White Tire Paint Pen - Waterproof Permanent Paint pens for Car Wheels Lettering | Car Wash Safe and Durable | Made in Japan (Pack of 1)

They are good, but not permanent. If it rains a lot or you go to car wash. It will require some touch up, to stay nice and clean. Also oil on the road or chems can mess with it.

Color is true red and gave the exact look I wanted... Like any other paint it should be applied in thin layers for best results. If you think your gonna color in the letters on the tire one time and get the results I did its not gonna happen! I went over the letters 4 times with thin coats and had excellent results. First and foremost make sure to clean the surface your gonna paint before using the marker, I cleaned the tires with rubbing alcohol. If you don't clean the surface first you might as well just not bother continuing as you will be very upset with your results!!Make sure to press down the point of the marker on a clean surface like a piece of cardboard to prime the tip of the marker so its wet with paint prior to application. Also when painting with this marker do not press down hard on the surface you are working on because the marker will bleed all over your project and make a mess resulting in you having to reclean the surface and starting over. Last but not least make sure when applying coats to wait about 10 minutes between coats for drying time, I personally did one set of letters and moved to the next wheel and by the time I got back to the original wheel for the next coat of paint it was good to go. When applying the 2nd plus coat do not press down the marker but instead just glide over the lettering with just enough pressure to transfer paint from the marker to the tire. Repeat this process about 4 times and you will have excellent results. This marker provided the best red color out of all the markers I have tried so far. Very happy with my results.

I'm going to try to explain every why I gave this product a 1 star review with the most details covered. First off, I'm BRAND NEW to the tire painting game. I went into this project with the difficulty setting HIGH. I looked at a few products before buy this paint pen and decided that this product was fit for a new to the game person. THE PEN. So I thought about half way through that it was operator error, but soon I realized that this pen design is TERRIBLE. The tip of the pen seemed to not fit the tube very well. Now maybe that is by design to help with the paint flow, but if it is then it just let most of the paint come out and fly all over the place when shaking the pen without the cap placed over it. THE FLOW. The tip of the pen seemed to always be dry, I would shake the pent VIOLENTLY up and down like one would a paint raddle can, but like I stated in my previous section, paint flew everywhere and still the tip seemed to be dry. The cap placed over the tip didn't seem to make much difference. I decided to take my tires off and lay them flat to maybe help the flow of the paint, but that didn't make much difference. GRAVITY. It would seem that the angle of the pen is a KEY factor in paint delivery. I initially had my tires on the rotor, but QUICKLY realized that the paint was just running down the tire and not staying in the letters. So I laid my tires on the ground and that seemed to help some. 3 COATS. I got two tires applied with one coat and figured that my car would look weird with just two tires painted and two non-painted. I decided to march on and after my first coat I was about fed up with this pen. I did one coat and had enough. OVERALL. My experience with this paint pen was TERRIBLE. Honestly would be easier to tape off my tires and get a spray can or paint brush.

Edit: Dropping this to three stars from four. Having had my wheels painted for some time, the product is faded a little, but still looks good. My only complaint is the company never sent the free set that you're supposed to get for writing a review or registering with them online - which I did. I will probably go with ordering tires next time, then using real paint on them next time instead of these markers - and I'll do that BEFORE they're mounted. I'm not expecting a paint like this to last forever, but I do expect a company to honor its commitments - if they say they'll ship a free marker, then they should ship a free marker. Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with the product itself. So, first, I like the look - especially from a distance! The product is easy to apply with the pen, but the pen needs some improvement. The thin nib started to fray, but this actually made it paint better until it completely wore out. Here's what you need to know to do this: 1) Make sure you have a CLEAN paper towel each time you go to paint. You'll need this for any overflow/spillage/drippage that occurs. 2) Have something to scrape (semi) dried paint with - this helps if you get some on the tire and it dries before your realize it - just scrape it off. 3) Wash your tires and allow them to dry (usually an hour or two - esp. if you have raised letters). Any good de-greasing car soap should work just fine. Use a tire brush - they run about $10. 4) DO NOT shake the pen without the cap! MAJOR mess - paint everywhere! Yeah... should have realized that from the start... 5) Go slow! Prime the pen, then just dab and stroke where you want paint. If some drips (due to excess amount of paint coming out as you prime), use a paper towel to wipe up the area immediately and then reapply where you want the paint. Make sure you get it off your rims immediately - it's easy enough to remove. 6) The pen doesn't always prime well. My tires had raised outline white letters originally. I found that I could put the pen INSIDE the letter and prime, and paint would fill in the letter, with just a couple of strokes, however, there is risk of spillage! 7) As you do this, keep a paper towel pushed against the bottom of the letter you are working on! This helps stop paint from splashing on your rim (see 5 above). 8) Move your vehicle so that the text/letters/word you are working on is close to the TOP of the tire. 9) Do one tire at a time, moving your vehicle as needed to put the word you're working on close to the top. 10) Allow the each coat to dry for at least a couple of hours. While your waiting, do the other tires. You will probably be done with the first coat on all tires and still have to wait. I waited overnight. 11) For raised lettering, I found it was easier to fill in the lettering first, then do the outline of the raised letter. 12) Lastly, there is a thin nib and a thick nib. The pen comes with both. To change the nib, just pull it all the way out, flip it, and put it back in. The one thing that I would say could be improved upon, is that Tire Ink should provide some thinner/paint remover and a black paint pen as part of a kit with the color you're using. I'd have bought that right off the bat for cleaning up messes. Overall, it looks amazing at a distance, and pretty good close up. Time should wear off the few paint smudges where I wasn't able to wipe up completely due to the paint getting into the pores of the rubber. As I just applied this, I don't know how long it will last, but I hope at least until I get new tires! I give an A+ for product, B- for pen design, A+ for style/look, B for ease of use. Overall, a solid B+.

