Hey guys Thought i would just give u guys a heads up i heard from a very close contact a *copper* just got sent an email today saying that from now on they are alowed to give out Major defects for Walls as its "a risk that the tyre may fail at any time and put the operator and other road users at risk." Its f**ked hopefully they dont police it much!

You do scrape a tiny amount of rubber off the tyre before applying the white wall but unless it was pretty deep I can't see it being an issue and affecting the integrity of the tyre wall. If I had them I would tell the copper they are made like that... because you can buy tyres with white walls in them that are not aftermarket.

I didn't think any tyre needed to be scraped off at all?

yeh cadillacs, old jags RR's had them all it shouldnt be id take that to court if i got done for it

yep you do need to scrape a bit of them we have a white wall setup

they sand a tiny layer off the top so that they can put the paint on smoothly

Quote: Originally Posted by bar0034 they sand a tiny layer off the top so that they can put the paint on smoothly It's grooved with a grinder.

It's because some of the walls cut out or cover tyre size, load rating ect making it unable to be read.

bloody hell is there anything else they want to start on?? im gettin walls done in a few weeks so lets just hope i dont get a reaming

Quote: Originally Posted by PROGMH It's grooved with a grinder. spot on.

lol this sounds a lil bit ridiculous... they dont take too much of the tyre away to make walls... its just another way to piss you off i guess haha

yeh they have to buff off some of the lettering, but i thought they always had a law against cos u scraped away info on your tyres?

as above the specs of the tyre are removed in the process thereby making it an unknown grade/standard of tyre the old school ones had the tyre specs still written on them often on the white wall like with everything it's your call whether you think thoroughly through what choices you make about your car it's hardly anyone elses fault if you don't make the right enquiries first before going ahead and end up getting fined and throwing money away whitewalls are only an automotive 'fashion statement' after all

be smart dont scrape off the lettering and **** when i had double walls my letterings (tyre specifications) were between each wall. cop tried to do me for it, but i showed him that the lettering was all still there and hadnt been touched so he let me off.

just get a small mirror and tell them to read the details off the un-whitewalled side of the tyre lol

I have been hearing talk of this for a while and are amazed that it has taken this long for something to come out. I can see where they are comming from as untrained idiots can rip the crap out of ya tyres but it will be good to see how they police this.

portawalls ftw lol so laugh if they tryn get me for portawalls haha

is this all over australia or just melbourne??

i believe australia wide

yeah but the police here wont do you for white walls unless they go on a mega blitz i cruise my hwy with a semi obvious vlt and i go past them all the time and if they say these are illegal say "since when" - make the cadillac argument or just do what chemical did