# Brake fluid on tires? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** tires\ **Created:** [February 7, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181 "2009-02-07T20:23:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![irlandes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@irlandes](https://community.cartalk.com/u/irlandes)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/21 "2009-02-12T21:59:42Z")
Good one, please. Funny. ---
**Author:** ![circuitsmith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/circuitsmith/32/40376_2.png) [@circuitsmith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/circuitsmith)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/22 "2009-02-12T22:18:58Z")
Thank you Red Green. ---
**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/51bf81/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/23 "2009-02-13T02:18:57Z")
I have watched the Red Green Show. You can tell. ---
**Author:** ![redtag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@redtag](https://community.cartalk.com/u/redtag)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/24 "2009-02-14T06:28:52Z")
In the very OLD DAYS, when your windshield wipers would crack and chatter and jumpt and smear etc. Dad would give them a couple of wipes with Brake fluid…the old glycol formulae, not synthetic or silicon based. let them sit a few minutes and wipe them off real good and they were good to go (for a while anyway), Dad is gone now and I am in my 60’s, but it did (and still will) work for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Paul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/67e7ee/32.png) [@Rick\_Paul](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rick_Paul)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/25 "2019-10-11T20:57:50Z")
I worked at a car dealer when I was in high school. I detailed cars. They always used brake fluid. I’ve been using it ever since (I’m 58). Lasts a bit longer than tire dressing. Doesn’t hurt the tires. ---
**Author:** ![PvtPublic](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/pvtpublic/32/13089_2.png) [@PvtPublic](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PvtPublic)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 10:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/27 "2019-12-12T10:40:45Z")
Well then, get new tires. Thanks for the info,I think 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/28 "2019-12-12T18:39:52Z")
I’ve seen quite a few detailers use brake fluid to shine tires and some were old and had been in business for many years. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/29 "2019-12-12T18:56:30Z")
I’ve accidentally got brake fluid on my tires dozens of times over the years doing brake job…if brake fluid could cause a problem with the tires, then it surely would have happened to me. ---
**Author:** ![Scrapyard-John](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Scrapyard-John](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Scrapyard-John)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/30 "2019-12-13T04:13:20Z")
Well this is an old post. But brake fluid on tires is probably safer than Armor All in your master cylinder. ---
**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/32 "2020-02-11T14:10:52Z")
Keep in mind that tires are generally attached to wheels, and modern wheels are often painted, or at least clear-coated. So if you dress your tires with brake fluid, you’re gonna get some on paint, and we all know what brake fluid does to paint. ---
**Author:** ![oldtimer-11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e79b87/32.png) [@oldtimer-11](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldtimer-11)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181/33 "2020-02-11T16:14:43Z")
Brake fluid softens and swells rubber, In the 50s when I worked at gas stations, a grease job on a car with leaf springs included spraying brake fluid on the rubber separators between the leaves. As far as natural rubber being black, I could not tell you how many loads of natural rubber I delivered to Dunlop tire and none of it was black. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brake-fluid-on-tires/26181.md?page=1)