Product is good, it does what it says. The only issue I have with this pen is the “fine point” side wont last you to do a second tire application when “filling” in the letters. I have a Wrangler with 5 tires and each tire needed up three coats. By the second tire’s first application or the fourth application using the same fine point side, it starts to fall apart and it makes a huge mess. You can probably zoom in and see my white letter tires look pink. I reached out to the company that makes these and they do not offer the option to buy extra tips, and since I didn’t contact them sooner, I have to buy more pens. I bought a total of 5 pens two years ago and still have ink left to do another 5 tires but the fine point side is useless. I wouldn’t buy these if you’re looking to “fill” the letters. The regular side works great as long as it’s not being applied in tight areas. They hold up ok against curb rash but are horrible against tire degreasers. So when cleaning your tires, be gentle!

Work really well. Nice and bright. We use them on Kart racing tires to mark them for tech.

Hey to be honest everyone i dont know what all the negative reviews are about yall honestly might just be incapable? Ive used this tire ink on my car for almost 6 years and only have had to touch up after winters. What the directions dont tell you (which you should know anyways) temperature matters it should be at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit out or the ink wont flow. When you open the package the tip can be switched around to the round tip (works a lot better) and dont just prime at first and shake at first. You are going to have to prime and shake the pen in between every 1-2 letters. (I like to get a rag or a piece of cardboard to tap the pen tip onto until the ink starts to flow) dont let it flow too much though or it will drip if too much comes out simply wipe the tip once or twice on your rag or cardboard. I usually do 2 coats and it is very vibrant. In between coats let each tire dry for at least a half hour. Quickest way to get it done is do all of the tires one coat and then once you start the second coat the first tire should be dry and continue with the other 3. After all coats are done let the pasint dry over night or it will crack ( if not overnight at least 8-10 hours) one pen lasts me 4-6 coats on all of my tires. If you follow these instructions you should have no issues.

I recently bought a set of new tires for my car, and I wanted to decorate them up a bit (but not too flashy) by painting the letters to get them to pop out a bit. I did some looking around online and decided to buy this product. I watched a couple of how-to videos online and thought, "How hard can it be?" Simply put, I am so frustrated by this that the only way I can vent right now is to write a review, and I never write product reviews online. I first prepped the tires by cleaning them as best I can, even rubbing the surfaces down with acetone to ensure a clean surface. I knew going into this that it would be tedious, be time consuming, and require a lot of patience. So I had my afternoon set aside to work on my tires. I applied the first layer onto my tires as best as I could, ink coverage wasn't good but I knew that based off of the how-to videos that I watched. When I applied the second layer I made good progress. The letters were starting to look more solid but I could tell a third layer was needed, as the manufacturer suggested. When I tried putting on the third layer that is when everything went downhill. I got very inconsistent results with the ink when I tried to apply my third layer. Too little and it doesn't fill that gaps needed that the second layer couldn't cover. Too much and the ink would reactivate the layers underneath it and it would just smear everywhere. I did the best I could to work with it but it was so frustrating that by the time I got to my 4th tire I was just mentally done and ready to throw the product in the trash. The letters ended up looking blotchy or faded because of the inconsistent results when trying to use this. This leads me to my complaints: First, reloading the ink pen. The instructions say to press down on the tip to reload ink on to the pen, that performed inconsistently. I would press down on the tip and nothing would come out, and I would have to press several times just to get a little bit of ink out. Or I would barely press down of the tip and then ink would start flowing out so rapidly it would overflow and make a mess. I ended up wasting a lot of ink because of this issue. Next, the tip of the ink pen, it feels too hard. My user experience with this felt as if the tip of the pen was smearing the ink around, rather than spreading it around on the surface of the tire. It made it difficult at times to apply new ink on the tire, especially when I was applying the third layer. I was ready to ditch the pen and just grab a small paint brush to apply the ink, if I had one. Third, the instructions need more detail. Based on some of the how-to videos it looked like applying the ink would be rather effortless. However, there was no clarity as to how much or little ink was needed to apply. Or how hard or soft I should be pressing on the tire to spread, I mean smear, the ink. The instructions said "load pen with ink, apply in 1 cm strokes." Onto my results. The attached photo is the best looking tire out of the four, it only gets worse from there. To those who found this easy to use and got great results, kudos to you. I found this to be frustrating, unsatisfying, and ruined my ambition to try to make any improvements. I spent 4 hours working on my tires, and in the end all I could think is I want my afternoon back. I have no comments on durability at this time. Winter is coming and there will be plenty of snow, ice, rain, salt, etc. that comes with my area. I'll wait and see how the paint holds up during winter.