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Painting letters white on tyres

  • 12-08-2014 1:04pm
    #1
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭


    The other day I decided that the car caould use a bit of racing flair, so I decided to paint the lettering on the tyres white, so I picked up a oil paint pen and set to work. As well as looking like a five year old did it, brown started bleeding through the paint. I tried it over a few days with multiple coats but no luck, still brown. Picked up acrylic paint, but I had the same problem.

    Googling this isn't really giving me any results, has anyone had any success with painting the lettering?


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  • #2
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    Would the "oil" one not eat the rubber?

    Get a tyre/tire paint pen. Loads around.



  • #3
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    Use the stuff they use to paint "feck off crows" on silage bales.


  • #4
    Justjens
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Justjens


    corktina wrote: »
    Use the stuff they use to paint "feck off crows" on silage bales.

    White paint!! ;)


  • #5
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    I got one of those pens but there is a lot of brown bleeding through, I wasn't very careful and I didn't clean the tyre. So I'll start again and give the tyre a good clean and work from there.


  • #6
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    mustang68 wrote: »
    I wasn't very careful and I didn't clean the tyre.

    Lazy! Lazy! Lazy! :D

    Make sure it's clean enough to eat your dinner off and dry as a bone.


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  • #7
    sblythe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭sblythe


    I've been pondering doing the very same with my Allegro. I have been thinking of giving it a retro racer look (not the easiest job with a yellow Allegro, I know...) but I think slightly beefier tyres and white lettering might look good.


  • #8
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Let me know how you get on. At the start of a restoration at the minute of a retro racer, and have been thinking about doing something similar!


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