[Power Surge]

Originally Posted by Cashburn

I think you need to see the Billboards in person to understand why you cannot take a regular tire and paint the logo on it ... the Billboards have a smooth sidewall with no embossing.

The Goodyear billboards are not smooth on the side, all the lettering is embossed. But the embossment matches the painted stencil, so obviously it works fine on the actual Goodyear tire. But as you stated, you can't really paint it on another brand of tire, because it will have all it's brand lettering embossed as well.

I have the Goodyears on my car and I have no problems with them. I don't feel they throw rocks anymore than any other tire. I have almost 3000 miles on my car since the end of last summer, and have no rock tire damage on my fenders. You could always line the undersides of your fenders with thick celled foam rubber or truck bedliner, that's what many people do regardless of tire brand.