RE: [ihc] White in or out

["John M. Adams" <jma@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Stegmann [mailto:steve.stegmann@domain.elided]
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 6:46 PM
> To: Ryan Moore; jma@domain.elided; weidenhe@domain.elided;
> keen@domain.elided; ihc-digest@domain.elided; Hofstetter John
> Subject: RE: [ihc] White in or out
>
>
> John,
>
> Am I that much older than everyone else?
>
> Don't you remember the dealer washing the blue off the tires as
> they mounted
> them?  Old Easton Tire in St. Louis had a floor level sink, really just a
> curb and drain, in the corner by the door.  They'd roll the tires
> over there
> and there was a long handled brush hanging on a nail by the sink.  They'd
> just wet it down and scrub it right off.
>
> Steve

Steve, I'm not sure if you're asking me or John H., but my response is... I
don't know how old you are! ;) I do know that you're right about the blue
stuff - it's there to protect the white, and will wash off. I remember tire
shops doing it years ago, but not for the last several sets I've bought,
usually at discount outlets. Maybe it's different at the *better* tire
stores, or perhaps you are correct, and laziness or bean counting has set
in. I never had any trouble washing it off of those I had mounted with the
white out, but on those where it was inside, I just left it alone. I never
tried the baked on treatment that Ryan mentions. My original question about
Ryan's paint wasn't about covering up the blue or white, anyway. I was just
thinking about ways to restore the shiny black of the sidewalls. I guess
what I really think is that change is the only constant, and no matter how
hard I try to prevent it, things will wear out, and never be new again
(remember, I just had a birthday...)  ~John A.