Painting tyre writing

[Guy]

if you have decent tyers and want to shout about it you can do a horny and colour the letters in, it can look good.

if you have sh!t tyers you can still clolout the letterrs in but it will look so gay you may as well do it with pink paint and paint your wheels purpel

looked fab but didn't last very long iirc


IMG_9102 by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

[Khare]

if you have decent tyers and want to shout about it you can do a horny and colour the letters in, it can look good.

if you have sh!t tyers you can still clolout the letterrs in but it will look so gay you may as well do it with pink paint and paint your wheels purpel

looked fab but didn't last very long iirc


IMG_9102 by Nicholas R Horne, on Flickr

That looks nice, I was thinking white paint. I've got Toyo proxes T1Rs so I think they'd look ok.

[Khare]

Just remembered 

I've got uniroyal rainsport 2's at the back, DOH! 

[Gecky]

Surely it doesn't matter what tyres you have you could paint anything on them and that would be all anyone would see (I'm off to tippex myself a set of toyo's )

[nige_s]

Doesn't work for me, just a bit too retro race on the wrong car.  Looks better on a fully race prep'd car with race decals, etc.  But on a standard looking mk3 it just looks out of place.  Was also the rage in the 70's I remember my cousin white lettering the tyres on his Triumph Dolomite.

BTW You can buy specific tyre paint just for the job.

[Horney]

Yeah don't use white Hammerite. I did and it went brown.

Search google for "Tyre Pen" they work best and last quite a while but you will need to touch them up (ooh eerr) as the flex causes the paint to crack and fall off over time.

Nick

[jmsheahan]

Personally reckon it looks ok on a track car (horney's being a great example) but would look sh!te on a road car. Asking for unwanted attention in my opinion.

Frost restoration sell the pens and paint though

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=9488&frostProductName=White%20Tyre%20Pen.