In Bay Simoniz Tire Shine

I am considering purchasing a tire shine. In visiting CW with a tire shine. I see hit and miss with the quality. Is this common or just a maintance issue. Does the tire shine pay for itself. Any recommendations

I've had my tire shiner for 5 years and it covers very well. There is/are maintenace tricks... but very little. I use the "H" style pad. I also use Pad perfect. Every other month or so I remove the pads and flush out the spray nozzels and check the manifold for leaks. I get very good coverage.

I also like the motor ciy tire shiner.

I am a distributor for Bioshine Tire shine. We are in the process of changing the viscosity of Bioshine to be the same as pad perfect. We feel the shine is the same as or better than Pad Perfect. Also, no silicone, reclaim friendly, and no slippery floors.

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www.crowncarwashinc.com

Joe

If you mean by "in bay", an IBA?, I would say customer expectations are not that high in that format as compared to a conveyor. I was the first to have a Simonize tire shiner in a IBA and had almost no complaints about it. My driveway was black and slippery, probably an indication I was using too much product. That IBA would wash a duallie and the Simonize was not too bad even in that situation...had a few climb and go over the unit.
That machine works best with lower profile tires, so big truck tires did not receive as good a coverage. If you raise the unit up to do a better job, then it's hitting low ground effects and running boards. And then theres the problem of different types of rubber and different ages, which creates more in-consistency. Another problem with IBA is low usage. Most tire shinning equipment does a better and more economical job the more it is used. IE: 20 usages an hour instead of 20 usages a 24 hours.

I would think that the biggest draw back to adding a tire shine machine to an IBA would be the fact that it is hard for a IBA (no matter who the manufacture) to get the tires clean enough for the product to work properly. Most in bay automatics have a wheel clean option, but it doesn’t take the operator long to figure out that in order to use a tire and wheel cleaner that really truly works, you have to spend some money, and use a lot of product (12:1, 15:1). So most are just taken off the programming or the foot valve is just dropped in a bucket of water. The only tire shine machine that I have seen in an IBA is in a wash owned by Jim Coleman. I don’t think it will really ever catch on for the in bay automatics, but if you choose to invest in one I would also invest in making sure your tires are clean first.