I need to paint my tires!

Does anyone know if the old white wall tire paints still exsist, and if so, where I could locate some?

Im looking to paint my tires on my chopper bicycle.

Thanks for any info and/or leads

 

I guess you can use that Krylon Fusion paint, I haven't done it before. Let me know how it goes if you try it.

 

That's funny. I've done it. I just use a gray colored primer rattle can first AND then use Krylon's flat white paint or as I like to call it............wide whites in a can.

If you don't use the gray primer FIRST, the heat from the rubber will cause it to turn yellow within minutes.

xxx
Brandy

 

Also try Plastic-dip ,white in the spray can. I had good results.Sparky

 

When I was in high school, one of my buddies had a Boss 429 Mustang. One day he was shining it all up and he sprayed his tires gloss black from a can.

It really looked good...............until he moved the car, it cracked all over the place and we spent the next hour wiping it all off.

Just be careful what you paint them with!

JayD

 

My poncho could use a set of wide whites! If you find something that works let us know. I could probably aford them that way !

 

Krylon fusion flexes with the tire and will stick if you haven't put tons of silicone on the tires to shine them up!
I sanded the brand names off the sidewalls with a DA and masked and sprayed...lasted about a year before needing resprayed!

 

SSAAAWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! might have to try it!

 

I had a chopper bike in the mid-eighties that I used a skinny Schwinn (sp?)tire on the front with whitewalls courtesy of a 59 cent bottle of white permanant shoe polish. Flipped the bike over, started spinning the tire, then applied polish as wide as I wanted. Looked purty sweet. The rear was one of those fat slicks that my dad had from the sixties, kept nice by using black shoe polish.

FYI ... The stuff in the bottles with the foam head should work lots better than Kiwi in a can.

 

This is just a bike, so no biggie, tires won't get hot. But I'd save myself the trouble of MAKING whitewalls, and just go buy a pair from WALMART, yes they have them.

As for cars...

Shaving thin whites into wide whites works well for a 5-10 footer, takes 30 minutes per tire on or off the wheel, on or off the car with an angl grinder and a floppy grinding disc.

Using a DA to smooth out the tire and then using a fogged coat of gray primer and some Krylon Fusion works well, but must be applied in light coats with LOTS of cure time between and after for the best, uncracked, results.

Touch ups with white shoe polish works on all whitewalls pretty well.

just my $.02