I gotcha on this one, mine was the samw way, its black but fades out a lot with the sun aways hitting it. I had some Meguiars tire shine in a bottle. its not a gel, but its a prertty thick liquid. It worked GREAT!!! i would imagine any tire shine would do ok on it, but i put a decent coat on mine and it looked really god for about 2 weeks. I used to detail cars professionally fro several dealerships and we used tire shine for many things, but this is definitely your betst route to go.