The Danger of White Walls. (Taken from another site)

[Mr_4.0]

How the **** can paint on the sidewalls affect the tyres?

I'd put $50 on the table to say he had a puncture and didn't know, and kept driving until the tyre delaminated.

Source?

EXACTLY!!!!

[Phillis]

Any alteration that involves cutting in or sanding to a tyre is an mod that will alter the tyres stress limits.

Tyre construction is a fine art, the physics a tyre undergoes when when spinning is amazing, the centrifugal forces happening just want it to tear itself to pieces.

Best, and most accurate, sentences in this thread. Ever seen a tyre mid-burnout in super slow motion, or the stress put on it when taking a 90degree corner at ANY speed? what sh*t is whacked i tells ya.

[wato_87]

When Instant did my walls on the wagon, all they sanded back was the writing so its smooth. Even then, you could still clearly see what kind of tyre it was etc. They said they get so many people with low profile tyres wanting massively thick walls which they do advise against.

Done incorrectly, walls are dangerous. IE Doing them yourself like the case seems to be these days.

Moral of the story is, go to a proper joint to get them done and get a SAFE thickness for the tyre profile you have!

lol instant white walls did my mates clubby and it was still considered un road worthy

i have seen tyres for sale with colored walls in them, im guessing there road worthy as the tyre is manafactured with it?

[Rollin]

What did they do to them? Just bung some paint on or grind the crap out of the sidewall?

[wato_87]

they grind a "rebate" or "channel" you could call it on a machine,

its only 1 mm deep or so, less even about half inch wide, then they paint in the channel

[bushman]

With the amount of white walls/red walls getting around. if i was a tire manufacturer i'd be manufacturing tires with the white walls one them, can't defect them from the shop when they are unmodified.

[pHaT`eL]

They pretty much just smooth out the writing. the rest just gets scuffed so the paint sticks to it.