White Letter life

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Brad

Guest

• Jul 15, 2003

• #1

Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of the
tires? BFG AT's.

Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.

Thanks

 

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Lon Stowell

Guest

• Jul 15, 2003

• #2

Brad wrote:

> Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of the
> tires? BFG AT's.
>
> Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.

JC Whitney used to carry these paint based tire crayons that
worked pretty good after cleaning. Back when I had enough
free time and a sufficiently pliable lower back, I just
cleaned the lettering with bleach and a stiff brush, rinsed,
and touched up with the rubber paint crayon.

 

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Burnie M

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #3

Turn the tire the other way round so it is black ?


On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:44:31 -0230, "Brad"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of the
>tires? BFG AT's.
>
>Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.
>
>Thanks
>

 

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Walker

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #4

Be careful sliding off of rocks, plowing through thick underbrush or
churning up a gravel road if you want to keep the tires looking nice. I
guess you may have to decide if they are for 'show' or for 'go'.

Don't discount using a second set of wheels and tires for off roading.

Bob Walker


"Brad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of
the
> tires? BFG AT's.
>
> Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.
>
> Thanks
>
>

 

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Brad

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #5

"Burnie M" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Turn the tire the other way round so it is black ?
>

I want to see the white letters...its 1/2 the reason I like those tires.
haha

 

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Brad

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #6

Sliding/scruffing off of rocks is my biggest worry...but I can't let that
stop me from exploring parts unknown.

Thanks for the tips all.

"Walker" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:xI9Ra.7961$Bp2.7683@fed1read07...
> Be careful sliding off of rocks, plowing through thick underbrush or
> churning up a gravel road if you want to keep the tires looking nice. I
> guess you may have to decide if they are for 'show' or for 'go'.
>
> Don't discount using a second set of wheels and tires for off roading.
>
> Bob Walker
>
>
> "Brad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of
> the
> > tires? BFG AT's.
> >
> > Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>

 

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Axel Hammer

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #7

Brad schrieb:

> Sliding/scruffing off of rocks is my biggest worry...but I can't let that
> stop me from exploring parts unknown.
>
> Thanks for the tips all.

What a mess!
Try putting duct tape on the letters before doing mud digging or crawling.
Sure looks nice for the letters thereafter to be the only clean thing.

Axel

 

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Lon Stowell

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #8

Axel Hammer wrote:

> Brad schrieb:
>
>> Sliding/scruffing off of rocks is my biggest worry...but I can't let that
>> stop me from exploring parts unknown.
>>
>> Thanks for the tips all.
>
> What a mess!
> Try putting duct tape on the letters before doing mud digging or crawling.
> Sure looks nice for the letters thereafter to be the only clean thing.
>
> Axel
>
Yeah, but then you need a bottle of GooGone to get the
duct tape stickum off the tires.

 

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Axel Hammer

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #9

Lon Stowell schrieb:

> Yeah, but then you need a bottle of GooGone to get the
> duct tape stickum off the tires.

Man, do you really think somewhone keen to white letters on tires ever will put
the slightest dirt on his cafe-racer?
Sorry to kill my gag, but.....


Axel

 

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Sean Hamlett

Guest

• Jul 16, 2003

• #10

HEY WAZE UP I THINK 4BY4S ARE PRETTY COOL MY STEP DAD HAD A FORD BRONCO
TWO BUT IT BLEW UP TWO MONTH AGO WELL BY

 

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Trentus

Guest

• Jul 21, 2003

• #11

"Brad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Any recommendations on keeping one's white letters white for the life of
the
> tires? BFG AT's.
>
> Currently use Spray 9 and a plastic bristle brush. Seems to do the job.
>
> Thanks

I was quite disappointed to go looking to buy some Desert Duelers, and
finding the ones for my size wheel don't come with white lettering, so I
simply bought a tyre white pen, which is a pen a bit like the Uni Liquid
Paper type pen, but it has tyre white in it.
I then tediously went round and painted the entire set of tyres.
It looks heaps better, and I simply use the pen to touch up damage done out
bush (which is over due after a major trip last week)

Trentus

 

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Chris Phillipo

Guest

• Jul 23, 2003

• #12

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Sliding/scruffing off of rocks is my biggest worry...but I can't let that
> stop me from exploring parts unknown.
>
> Thanks for the tips all.
>

I find my outline white letters on my Bridgestones lasted a lot longer
than the BFG solid white letters did. You might want to think about
that the next time you have to buy tires.

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