivers, I recommend swapping out the nozzle for one you have around the garage or kitchen somewhere, or your money will be lost in lots of wasteful over-spray). That's the end of the negatives. The positives come next: ONE, this is not a tire glaze or tire shine product. No matter what you do with it to try to "boost" a shine out of it, it WILL NOT make your rubber tires sparkle or gleam. MOST owners DO WANT a shine to show off the newness of their tires (it complements all the wax and polish they worked hard to put on every part of their car). SOME owners want what I call a "pimp wax" look, a gloss that makes it look like you got your spouse to rub on some baby oil or cake frosting with the speckles in it (glazing the tire surface so you can't even read what brand of tire that is anymore---it's all glaze and no rubber). A FINICKY MINORITY of us owners want "clean and new" looking, and that's actually the hardest effect to get. Sometimes you swear you saw it on a dealer's showroom tires, and you ask him what kind of product he uses, but that stuff is not really meant to cling to a tire that's going to be rolling on the street. Sometimes even the professional showroom dressing looks too shiny and artificial to us. Sometimes you bought a set of tires that don't have cool-looking lettering and design on the sidewall, so you don't want to accentuate that--you just want dull-but-very-clean rubber, so that your fantastic aluminum rims will attract all the attention you want without any competition from the sidewall. I specifically want what I see in those elusive promotional videos that the tire manufacturers themselves make: their tires always look leather-glove black, angel-satin rubber with the brand name and size visible from any angle, like a photoshop job. This AERO COSMETICS dressing is the right product for that finicky bunch of drivers (me included). I can't imagine a lot of people stare at a Leer Jet's tires, those folks are wealthy clients going for a flight to some wealthy place, and I figure that's why this product does not knock itself out trying to put a "shine" on the tires. If you apply it exactly as the instructions say (EXACTLY!), you end up with dull-but-very-clean rubber. A+ TWO, it doesn't come out of the bottle or sit on the rubber like a grease or oil. (LOL, I guess when you ban all the "no-no" ingredients from a product, you tend to be left with just odorless, watery juice). AERO COSMETICS sprays out or pours out like milk-ish water. That means NOTHING is going to be splattered on your rims or car paint when your tire starts spinning as you drive. It "soaks" in. I'm not a physics teacher, but I do know that rubber is not wetproof material. It can't absorb water (so, ok, it is waterproof), but it still has tiny pores in it that leach out oils and get penetrated by some non-water chemicals. This product seems to soak-in deeper than just the top surface. So, harder to rinse off, and impossible to "fling off" at 700 rpms. A++ THREE, you can still maximize the reflective sheen you get on the tire, ABOVE what the manufacturers probably intended. So if you are like me, and you want the tire name to stand out brightly on the sidewall, you have the latitude to get it without applying twice, or mixing it with wild trick procedures. I hate gloss or shine, but I want SOME amount of boldness in the printing that's on my sidewalls. I had brand new tires that came wrapped in shipping plastic from the sales warehouse. But I opted to let my technicians mount them on my rims before I do any cleaning/dressing---so automatically the new tires have lube-soap spots and natural oils sitting on them already. I used a light-duty rubber/plastic spray soap and a mild brush agitator to prep the rubber. Not a perfect cleaning, but enough to give the tires that soft tacky rubber drag when you pass a finger over it. I moved each tire to the garage and away from the wind/sun/dust. -Since this stuff is watery, I sprayed it along the sidewall with the tire standing up, but laid the tire down on the floor to keep the excess liquid from dripping away. (As I mentioned above, I regret using their sprayer--it gets the stuff all over the rim and treads, and that's a waste of my cash!). I dabbed any stuff sitting in the rim-guard or rolling way on the treads, but I left it puddled anywhere on the sidewall it wanted to puddle--no excess dabbing or wiping. Regardless of the white puddles, there is this amazing superfine field pattern that the manufacturer embossed along the entire sidewall, that's nearly impossible to see when the rubber is just "matte clean" but is futuristic and impossible to ignore when the tire dressing is just-applied and wet. I was dazzled by the design, and I knew I wouldn't be able to see that once the stuff has dried and turned to matte. But for two minutes, I was in advertising heaven. The instructions say leave it on for "10 minutes or longer". I chose to leave it soaking on OVERNIGHT (14 hours!!!) The next morning, a wiped it gently with a damp cloth like they instruct, expecting to see some excess solution come off on the cloth, and expecting to see that micro-thin design in the tire vanish. There was ZERO excess dressing being removed from the tire! The white puddles had all disappeared overnight (with no waterspotting or puddle ghosts anywhere). The micro-fine pattern the manufacturer put in their tire is still THERE, as dazzling as it looked when the dressing first went on wet. There are design elements all across the tire, from the micro-line pattern to the tiny beads at the lip of th tread, that I tried to capture in the photos. They are not shiny, but it's super reflective, like reflective nylon from a James Bond villain's weaponized exo-suit, very futuristic. And this is only reflective when you're standing right beside the tire. At eight foot distance, all these sophisticated reflections behave calm down, and you see just a brand name embossed on a pure- rubber sidewall like any of the photos already posted here. No gloss, but not at all a standard matte anymore. A+++ For all of you looking for precisely this kind of effect on your rubbers, this aeronautical fluid is your reward. Stop experimenting with car-product makers---those car folks only know how to make adjustable-wet (adjustable-sparkly) dressings. They don't quite know how to provide adjustable-matte like this dressing produces. I doubt that the airplane pilots care about "degree of shine" on their big donut tires. But as a car driver, being able to dial up or down your results on a clean, non-shiny, not-wet, matte tire, is a very rare gift from heaven. Let it soak on a vertical wheel for 10 minutes before you damp-wipe it off, and matte will be a "clean-matte"... lay the tire horizontally and leave this stuff soaking until tomorrow afternoon before you damp-wipe, and matte becomes "otherworldly-reflective matte". This enables you to adjust anywhere in between without ever looking like toy plastic or cake frosting. Will it last on the tire for a month? I don't know yet. I don't expect something this perfect could last very long on a car tire (we have to face it, a car tire is the worst thing that the rubber from a tree would ever want to be made into---the conditions a car tire is subjected to will molest the heck out of any defensive coatings. So even if it turns out that I have to re-apply this stuff every three weeks (hope not), the LOOK of the finished tire makes it worth it.

