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Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: simondarby on June 25, 2007, 16:40:06

I have just bought a set of Goodyear ATR tyres and they have been fitted with the white lettering showing.  I don't mind this, but as the tyres are new, they have a funny blue coating over the white lettering, I presume to protect the lettering after manufacture.

Anyone know how to clean the blue off?  3 of the tyres still have it on and it looks a bit daft.... (I think so anyway)

Cheers,

Si

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: wheeler on June 25, 2007, 16:47:44

SOAPY WATER OR JET WASH

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Edge on June 25, 2007, 16:51:50

"Hot" soapy water. Its a waxy stuff :wink:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: waterrover on June 25, 2007, 17:03:54

i found MUD  was the best :)

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Paul on June 25, 2007, 17:30:16

A Brillo pad works wonders  :wink:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: strapping young lad on June 25, 2007, 17:40:56

leave it on, the white will stay on for longer and the blue will eventually come off on its own

plus it makes it look proper brand new if you see blue ;)

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Evilgoat on June 25, 2007, 17:52:33

not long after the blue goes, the white will too :)

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: simondarby on June 25, 2007, 18:09:06

Thanks guys.

Si

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: muddyjames on June 25, 2007, 18:17:29

Quote from: "Evilgoat"

not long after the blue goes, the white will too :)

or some scoundrel pinches them as they are new!!! I have the white lettering on the inside to make them look older and less new so hopefully less pinchable.

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: clbarclay on June 25, 2007, 19:55:35

My couson rekoned there was one near him that had the letters painted all the coulors of the rainbow, with each letter a different colour to the adjacent letters :roll:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Popoff on June 25, 2007, 21:21:27

Used brake cleaner on mine, works better and easer than soapy water  :lol:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: richo on June 26, 2007, 20:36:45

Ive got some copper tyres with the white letters and they have been on for about 5 months now and the letters are still in good nick.I washed mine with saopy water as per tyre fitter.
Brake fuild is a bit extrme i think ,hope you got it off the tyres before you drove away .Have you seen what that suff do'es to paint?

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Mudlark on June 26, 2007, 21:31:11

Quote from: "richo"

Brake fuild is a bit extrme i think ,hope you got it off the tyres before you drove away .Have you seen what that suff do'es to paint?

If it does to rubber what it does to paint you wouldn't have any brakes :wink:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Jake on June 27, 2007, 08:51:54

Quote from: "Evilgoat"

not long after the blue goes, the white will too :)

My Goodyears white letters lasted for 3 years.  8)
I find using traffic film remover and a hot jet wash blast the blue away in 5 seconds a tyre  :P
 :D

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: simondarby on June 27, 2007, 08:59:29

Hot soapy water and a quick scrub did the trick beautifully...

Cheers

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: waveydavey on June 27, 2007, 17:38:36

Quote from: richo

Ive got some copper tyres

Quote

Copper? Hard wearing but they can't give very good grip! Good if you get hit by lightning though.

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: Popoff on June 28, 2007, 00:21:52

Quote from: "Popoff"

Used brake cleaner on mine, works better and easer than soapy water  :lol:

please read the post again, I used brake CLEANER not brake fluid :!:

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: chris.hunt22 on June 28, 2007, 18:48:11

My BFG muds came with the blue stuff on, white spirit and a rag got it off, the white is actually white tyre on them so they NEVER come off, a quick scrub with a scouring pad and white sprirt brings em up like new every time!!

Title: White lettering on tyres
Post by: V8MoneyPit on June 29, 2007, 10:49:10

I just left the blue and it came of in about a week of rain anyway.

One strange thing is that the BFG MT's on the 110 have retained the white, but the BFG AT's on the Freelander have lost the white after only a few months.

Not that is bothers me..... most of the time they are mud brown anyway  :lol: