White wall grinding?

Does anyone know of a tire shop near northern california that still does white wall grinding?

 

You should try it yourself on some cheap one from the junk yard. Search you tube for making your own white walls.

 

Yes, there is a shop in Sacto that does it... will have to find the name... I just had some tires for the Billetproof Mobile done there, nice work and cheap.

will have to dig up the name....

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Hooten Tires in Sacramento did the white wall grinding, $15/tire and they did a great job.

 

Did mine last month. Took about 45 minute per tire.

 

got mine done at Garza Tire in Winton (near Atwater, near Merced) for 15 a piece and some "bood liiiiite" since they "dont do that anymore".

 

do it yourself, it's really easy. I did one a couple weeks ago too me 20 minutes.

 

they started out as the little 3/4inch pinner style whites. they look good from here and not too bad up close. you can see a place or two where they went too deep or where its uneven but for under a hundred i cant complain.

 

Got any pictures?

 

Friend of mine has a machine he will sell. PM me if you want his info'.

 

Just use a 36 gr disk on a 7" grinder, finish up with 80gr then 120 on a DA. Easy as pie, but do it outside!

 

I had the rear tires done as I could not find a tire that matched my vision... but the ones I had on the truck were about perfect but for they were raised white letter tires... sooooo they became skinny whites.


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I might have the fronts done to exactly match the rears, but that not all that critical to me.

 

These guys hook me up.....he has a really cool machine that does the grinding. Kinda looks like a balancer with a big arm and a grinder. Old lowrider shop, he's been doing it for yearsssss. Ask for Adam.

Santa Rosa Tires Plus
<CITE>www.[B]santa[/B]rosatiresplus.com</CITE>

905 N Dutton Ave
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 545-3570
Get directions

 

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Anyone in the Phoenix area do it ?

 

Does every tire have the white underneath the black???

 

No.

 

Every tire with a skinny white wall or white letters does! If you want big 'n littles, look for light truck raised white letters, say, 235/75R 15's, and smaller, like 205/70's or 75's fro the front.

 

Just hope your tires aren't crappy made, like the General Tire I had a go with once...

 

Kinda old thread, but i have a question, what about the rised white wall skinny whites?
Are those white under the black rubber too?

 

as long as theres any white on the tire they should be