Painting letters white on tyres

mustang68 · 12-08-2014 02:04PM #1

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?

macplaxton · 12-08-2014 05:45PM

Would the "oil" one not eat the rubber?

Get a tyre/tire paint pen. Loads around.

corktina · 13-08-2014 09:34AM

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

Justjens · 13-08-2014 12:54PM

corktina wrote: »

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

White paint!!

mustang68 · 14-08-2014 09:51AM

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.

macplaxton · 14-08-2014 04:13PM

mustang68 wrote: »

I wasn't very careful and I didn't clean the tyre.

Lazy! Lazy! Lazy!

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

sblythe · 14-08-2014 07:06PM

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.

antodeco · 14-08-2014 11:03PM

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!

Painting letters white on tyres

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