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Hey guys

Just wondering how people go about painting there tyres white, like the letters. I recon it looks pretty cool

Where do you get a paint pen or what ever? and do you use high pressure spray to clean tyres before or something?

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I reckon probably spray it like you said, then go at it with a brush, using high temp white paint.

Or if the words on your tyres stick out and you're lazy you can probably spray a cardboard with the paint, then press the cardboard onto the letters. Then perhaps touch it up later with a brush again.

Disclaimer: Haven't tried it or seen it done before, just an idea. It will possibly also flake off after a short period :P

Edited by Yawn

i think they are made like that...

here is a thing. i seen on a summernats dvd people with coloured tyres, i mean not the writing but the whole thing, like red and yellow etc. when they do burnouts the smoke is the colour of the tyres... looks cool

gotta think yellow tyres make yellow smoke... and red tyres make red smoke... but black tyres make white smoke not black.

anyways i think white writing on the tyres suit muscle cars like mustangs, corvettes and chargers etc.

I think there needs to be something you want people to see..

I.e Stretched tyres.. So a 195 on a 8inch wheel.. HOT!

or brand.. or something.. I dont mind it.. something a bit different.. Me like!

the pirelli p-zero's we use on the track car has white lettering factory. its actually done when the rubber is cast (white layer first, then black layer over that, with the lettering exposed)... so even if you were to scrape the letters or put a nick in it, it'd still be white.

you can buy rubber paint (paint formulated specifically to stretch and adhere to rubber compounds) in white, red etc... you'd have to use that to fill in the letters, but I agree with GTS4WD, it'd have to be something that makes you go "woah" like stretched 195's on a 9" wide wheel, or P-Zero's... or something with such a huge tread that you want people to know what it is... we're talking 315mm minimum.

no one will think a 225/35/18 is impressive.

gotta think yellow tyres make yellow smoke... and red tyres make red smoke... but black tyres make white smoke not black.

Dude, coloured tyres do not make coloured smoke, they still make white smoke! The tyres that have been mentioned that make colour smoke have some additional product/substance in them to produce coloured smoke, and are mega expensive, something along the lines of $1000 per tyre!

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