BF Goodrich Radial T/A letters turning brown

[John_Kunkel]

I was gonna state the obvious that not running RWL's showing takes care of the problem but even the black part of T/A's turn brown.

[DAY CLONA]

All white lettered and white wall tires brown eventually, it's not just a BFG issue, it's the "nature" of the tire degrading in the atmosphere, I've run Goodyears, BFG's, Coopers, Mich'es, just about every tire mfg at one time in the past 40 years,... white wall, white lettered, belted, radial they all stain/brown, often cleaning them involved tedious brushing with steel wool, stiff brushes, etc,  plus buying every spray/foam cleaner known to man...the ONLY thing that I found that actually STRIPS the brown off the letter in a single swipe is pure Trichlorethylene, if you have access to it?, but use it with a clean white only rag, and touch only the white letter portion, as it will somewhat dissolve the nearby black of the tire around the white letter or white wall stain the white black, and having to start over again, there's no heavy labour needed, just precise cleaning of each letter, it really strips the letter/white wall so clean it looks like they were painted white

[lukedukem]

All white lettered and white wall tires brown eventually, it's not just a BFG issue, it's the "nature" of the tire degrading in the atmosphere, I've run Goodyears, BFG's, Coopers, Mich'es, just about every tire mfg at one time in the past 40 years,... white wall, white lettered, belted, radial they all stain/brown, often cleaning them involved tedious brushing with steel wool, stiff brushes, etc,  plus buying every spray/foam cleaner known to man...the ONLY thing that I found that actually STRIPS the brown off the letter in a single swipe is pure Trichlorethylene, if you have access to it?, but use it with a clean white only rag, and touch only the white letter portion, as it will somewhat dissolve the nearby black of the tire around the white letter or white wall stain the white black, and having to start over again, there's no heavy labour needed, just precise cleaning of each letter, it really strips the letter/white wall so clean it looks like they were painted white

The last set I had where from 2001 and they were still white like new. These I just bought, they have maybe 500 miles on them. And it's only the rear tires. My fronts are 225/70 and they are white, ther rears are 255 and they are both browning. Very odd that only the rears are doing it.

Luke

[Rolling_Thunder]

my old BFGs used to have browning letters and still do...   I just hit them with powdered AJAX on a scotch brite backed sponge and it turned them nice and white again for a few months at a time.