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Hello guys just need pointing in the right direction and it's probably been asked before in here, but what's the easiest and best way to get white wall wheels, my current tyres are new so don't want to go buy a set if white wall tyres, I have seen white wall inserts but that would mean getting the tyres off the rim and refitting and balancing them again, and I have also seen paints so just wondering what's the best way to go about this itch I have about white wall wheels and has anyone used a method they can recommend all help is greatly appricated
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I used a bloke called “Mr Whitewalls” based in the midlands , seemed a nice bloke and did a cracking job :-)  |
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The trims seems good but does the tyre seal well after it's been inserted and does the bead need to be be broken to fit them, anyone had any luck with tyre paint or is it just a messy job
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ChasR
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The only issue I see with the flaps is that they don't always stay square on the tyre and it then becomes obvious that they are loose flaps on wheels, even from a 10 foot glance. If it were me in your position, I'd get Mr. Whitewalls etc. to put a whitewall onto your existing tyre. From memory, these peeps smooth off the sidewall of the tyre and then put in the whitewall into the tyre. It should be cheaper than new tyres too. On a 185R14 or equivalent, I believe dougal007 aka Longstone sells the tyres for around £95 a corner. |
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Dez
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Any method that involves adding a whitewall to a tyre that wasn’t manufactured as a whitewall is rubbish and doesn’t work or last very long.
Any form of paint rubs/scuffs/washes off easily. Flaps destroy your tyre walls and explode if you go too fast or even look at a kerb.
Proper Whitewall tyres are the only way to do it and it last/not be high maintainence.
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keyring
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When I had my old MK2, I used to use Halfords wheel paint rattle cans on the tyres, and just top it up every few months and it seemed to last/hold up well   |
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ChasR
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Any method that involves adding a whitewall to a tyre that wasn’t manufactured as a whitewall is rubbish and doesn’t work or last very long. Any form of paint rubs/scuffs/washes off easily. Flaps destroy your tyre walls and explode if you go too fast or even look at a kerb. Proper Whitewall tyres are the only way to do it and it last/not be high maintainence. While I agree, surely the adhesion plays a part in that as well. One does wonder how the whitewalls are applied at the factory. |
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Dez
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Any method that involves adding a whitewall to a tyre that wasn’t manufactured as a whitewall is rubbish and doesn’t work or last very long. Any form of paint rubs/scuffs/washes off easily. Flaps destroy your tyre walls and explode if you go too fast or even look at a kerb. Proper Whitewall tyres are the only way to do it and it last/not be high maintainence. While I agree, surely the adhesion plays a part in that as well. One does wonder how the whitewalls are applied at the factory. It’s a solid layer of white rubber laminated into the tyre at production. There’s a coker video of them doing it online somewhere. Hence you can drag em down a kerb and it don’t come offf. Simple fact with adhesion is nothing really sticks to rubber very well, even ‘rubberised’ paint. |
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It’s a solid layer of white rubber laminated into the tyre at production. You can see this with any white lettered tyre, if it's been heavily kerbed the black layer over the top comes off. It's a cheap option to take a lettered tyre and cut it back to white. The flaps apparently last longer using rubber grease between them and the tyre, but that's only from online reading |
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Rich
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A company local to me sells a product called 'PIO' (Plastics in one) and they have trail painted tyres on offroad-used landrovers with excellent results even 18 months later, maybe worth investigating. www.buzzweld.co.uk/productlist.html#GPIO |
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I see so buying inserts won't be a good move, the pio paint seems a good idea
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