This stuff is really great. It gives you a dull shine “brand new tire” type look. I apply it with a coarse sponge then wipe it off with a clean rag. The stuff is not greasy at all- doesn’t fling off the tire- doesn’t attract dirt- and last for quite a long time. I highly recommend this over the autozone spray junk any day.

Excellent product !! Love the look

This has worked well on the expected applications, but after trying it on something a little more challenging with high success, I thought I'd write a review because this stuff is almost magic and it's far too rare that I can say I'm even so much as satisfied with a product nowadays! I picked up an '89 Miyata 1000LT with the original radial tires that don't seem like they've had any care other than being out of the sun and having fairly low miles since new. Since radials were a brief period fad, I'd like to preserve them if possible. So, the tires are gumwall. The black portion is in remarkably good shape—no cracking and quite flexible—but the gum part is stiff and dry, almost like you could scratch through with your nail, as one might expect. Wiped on 2 coats of this stuff with a brush and let sit for a few hours to absorb in. As I hoped, they look a lot younger than they did, but what I find really impressive is that the gumwall is much more flexible and resilient, if not as supple as new. I'd say it seems like this knocked at least 2/3 off the age of the tires, which is about as miraculous as I think one could expect.

Most of us agree that we don’t want the wet look into the cheap looking, as well as attracting dust and dirt, as well as not being water resistant. Day 4 for me, simply wiping down the tires with a damp rag every few days. I use the disposable blue shop towels and use one damp sheet for one car. Just flip the shop towel inside-out for the other 2 tires. Video shows my side walls with garage LED lighting on. Just compared to the tread. 😊. Damp rag Kind of cleans and rejuvenates the rubber’s surface to a slightly slick surface with a slight gloss appearance; no wet look(thank you) When I clean the tires, I use a waterless wash & wax. I spray it simply on a blue shop towel and wipe gently on the tire. The cleaning is as if you’re wiping down a dusty rubber mat that has a slick surface. The slight shine or gloss is still there. I am just so glad that finally there is a rubber enhancer that provides a deep black look with a slight gloss appearance that is not sticky or wet. I know most people say it’s a matte finish, but I disagree; my experience has a slight gloss to it, which reflects light somewhat. I agree with the other reviewer‘s in regards to longevity of the product. A slight amount of product on a sponge goes along way. It looks watery at first, but will dry with a little uneven splotches. As soon as you slightly wipe down the tire in both directions. It’s almost as if it is waxing the tire. Again, I am smiling. I bought the gallon due to the third of the price and I know it’s gonna last a lifetime. You won’t be disappointed. I’m sure you can use it as other products but check if it’s safe to do so in regards to aroma. I didn’t read deeply into that portion. I also use the wash and wax spray when the car is slightly dirty; meaning no caked on mud. The tire dressing formula has been revolutionized by my favorite company; Aero Cosmetics. Come on; Boeing certified formula. Need they say more? Yes, yes; like most of you I’ve virtually tried every type of tire dressing out there. This product is the opposite of the the worst products that creat residue buildup around the small 3-D letters on the tire. This product does not do this! I am planning to use it on some older trim of other cars to see the longevity of the matte finish😊 Thank you AeroCosmetics! Now what do I do with my old tire spray?!