Looking for an inexpensive way to transform your car’s appearance? Consider coloring the letters on your tire sidewalls! Not only will it freshen up your car’s appearance, but it’ll also separate your car from the pack with a unique high-performance look.
A Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition with white lettering on its tires, via Tuner Tom
All this project requires is about $20 and a few hours of your time.
First, let’s talk about the paint. You can paint the lettering on your tires any color you want. The most common color is white, followed by yellow. When painting tires, you have to use oil-based paint. The easiest way to apply it on the tire is with a paint marker. Now, let’s take a look at a comprehensive list of all the supplies you’ll need for this project:
Here’s what you need to do with each tire:
1. Remove the tire from your car.
2. Scrub the dirt and oil from the lettering area or the whole tire with a tire cleaner (or Windex if you don’t have tire cleaner). If you’ve used tire shine in the past, you’ll have to apply some extra elbow grease to get it all out. Once the cleaned area (or the whole tire) starts to look dull, it’s clean and free of any oily residue. Wipe with a clean rag until dry.
Make sure your tire letters are completely clean and dry! Credit: CashedOutCars’s YouTube tutorial
3. Grab your medium tip paint marker and shake it well. Pump the tip against a piece of paper, paper towel, or cardboard repeatedly until the paint starts to come out and the tip is well-saturated.
Saturate the tip of the pen with paint before beginning. Credit: CashedOutCars’s YouTube video
4. Color in the letters with the marker. The easiest thing to do is to fill in the centers first and then outline them carefully with the fine tip paint marker.
Take your time coloring in the letters for a clean look. Credit: CashedOutCars’s YouTube video
5. Touch up any of the spots you may have missed and let the paint dry. If you want your lettering to look brighter and bolder, apply another coat.
The end result. Credit: CashedOutCars’s YouTube video
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I somehow caught fire to highlight the brand name on the tire (like on sports cars or on off-road tires), but everything turned out to be not so simple ... It turns out that there is no information on the Internet on how to draw on rubber / tires / wheels correctly.
The first step was to find something to draw with so that everything drawn would not fall off the next day.
I started looking on the Internet, there are many options, from paint to marker. But I decided to stop at the marker, because. it will be easier to draw. The car at that moment was under repair and on winter tires, which means I had enough time to implement my Wishlist in the summer. It was very important that the paint with which we paint was elastic and resistant. And this turns out to be not easy. And the most interesting and appropriate (as I thought at the time) was the Edding 8050 tire marker with a 4mm tip.
Marker is specially designed for applying any marks and inscriptions on rubber, BUT this does not mean that it is suitable for applying to tires - as it turned out later. In general, I bought this marker and tried it in the evening. In general, I painted one wheel with this particular marker in 2 layers, but I was not very pleased with the result. They are very uncomfortable to draw. The paint either does not pour out at all, or vice versa, there is a lot at once and spreads.
In general, I got along well with him. It cracks and doesn't hold up well. I do not recommend you buy this marker! This is how I tried the marker on the inside of the rubber.
Here the inscription has a border and is easier to draw. The paint will not spill over the edge. But on the outside, the inscription does not have a side and this complicates the process. Because excess paint may spill out of the letter.
Fortunately, my brother had another marker in the garage - the cheapest paint marker with a 4 mm tip. and the next wheel I painted with it. It was already easier with him, but the thick sting / pen / tip does not allow you to draw accurately. So I found exactly the same cheap marker, only with a 2 mm sting.
And now with a thin marker, everything has become much easier and faster. I recommend this marker for painting tires. If for the first time it took me an hour for the first wheel, then it is many times less. As a result, the rest of the wheels were painted in 2 layers with a thin and cheapest marker.
It is not necessary to paint in two layers, it also holds and the effect is the same.
As practice has shown, the brand that is specially for tires lasted the least - about 1 week (it soon decreased, possibly due to the fact that it was on the front right wheel), this is of course very little. After 3 not even the slightest trace remained. But the cheap paint marker is still holding up, although it is well worn. Top of the wheel covered with ink for rubber Soft99 (there will be a new post about this) - so the inscriptions look very impressive !!!
After following all the rules and with due care, you will get an excellent result. And if you still don’t shuffle the rubber on the sides, then extend the service life. But do not think that this coverage will last for a long time. The paint is not elastic and cracks. And flies away with time.
Here is the result from a simple paint marker after 2.5 months.
Marker on rubber after 2.5 monthsAs you can see, the marker is almost invisible. But there was no trace of the Edding 8050 marker in a week.
I covered the top of the wheels with Soft99 rubber ink (this will be a separate article) — this way the inscriptions look very impressive!!!
And this is how fresh inscriptions, which are one day old, look like. Updated the inscriptions so to speak.
