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    Kicking around ideas, I know that a person can take a narrow whitewall and carefully grind away the thin black layer to make it a wide white wall. For a Raised White Letter tire, is the white layer that forms the letters on top of the black, which would let you carefully grind away the letters leaving a nice, slick blackwall with no ID? It would not be good to grind them away finding white below, making a ugly white blob on the sidewall...
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    Kicking around ideas, I know that a person can take a narrow whitewall and carefully grind away the thin black layer to make it a wide white wall. For a Raised White Letter tire, is the white layer that forms the letters on top of the black, which would let you carefully grind away the letters leaving a nice, slick blackwall with no ID? It would not be good to grind them away finding white below, making a ugly white blob on the sidewall...

    Take a look at a car with OWL's that has been curbed hard and you will often see a white ring around the tire
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    There is a white layer under the letters. If you don't want white letters, turn the tire around on the rim! QED
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    Quote Originally Posted by dmw56 View Post
    There is a white layer under the letters. If you don't want white letters, turn the tire around on the rim! QED
    Yes, but on a fenderless car the backside is still on display, just a bit less prominent. I was afraid that the white layer was deep, with a thin black overlay around the OWL/RWL. Coker says "Paint 'em black!"
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    Quote Originally Posted by rspears View Post
    Yes, but on a fenderless car the backside is still on display, just a bit less prominent. I was afraid that the white layer was deep, with a thin black overlay around the OWL/RWL. Coker says "Paint 'em black!"
    Yep, Coker is right - and now, can you still buy tire black??

    Here's a tire dye that might work:http://www.superiorcarcare.net/forblactirge.html

    ....and another, which might be the same stuff, from AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Forever-Black-.../dp/B000B69OFK
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