Atlas White Wall inserts - never again!

Yes, your probably saying "why in the first place !"

Well in my defense I brought a set of resprayed wheels and new tyres off ebay and assumed that they were "propa" whitewall. They weren't but I had them anyway.

I read up on them and and ignored the warnings

Anyway - travelling back from my France Tour (thread comming soon to Holidays forum ) I heard a thud from the nearside wheel arch and investigated at the next services - filling up AGAIN.

I found this



Some may say "what's wrong with that ?"

It should look like this ..........



On further inspection I found this on (?) the nearside rear.



I've done about 8ooo miles with these in tact and that may be the normal life of them. I was cruseing about 65 mph for quite a while so maybe they just didn't like that

Probably OK if you are happy tootleing around town and not doing distance.

Not for me

 

Give this chap a go:

http://www.mrwhitewalls.com/

 

Atleast it didn't wear the sidewall away like this:

 

8000 miles
Wow . Well done. My new ones went from Newcastle to somewhere near North Wales.

 

Best home page ever

 

Looks better without them anyway. Too white against the colour of the steel. God I sound like Laurence Llewelyn Bowen.

 

As long as you dont dress like him no need to worry .

 

Thanks, I will but it will have to be when I need to replace the ones I have!

 

AHA! I see now, he stripes normal tyres.

mmm £40 per tyre, not this year then

 

he also sell the paint so you can do it yourself

 

yeah, that'll look good

 

You can pick up proper white wall commercial tyres for about £50 each on ebay at different times of the year - they seem to be about £60 at the moment though. I think I might slowly replace my tyres as they wear with the ebay ones rather than mess around with paint etc myself although I'm still not sure if l90d steelies and white walls are needed

 

They say there is a place at Beaulieu selling white walls for Bay windows...

 

I'm on a serious cost benefit quest as I'm seriously over spending what the Van's worth. And still want a respray and my dash refurbished!

However when mine wear out proper whites then

 

Theres some great pics on his website like this awesome Commer