Well, I bought a 1997 Dodge Ram 1500 pickkup. It has 121,000 miles. The guy wanted $2800, but I talked him down to $2300. I think that will work out well. One question, though. One of the tires has a white ring going around the sidewall. I have heard of whitewall tires, but this is not an…

This is either a white wall, or more likely a ‘raised white letter’ tire that’s old and has some of the black rubber worn away, exposing the white rubber underneath. You’ll want to check how old the tires are, google ‘tire decoder’ to find out how to read the numbers on the sidewall. How’s the tre…

Maybe it was a whitewall tire once, and it’s been scraped hard against something, like you suspect. My guess is that it’s not quite as strong as it was. Is the inner cord structure showing? If not, I would just watch it carefully. Of course, it’s your life you are risking, so I might be watching w…

Some tires will do that if you rub them against a curb too many times, although this is by far the worst case I have ever seen. Most of the ones I see doing that are Goodyears. You may just want to keep an eye on it and replace the tires as soon as practical. I would probably replace them ASAP si…

Ahhh. That pretty much settles it. My spare is 4 years newer and it doesn’t have the white ring! I think I’ll try that. Thanks! And my back tires are in really good shape. Awesome.

Hold on there. This sounds like you may have some really old tyres there. Old tyres may look great, but they are not safe to drive on. Rubber is sort of like milk. Fresh is good old is dangerous. The tyres may have a coded date of manufacture

it was probably a white letter tire that someone drove against the curb for a very long time. the white inlay on either a whitewall or a white letter tire goes all the way around the tire and is normally a couple of inches wide dates on tires, they have a code: the last three numbers on tires prior…

The previous owner of the truck was paid by the township to be a “CURB CLEANER” LOL… Ever see people who ride their tires along the curb in order to park…LOL…CURB CLEANERS…made that up in High School after a friend of mine who couldnt park. They either had a lettered tire OR just wore thru the th…

This is the classic sign that the truck was driven by a woman. Invariably, whenever I see an SUV or pickup truck with these “accidental whitewalls”, it turns out to be a vehicle driven by a woman who consistently scraped the tire along the curb and–possibly–also hit the curb a number of times. Per…

White ring around tire sidewall

Maintenance/Repairs

Rod-Knox February 12, 2011, 9:06pm 8

Whitewall and white lettered tires have a ribbon of white rubber covered with black rubber. The black is buffed off to expose the white. Curbing buffs off some of the black but so does driving on a flat or nearly flat tire. Have the tire pulled off the rim and inspected to make sure it is safe. If there is no structural damage just have the tire remounted with the damaged side in.

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