Thanks Michael for the offer of help, Just a manufacturer name on the tire wall and other such things as speed rating dimensions and all that blurb. The resulting mesh from Moi is plenty adequate to just apply a displacement map but, you know what modellers are like, always wanting to push things to see how far it can go. But must say I am enjoying playing with Moi v3 beta. I think where the problem might be coming from is the tyre solid, it was made from a cross section and then revolved exploding the solid into surfaces don't help either. I have even tried trimming sections of the wall where i wanted text, but that gave even stranger results that looked as if the text had been revolved around a control point or something. At other times the text appears upside down and there are times where it is stretched and distorted.

Have fun with it

Martin Spencer-Ford