What Hot-Tire Pickup Actually Is
A hot tire is soft and slightly sticky. When it cools on a coated floor, plasticizers migrate and the tire adheres to a weak coating film — pulling it up when the car moves.
Why Cheap Kits Fail
Water-based DIY kits are thin, low-solids, and mechanically weak. They rely on paint-like adhesion, not the deep mechanical bond a ground-and-primed slab provides.
Systems That Resist It
- 100% solids epoxy over diamond-ground concrete
- Polyaspartic body or topcoat systems
- Full flake broadcast (mechanical texture defeats the tire contact area)
Preventing Future Failure
Full mechanical prep, a high-solids body coat, and full cure time before returning vehicles to the floor. Skipping any one of those is the usual cause when we're called out to fix a failure.