Heres my experimental white wall. Just roughed it up with a da and wiped it down with thinner a couple times and sprayed some thin coats of satin white fusion on it. Didnt spend much time on masking since its just a test.
You can say that again. Looks like you can do an experiment on how it holds up on tread and aluminum wheels as well.
So far it already fell off the back! Dammit! Keep us posted, there has to be a way to do this. Fusion I presume?
I'm sure they did that "back in the day" I'll be trying it on my rear tires myself. I was going to look into that white wall paint the guy in Netherlands is selling, it's tested out pretty well (2 seasons?) but will be interested to see how the Fusion holds up. Keep us posted. Flatman
the paint was satin fusion. here it is after about 20 miles the visible cracks were in the tire already however there are hundreds of hairline cracks in the paint in a circle around the bead and overlappin x-pattern cracks allong the sidewall but they cant be seen until you are right against the tire. so now i am going to set it out in the sun for a few days to see how it puts up with it. and theres water coiming out of the bead putting nice black stains on it
You could probably make this work if you mixed the paint and sprayed it with a gun and put a bunch of the flex additive you'd use on late-model car bumpers in it. Otherwise, if the paint isn't particularly flexible, it's going to crack as you drive and the tire flexes.
I was in a trailer supply place the other day, and they sell white rubber roof coating. I think it might have potential for this, since it's very flexible.
well the cracks dont really bother me because they are so small you dont really notice them but i guess once it starts to crack it will probally work its way off. i guess ill leave it out and see how this stuff weathers. That trailer paint sounds promising to so ill see how this holds up and pick up some roof paint and see how it compares
Don't you think you might have gone a tad bit tooo wide???? SHEESH!!! It'll be interesting to see how that Fusion holds up.
I've tried several different techniques of making wide white wall tires. Basically paint, and all the other paint-type shit just doesnt work. It doesn't last, it cracks, fades, peels, and generally looks like shit anyway. I was broke, I wanted wide whitewalls, my car had raised thing whitewalls, I shaved them into wides. Now I just save up the dough and get the real deal, even though it hurts, it costs money to be cool. Best bet to have wide white walls is to buy real ones, port-a-walls, or buy some thin raised whitewall tires and shave them into wide whitewalls. If you can't afford to do one of those, then you probably can't afford to customize your car in the first place....so what's the point of even trying? The end result in cheap customizing is just as bad, or even worse than seeing a fart-canned Jap car 4-door with multi colored body parts and racing stickers all over it. My point? Save yourself the trouble...do it right. Good luck.
Pass on the portawalls. They look good between 35-45 mph. Anything after that, it sounds like a bat is chasing you.
I went thru this last year & caused alot of trouble on here for some reason!!lol I did what you did on my T & it lasted about 800-900 FEET!! it flaked off, peeled of & in general Sucked!!! I ended up grinding in WW's which looked great & worked out great, A little messy but not bad! Heres a picture of my car with the ground WW's JimV PS.. weird part is the sprayed on Krylon flaked up but the stuff that didn't flake off was a bitch to get off the tire!! Luckily the white letters where on the back of the rear tires so i flipped them to the raised letter side then painted over the krylon that was left on the tire with Black out
Back in the day we used to use a white rubber based paint. It was a bitch to get smooth and it quickly turned yellow with the sun. How is yours doing since the sun test?
I've done the opposite. Growing up, mom parked by feel and turned her white letter tires into whitewalls. Dad being a cheap old farmer found a can of actual black tire paint. Even said so on the can. Seemed a lot like thinned down roofing tar. Having used that crap for a couple seasons, I'd never dream of trying to paint a whitewall over a black tire. Never gonna be more than a "hundred footer", and at 25 feet people will make fun of your ride assuming that kind of craftsmanship runs deep. 60GMCguy, I admire the spirit of learning. But not taping off that rim and doing a better job is just poor form. Even a junk rim. Expect a huge ration of shit when posting stuff that may lead others to believe you're a hack. You really wanna test that paint, put whitewall cleaner and a scrub brush on it. Cause even if it stands up to road use, it'll look like shit after a thousand miles without cleaning. good luck.
Im a hack for not masking off an old wheel from an isuzu? ok i guess i cant argue that but the focus here is on the tire. Im going to leav eit in the sun for a couple days and do some scrubbing like shifty says before i actually do this to a "real" tire.
GMCguy, I only implied you were a hack, never came right out and said it. The problem with painting that rim is it guarantees in the next 6 months you'll run into somebody with an isuzu who'd give ya $40 for it "if it weren't painted". It only happened to me 40 or 50 times before figuring out that ruining parts out of sheer laziness was not the best plan. Hopefully you're a quicker study than I. Your truck is too cool for painted whitewalls.
Thank you shifty, im just figured id try some different techniques to see how this stuff actually works instead of reading about it here. But until real whitewalls become cheaper i doubt that i will have real ones on my truck soon,theres just too many other improvements that i can spend that kinda money on. Right now i have this tire off and have the rally wheels back. so i guess once i get home from work later in the evening ill subject this paint to some more abuse and see what it can or cant stick to and for how long
Some people love wide whites. And others like white wheels! There is such a thing as too much of a good thing? white car, wide whites?
well after 24+hours of painting and sitting in the sun the paint is still on the tire and is white in color. So i hit it with a scrub brush and soapy water to see how it would hold and its still there. So what would you guys like to see what it can hold up to?
ok now how you guys need a lesson... almost all tires were white all white tread area too....when rubber tires were 1st made and black tires was a proccess to change them so they would last longer...
EXACTLY ..... though porta walls suck ...... just save up and but the real deal ..... nicely said tex.hardcore ....
that reminds me of this truck parked by my house with one yellow tire and one red one......i dont know why...it's kinda funny lookin,actually....i might take a pic of it and put it on here for laughs creepy
I'm thinking off doing the same thing to my rat rod using the Krylon spray paint to get the white walls and I don't care about the small cracks its a true rat rod, If you went out and spent a lot of money on true white walls it wouldn't be a rat rod and I also don't care what other people think I was just searching to see what would work the best. Good job Thanks
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