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L - Learner Plates On
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Not sure about whitewalls but I can't imagine my M3W without it's redwalls ![[Linked Image]](http://sundreamer.co.nz/redwalls.jpeg) That definitely works.
2005 Plus 4
2020 Hyundai eKona
2020 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV
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I'm quite pleased with my White Walls ![[Linked Image]](https://tm-img.com/images/2021/08/27/2B1D3F12-A884-4191-8996-BCB60A195C84.jpg)
Craig Jezz
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Recently saw a new Plus Four in Matt black paint with gloss black wheels, brass centre wheel nuts and white wall tyres. It looked quite good. Not my taste though.
Paul
Costock, UK
Plus Four 75th - Furka Rouge - Pip
Disco 5
Teddy - 17h1 Irish Draught cross
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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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Just barreling along Needs to Get Out More!
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I don't even get the popularity of matt paint, let alone whitewalls 
Jon M
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Tricky Dicky Member of the Inner Circle
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Tricky Dicky Member of the Inner Circle
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+1 I don't get it either... when I think of those tyres those revolting little death traps of Nash Metropolitan spring to mind  ![[Linked Image]](https://www.tm-img.com/images/2021/08/27/Series_III_Hardtop.jpg)
2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev
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Roadster Guru Member of the Inner Circle
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We've discussed this before. Natural rubber is white. "Early" cars had white tyres..............
Wiki...........
The use of whitewall rubber for tire has been traced to a small tire company in Chicago called Vogue Tyre and Rubber Co that made them for their horse and chauffeur drawn carriages in 1914.[1]
Early automobile tires were made of pure natural rubber with various chemicals mixed into the tread compounds to make them wear better.[2] The best of these was zinc oxide, a pure white substance that increased traction and also made the entire tire white.[2] However, the white rubber did not offer sufficient endurance, so carbon black was added to the rubber to greatly increase tread life.[3] Using carbon black only in the tread produced tires with inner and outer sidewalls of white rubber. Later, entirely black tires became available, the still extant white sidewalls being covered with a somewhat thin, black colored layer of rubber. Should a black sidewall tire have been severely scuffed against a curb, the underlying white rubber would be revealed; it is in a similar manner that raised white letter (RWL) tires are made.
DaveW
'05 Red Roadster S1
'16 Yellow (Not the only) Narrow AR GDI Plus 4
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The spoked wheels on my Silver Cross pram (which I outgrew about 70 years ago) had white rubber tyres. They still do nowadays.
Peter
2009 3-litre Roadster "Ivor", royal ivory / green
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The spoked wheels on my Silver Cross pram (which I outgrew about 70 years ago) had white rubber tyres. They still do nowadays. Tyres are naturally that colour or near - they have to add carbon black to the latex etc to get the normal look.
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I'm quite pleased with my White Walls Certainly improves the traction, that's a very steep hill
Kevin
2009 Morgan Plus 4 - 4 seater
2015 Subaru Forester 2.0ltr
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And you from Essex where white socks prevail (says me, quickly ducking below the parapet)!!  I must confess I have a liking for white socks so you are forgiven  Has BHM started their monthly meets again yet ?
Last edited by Burgundymog; 28/08/21 08:52 AM.
Keith
2013 narrow bodied + 4 Ruby.
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