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Back-to-Black Tire Cleaner

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Best Value

$0.42/oz

An alkaline tire cleaner featuring sodium metasilicate as its primary active ingredient, designed for removing brake dust, browning, and old tire dressings from all tire types.

Key Chemistry

pH Level

N/D

Active Mechanism

alkaline saponification

Surfactants

0

Expert Analysis

The product relies on sodium metasilicate as an alkaline builder to break down organic soils, brake dust, and accumulated tire browning through alkaline cleaning action. The formulation claims to use encapsulating cleaning agents that dissolve and lift contaminants, though the specific surfactant system isn't disclosed in the available data.

Key Differentiators

  • Sodium metasilicate-based alkaline cleaning without disclosed traditional surfactants
  • Ready-to-use formulation designed specifically for tire cleaning rather than general wheel cleaning

Potential Concerns

  • Limited ingredient transparency with only 2 disclosed components from SDS data
  • No surfactant system identified in available data, raising questions about cleaning mechanism effectiveness

Ingredients

2 disclosed
2-Butoxyethanol<5
CAS: 111-76-2cleaning agent
Sodium metasilicate<5
CAS: 6834-92-0alkaline builder

Source: sds only

Safety Profile

Signal Word
Warning
Eye Hazard
Causes serious eye irritation
Skin Hazard
Causes skin irritation
Corrosive to Metals
No
Flammable
No