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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 05:18 AM
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Inside or Outside?

Do you have your white letters on tires put on the outside for world to see or inside?
The newer the vehicle I always go inside... the older the vehicle I go outside. Does it really matter?
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 08:59 AM
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I like them on the outside, unless you do a lot of rock crawling where the letters would get rubbed off, then I would put them on the inside.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 09:01 AM
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I like them on the outside, unless you do a lot of rock crawling where the letters would get rubbed off, then I would put them on the inside.
Ditto. Same for me.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 11:34 AM
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My rims are boring factory flat gray, so I always try to put the letters on the outside to take attention away from the rims (in hopes it will work). Getting a new set put on right now, the last set didnt have white letters.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 11:45 AM
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Outside. Last time i had them in i got tired of people asking what type of tires i had on my truck. Now i always put them out so no more questions.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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Inside, I don't clean my tires and if they are nice tires I figure the lettering will encourage a moron to steal them.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 12:58 PM
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Outside. I figure for the money I spent on the tires (BFG's) I should at least show them off.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 01:50 PM
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Inside, just because I like the blackwall.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 03:41 PM
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I have my white lettering pointed on the inside. But I think the lettering looks good on the out side of a old pick-up or car.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 07:00 PM
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The ones on my truck are facing inside now....but that was the previous owner's decision.

I will always put the letters facing out though. Looks much better...makes the truck look mean...especially since my truck is ALL black anyways.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 07:24 PM
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Mine are on the outside but I'm thinking of putting the next set on the inside just so all the GMC and Chev owners can see them as I'm running them over.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 08:57 PM
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Inside, I like blackwalls.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 09:00 PM
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Inside. When they're brand new, and the truck is nicely washed, I like the look of the white letters about as well as blackwalls. But, if one is clean and the other dirty, it really draws attention to the dirty one, and the white letters always end up scuffed and dirty looking.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 09:48 PM
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Always blackwall out on trucks, usually on cars too, unless it's something like the Hoosier GTs I had on my old Mustang-
Mud tires always go blackwall out, just because a multi-colored beat truck with flat black or rusted white steelies doesn't look very good with white letter tires.
 
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Old Feb 1, 2006 | 11:11 PM
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inside,i like to put tirebright (armour all) on my tires,and it just seems to smear rubber all over the white letters.
 
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