Driveway with "White" Blotches Pictures

gawashman

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Ok...I went and took some pictures of the "white" blotches from using tires cleaners and dressing. Now to figure how best to make my customer happy for some repeat business.
 

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Buy Lots of tife foam cleanner and do the whole drive way:D
 
HD-80 sold by www.woodrich-brand.com

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What you are seeing in the photos is actually clean, dry concrete. The silicone in the tire dressing penetrates any dirt on the surface and waterproofs the concrete. After you clean the drive, all of the concrete is clean - so when the driveway dries, the "stains" will disappear. I have never seen or heard of a solution, though using a silicone-based sealer might do the trick. Or maybe 20 cans of tire shine!
 
If it was a tire rim cleaner it was probably an acid product for aluminum rims. It looks to me like it was brightened. I would suggest cleaning the whole area and apply a strong Oxalic acid like rust away and brighten the whole drive to even it out.
 
If it was a tire rim cleaner it was probably an acid product for aluminum rims. It looks to me like it was brightened. I would suggest cleaning the whole area and apply a strong Oxalic acid like rust away and brighten the whole drive to even it out.

This makes alot more sense to me. I've done many drives with tire shine marks (silicone) on the concrete and they never looked like that.
 
they only look like that when wet. Got it on my drive way too.
 
A good alkaline based stripper of cleaner should work on the silicone but it may take a bit, but brightening the whole thing when done will help hide it all a bit better.
 
It where the "wet" look tire treatment was oversprayed. Most are a silicone based product. Essentially that part of concrete has been sealed which is why the wet part is darker. We have had good luck simply cleaning and then sealing the rest of driveway with a silicone based sealer.
 
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