I‘ve always spray on a bit of “Windex” when mounting tires, but decided to buy some of the real stuff. Unfortunately it comes in huge quantities and is expensive. Stumbled on this alternative and will be trying it out. What do you use?
“Anyway, for some reason I figured I would share it here in case anyone decides they need some. The old school backyard was to simply use some dish soap and water. This is fine I guess, but water has its downsides with wheel coroasion etc. I took that idea and slightly changed it.
Grab a jug of your favorite antifreeze/coolant and simply mix a little up with some car was soap ( or dish soap)
My thoughts are that it makes a slick enough formula to easily allow your bead to slide on to your wheel, plus we know that antifreeze is safe for your rubber ( think hoses ) and you get the nice benefit of corossiob resistance thanks to all the nice additives your antifreeze. The formula is not so slick that you have to worry about tire spinning, and dries realativly fast.
To sum it up:
Cheap and readily available
Alloy and steel wheel corossion protection ( Remember I live in Michigan)
Makes for easily mounting
Dries quickly”
