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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / September 2006Change whitewalls to blackwalls? Paint?
Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat black spray paint work? Bill S. bstev...@rock.com wrote: > Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck > with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Yeah, just get rid of the whitewall tires and don't buy new tires. ROTFLMAO! Not really, that wasn't funny at all. Your best bet is to have the tires remounted with the whitewalls in. I doubt any thing will reliably stick. ayep, reverse the tires.  SignatureKnifeblade_03 http://www.automotiveforums.com > ayep, reverse the tires. Wouldn't recommend that. After a few thousand miles the steel belts in the tires are laying a certain direction. To reverse the tire would cause the belts to shift to the direction and could cause premature separation of outer tread puncture. >> ayep, reverse the tires. > >Wouldn't recommend that. After a few thousand miles the steel belts in the >tires are laying a certain direction. To reverse the tire would cause the >belts to shift to the direction and could cause premature separation of >outer tread puncture. That's why you need to pull them off the rims, and remount them in reverse, so that they are turning in the same direction after you swap them over. As mentioned earlier in this thread. --scott Signature"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." > >> ayep, reverse the tires. > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > -- > "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." On a motorcycle like the OP has???????? LOL! Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) >Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck >with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat >black spray paint work? No, the spraypaint will crack. You _can_ buy flexible rubber-based paint for this sort of thing, but it would just be easier to remount the tires with the white stripe in. --scott Signature"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." There is a product called "Tire Black" which, IIRC, is meant to "paint" tires. bstevens@rock.com wrote in article <1159320864.622246.305980@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>... > Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck > with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat > black spray paint work? > > Bill S. Uh... reversing the tires won't work. These are motorcycle tires. The bike comes standard with whitewalls. Bill S. >Uh... reversing the tires won't work. These are motorcycle tires. The >bike comes standard with whitewalls. No problem, ride rt. 440 in Virginia. You'll have so much mud all over you that nobody will be able to see the sidewalls. --scott Signature"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." > Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck > with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat > black spray paint work? > > Bill S. The tire black and similar products will work - sort of. But they are designed for blackening existing blackwalls, so you may have to lay it on pretty thick. And expect that it will have to be renewed regularly. If it were me, I would live with the whitewalls until they drove me buggy, then buy two new ones. >>Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck >>with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If it were me, I would live with the whitewalls until they drove me > buggy, then buy two new ones. I don't know if you can even get real "tire black" anymore. It was basically carbon black suspended in paint thinner, and it would darn-near PERMANENTLY blacken anything it touched that was the least bit porous. Fingers and concrete driveways included :-p I never painted out a whole whiteWALL with it, but I did black over raised white letters on tires so that you couldn't see them on the inside of the front tires when the wheels were turned. The blacking lasted longer than the tires did! > Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires when you are stuck > with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat > black spray paint work? > > Bill S. > Any good ideas on how to get rid of whitewall tires on my motorcycle when you are stuck > with them, WITHOUT getting new tires? Will just covering them with flat > black spray paint work? |
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