Now You Can Paint Your Tyres! - Page 2

clf · 16th February 2021, 14:52

And for scale models

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vallejo-M...id=19011376892

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bikerdude666 · 16th February 2021, 17:56

Has anyone seen the pens you can get for colouring in the tyre tread? I saw a post on a facebook group a year or 2 back, it was heat reactive and they'd spent hours carefully painting the tread on their tyres, so that it had red stripes all round the tyre. I think it lasted a couple of hundred miles before it had all come off, and then he spent a few more hours doing it again!

T-Cut · 17th February 2021, 14:44

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Originally Posted by wullie480

Does it come in white?

They were all the rage when I were a lad.

TC

bsafly · 17th February 2021, 16:46

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Originally Posted by T-Cut

They were all the rage when I were a lad.

TC

Ahh, B.F. Goodrich Silvertown whitewalls.

roverbarmy · 17th February 2021, 17:36

Don't paint the tyres before it goes for MOT. The tester that did one of my bikes got most upset when he got tyre paint all over the paperwork. He also said that it could have got onto the fabric on the seats of the next car (must have been pre-Covid!).

Oops!

Teflon · 18th February 2021, 08:50

For anyone who's curious, a couple of years back I thought I'd try some tyre paint on an actual tyre (rather than just the arch liners) just for the heck of it. I just did the inside of the tyre and was pleasantly surprised.

I still prefer the more modern tyre dressings, but the paint was better than I remember it from back in the '70's:

Cliff

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roverbarmy This is my second home Roverless + 1.7D Sportage Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: East Norfolk Posts: 7,050 Thanks: 729 Thanked 2,021 Times in 1,449 Posts	Don't paint the tyres before it goes for MOT. The tester that did one of my bikes got most upset when he got tyre paint all over the paperwork. He also said that it could have got onto the fabric on the seats of the next car (must have been pre-Covid!). Oops! __________________ Oil in my veins!

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Teflon This is my second home Lagoon 2.0 V6 75 Conn SE Saloon Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Chertsey Posts: 5,201 Thanks: 2,825 Thanked 2,920 Times in 1,570 Posts	For anyone who's curious, a couple of years back I thought I'd try some tyre paint on an actual tyre (rather than just the arch liners) just for the heck of it. I just did the inside of the tyre and was pleasantly surprised. I still prefer the more modern tyre dressings, but the paint was better than I remember it from back in the '70's: Cliff __________________ No. 4 of 6

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bikerdude666 Posted a thing or two Jaguar Xe diseasal Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Little Stanion, Corby Posts: 1,922 Thanks: 363 Thanked 390 Times in 241 Posts	Has anyone seen the pens you can get for colouring in the tyre tread? I saw a post on a facebook group a year or 2 back, it was heat reactive and they'd spent hours carefully painting the tread on their tyres, so that it had red stripes all round the tyre. I think it lasted a couple of hundred miles before it had all come off, and then he spent a few more hours doing it again!