70SwingerGuy
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I agree, my BFG T/A's turned brown very quickly, within a few months. I will never buy them again. Cooper Cobra's from now on.
BF Goodrich radial T/A white letters
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Sweet car ! I like that and all previous generations. I know of a 72 that has 40k on it and could be had cheap . Very tempted to…. Really nice condition but it’s an L42 car . I think I could get it for 9k .
My 35 year old Goodyear Polyglas I took off the Bird are still WHITE ! The new ones I bought this Spring are bright white. The new T/A's on the Wife's Formula S are BROWN, as are every other set of BF's in the house. I'd never buy them, they just happened to come on the vehicles we bought. The Cooper Cobra's (made by Goodyear) on my 64 are 5 or 6 years old and are WHITE...
My highschool buddy had a Monte Carlo with BF's on it back in '78. They turned Brown a few weeks after he cleaned the Blue coating off... tire marker after that! Nothing has changed in almost 50 years...
My highschool buddy had a Monte Carlo with BF's on it back in '78. They turned Brown a few weeks after he cleaned the Blue coating off... tire marker after that! Nothing has changed in almost 50 years...
That sucks. I bought my last pair of BFG's a couple years ago. I went through 2 pairs of brown letters.
Shouldn't need to be bleaching anything. Kelsey tire will invalidate your tire warrantee for using anything but soap and water to remove the protective Blue coating off of their Goodyear line up.
Ya might want to look closer at the rears.
This is White.. at the time 30 year old tires..
It’s just the shadow from my red gas cans inside garage they are the same as the front
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I hear what you guys are saying, and I agree they shouldn't turn brown. Don't you remember when we used to scrub the White Walls. When I was a kid we would spray a cleaner like 409 and scrub with a bristle brush to get them clean.
Y’all know that rubber is actually brown, and that they dye the rubber black for the tires, and dye the letters white. The owner of the company I work for used to work at Uniroyal, in the raw rubber room, cutting the rubber as it came out of the pulling machine. So it’s the white dye process that BFG uses that is the problem, and the reason other companies don’t have that problem.
Amongst the many, many posts on here about the BFG letters turning brown, there was one where a chemist explained it all very well. That it was a chemical reaction and to turn them white again, you needed the proper solvent/cleaner, etc, etc to reverse the reaction. He tested his theory and found he was correct.
I have BFG's on my show pony 71 Demon. They are about 3 years old now. I wouldn't call the letters brown but they were certainly not as white as they should be. So after reading that post (probably 1-2 years ago), I followed his advice and got out a scotchbrite pad and acetone. A little scrubbing with the pad and a wipe with a rag with acetone and viola, white letters. I've found the white lasts about 3-5 months and then repeat the process. Give it a try!
One other thing that I have not tried is "back in the day," my dad had me wash his car and "do the whitewalls." That meant get the Brillo pad out and start scrubbing. I always hated that job. But it sure worked well back then to turn the whitewalls white and chew up my fingers! But haven't tried it on these BFG white letters so no clue if it does anything.
I have BFG's on my show pony 71 Demon. They are about 3 years old now. I wouldn't call the letters brown but they were certainly not as white as they should be. So after reading that post (probably 1-2 years ago), I followed his advice and got out a scotchbrite pad and acetone. A little scrubbing with the pad and a wipe with a rag with acetone and viola, white letters. I've found the white lasts about 3-5 months and then repeat the process. Give it a try!
One other thing that I have not tried is "back in the day," my dad had me wash his car and "do the whitewalls." That meant get the Brillo pad out and start scrubbing. I always hated that job. But it sure worked well back then to turn the whitewalls white and chew up my fingers! But haven't tried it on these BFG white letters so no clue if it does anything.
Good luck cleaning the browned letters with Acetone and Brillow pads. It doesn't work. If you can clean them with that, you don't have the brown letter issue we are talking about. The brown leeches in through the letters from the tire. It's not just stains on the surface. I ground mine with a 3M Scotchbrite disc in a die grinder. The letters came clean and browned a couple weeks later.
mopowers
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I remember that post, and also tried the acetone solution on a car I had at the time with BFG's. It worked like a charm and didn't take much elbow grease at all.
That's my experience as well. And I had a friend try it on his and it worked there too.
And @toolmanmike , this IS the same brown that comes from within that we're talking about. That was the post where the acetone idea came from.
Like I mentioned, I haven't tried the Brillo pad but I can attest that the acetone does work.
Some light work with a sos pad was the remedy back in the day. I've been turning mine around the black side out for the last 30 years. I also agree BF T/As are really only decent tires and they were better than what was available when they came out but there's better tires for better Price now .JMO
In post 20 there is a quote from BFG explaining why the white turns brown, and how to turn it white again.
slantsixdan
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That's a good way to make sure the brown comes back. Bits of steel wool break off and get embedded in the white rubber, then rust.
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