Anyone have an easy solution for removing excess rubber that R compounds pick up? I am thinking I need to do it when the tires are still hot, at the end of the day, versus fighting with it in my garage a week later. I actually considered taking a large cheese grater to them, but didn't want to scrape into the tire underneath. Scraping it off with a paint scraper edge is slow and painful, and I can't get it all.

 

I have tried many different methods over the past year. The heat gun and paint scraper is the best so far. It is the only way to get all the crap off the surface of the tire. However, if you have an event in warm temperatures on sealed asphalt, that will clean off you tires really well.

-Marc

 

Yeah driving it off works, but my first couple of autocross runs suffer with this method. The front tires on my STI get cleaned off fairly quickly, but the rears do not. I will give the heat gun a try. Does this negatively affect the tires compound at all?