How to Remove Black Tar, Gravel, Asphalt and Road Oil from Car Tires?

Have you faced shaking steering and front tire vibration after you are driving on a newly resurfaced or paved road? Then there should be a need to remove road tar from tires.

Learn how to remove black tar, gravel, asphalt and road oil from car tires tread. In this we will use wd40 and linseed oil (homemade remover).

How to remove tar from tires?

What is Tar?

Before going to know how to remove tar from tires we have to know about the tar. Tar is basically a hydrocarbon and a viscous substance. When bituminous rocks, coal and wood go through a process called destructive distillation then a black colored material is left behind. This Black colored material is known as tar.

This process is called destructive distillation because these bituminous rocks, coal and wood are heated extensively, but in the absence of air.

Best way to remove tar from car tires

Step 1: Using plastic tools to remove road tar from car tires

If a solid black piece of tar sticks to your automobile tire, then you can use a plastic tool to remove that. You can easily get rid of tar by just scrubbing it with the plastic tool or plastic knife.

Precaution:

You should never ever use steel or iron tools for that purpose. If you use that it will puncture your car tire or it may damage it permanently. Putting adequate force on tire with steel knife can slash your car tire completely

Step 2: Using scrubbing brush to remove tar from tires tread

If the first step does not clean your car tires properly then you can use a scrubbing brush also for that purpose. You should need a scrubbing brush with mild detergent for cleaning of your tires tread completely.

Now put mild detergent on your tire and then scrub it with the brush firmly. This will clean your tire tread immediately. You can also add elbow grease with mild detergent in this step.

Precaution:

Don’t use strong chemicals on your car tires because it will damage the rubber skin of tires.

Step 3: Using WD40 to remove tar from tires tread

In this step you need to buy WD40. You can easily get it from any automobile store. Apply WD40 on your car tires and leave it for 30 minutes. After that take a plastic knife and with that remove the remaining road tar from your tires and tires tread.

You can also use RP-7 in the replacement of WD40. it’s up to your ease. We are using WD40 in this step because it easily dissolves tar.

What should I do, if I do not get rid of tar completely?

Tar removing is not an easy task as you think if a lot of tar is clinging to your tire. When you are removing tar, you need patience in that. If your tire does not get rid of tar completely after applying the third method then you don’t need to worry about that. You just need to apply the third step 2 to 3 times and you can get rid of this easily.

Repeat the third step until you scrub all of the tar from your tire completely

Is there any homemade tar remover method?

Yes, why not. If you cannot afford WD40 then you can use linseed oil in the replacement of that. Put linseed oil on your affected car tire and leave it for half an hour. After that use your plastic knife to remove the road tar completely.

Where can your car tire get sticky black tar?

Tar is basically used in the construction of roads and buildings. Your automobile tires can easily get tar when you drive the car on it. Especially when you are driving a car on the construction road your car tires can easily mess up with the road tar.

These are most common places of clinging tar on tires:

• Newly surfaced road
• Newly paved road

Will these methods remove aggregate, asphalt, road oil, debris and gravel also?

Absolutely as soon as you get rid of the black road tar from your tire these all will get off. Your main focus is just to get rid of the road tar.

Can you drive with tar on your tires?

My answer to this is absolutely no. When drive onto the construction work or road then your tire not only catch tar, but also catch gravel, asphalt, debris, road oil and other construction aggregate

material. This will cause your car steering to shake and sometimes you can also get into a road accident.

Can tar on the tires damage the tire

Not only can this black tar damage your tire but also you can get a heavy fine of messing with the construction area. Your tire with tar can also damage the cleaned road also, so if you did it mistakenly then be ready for a heavy fine. And definitely it will scratch the floor of your garage if you drive towards home.

Tar on tires causing shaking

Let me tell you my experience when I was driving on the highway in Jacksonville. I had passed by some construction work after that when I sped up my car to 70 mile per hour my steering wheel was shaking and the car started to vibrate. At this moment it immediately slowed down my car and started to inspect the car myself as I myself am an automotive engineer.

At this moment I did not find anything that made me suspicious about that.

First, I think that the vibration came from my car engine due to speeding. In order to confirm my doubt to the car engine I speed up the car and then eventually make my car neutral by removing all the gear. Making my car to neutral did cause any impact on the steering shaking and the car vibrating.

After that I examined my car all again. Then I found that the vibration was coming from the front of my car rather than from the engine. Mostly vibration in the front of the car comes due the unbalancing of tires.

Instead of traveling more I drove my car to my workshop. I found that a large piece of road tar was sticking on the left tire of my car. Which was unbalancing my front tire and causing vibration. I immediately removed that.