hi my name is Tony I'd like to welcome you to my garage.
It's been uh probably the better part 10 years since I've done a YouTube video
and I wanted to do one today to kind of get into it an issue that's kind of a hot topic
in the old muscle car segment and it's out in a lot of forms a lot of Facebook user groups.
it's BF Goodrich radial TA'Ss and what I would call the brown letter raised brown leather tires
and kind of a simple fix. Although I can tell you right now and I've been a customer of BF Goodrich
for the better part of 35 years. I have purchased at least 10 sets of them over the years ,
this is the last set I'm going to purchase. The tires on my 1970 Mach 1 are roughly 2 years old.
I've applied my kind of Jenky fix to the set you see here and I'm going to show you the set and
let me just pull the camera off, in the back of the car so you can see what I'm upset
about that tire is about two years old. I've used a wire brush on it and I'll zoom in there uh I've
used uh SOS pads. I have used of course the Bleach White that didn't do a thing to it. Nothing really
can make these letters white again. They become brown to that point and if you look at my garage
floor you can see where the old tire where the tires are where the car sat for a week or two, uh
I don't know if it's an oil or a chemical or what but it just leaches out of the tires itself
onto the concrete. We're going to go up here and take a look at my
kind of repurposed tire and this is the the tire that I just finished
maybe about 15-20 minutes ago and while they don't look 100 percent better, they look a lot better
and I'm going to show you what I used here. I'm going to put this back up on its pedestal. Okay
and this is the product I used it's a sharpie
and it's a sharpie it's an oil-based paint sharpie. It actually works pretty well.
You want to make sure you have a small paper towel or something sometimes the
paint will actually leach out of these things pretty excessively
but all you do is just paint in white. I'm not sure how long this fix is going to last.
I'm upset that I actually have to do it at all but it does appear that it works pretty well
and it definitely brings up the whiteness of the letters. So this is the second coat on this tire
and while this is not ideal. I prefer just raised white letters that didn't turn brown.
um it's something that works. I got two of these pens for like 12 dollars on Amazon it's not a bad fix.
So I did one of my tires about a month ago it's held up pretty well.
some of the brown is starting to leach back into it but this is a relatively easy fix. It
takes maybe five minutes of tire just trace around the letters and you do get a decent finish on them.
okay so that's just kind of my rant um like I said I'm not going to purchase another set of
Radial TA's. This is it. I'm going to go to Cooper Cobra I'm going to go to a Dunlop Qualifier
I'm going to go to something where I don't have tire marks all over my floors and brown raised
brown letters. Nobody pays for raised brown letters if that's just hideous so whatever
they've reformulated in this time in the last five years is it's just not it's not working.
it's not working through and this is like I said you can just search BF Goodrich radial TA
raised brown letter and you'll see literally hundreds and hundreds of posts about people
are upset about this issue. So the only thing I can find that works with it is a white
sharpie oil-based uh pen and it holds up for maybe to hold it for the season for you
and uh next year you'll be at it again just to make the tires look acceptable.