kmb1966 wrote:
Was telling a friend of mine that has been in the tire business for about 30 years that I had to clean my tires with a pressure washer and he mentioned that it wasn't a good idea to use a pressure washer on tires, and then I came home and GOOGLED IT and found several articles about the possibility of damage to tires by pressure washing your tires. So then I became concerned.
Well checked it out and I will go back to what I said before
If you hold the wand very close to the tire. And the articles talked about heavy duty COMMERCIAL pressure washers.. if you hold the wand very close.. YES you can damage the tire.
Back off a foot or two as you normally would when washing a car and you will not. That's the thing they over look
THe high frequency pulsations from as much as 1500 PSI to Zero.....
Well that's 1500 PSI at the nozzle. 2 feet away it is more like 15 psi.
NOTE get your hand too close to the nozzle and you will no longer have skin on your bones.. It will slice concrete.. In fact I've done that. But as the distance increases the pressure decreases..
