After I posted this ...

https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=16384

I went ahead and worked out a method myself. I thought folks might appreciate a tutorial on the method I used so I built one and here's the link:

https://members.iinet.net.au/~mrenoden/tutorial/Tyre.zip

Feel free to distribute this anywhere anytime

I'll try to answer questions if they come up and would like to hear if ppl like it.

Cheers

MrR