Brown Staining on Whitewalls

[Bill G]

I switched from Firestone white walls to the American Classic whitewall radials last spring. I am not happy with the whitewalls at all. They blemish seemingly just by looking at them. Finger prints, road crud, you name it are very difficult to remove and there are brown streaks (like the ones shown) that have appeared out of nowhere. Like the OP, I made sure that the whitewalls never came into contact with anything at all before mounting. Bleachwhite would normally take these marks off when I had the Firestones, but remain difficult to impossible with these. Yes, I get better road handling out of the radials, but the issues around keeping white walls white is making it seem like I made the wrong choice.