Patent ID: 8821664

Claim:
A method of fabricating a pneumatic tire, comprising pasting a smooth resin film having a melting point equal to or higher than 230° C., a Young's modulus equal to or larger than 2.5 GPa and a thickness of 10 through 150 μm to an outer surface of a side portion of an unvulcanized tire, the outer surface being black in color, and vulcanizing and molding the unvulcanized tire in the state of pasting the resin film, wherein the resin film has an arithmetic average surface roughness (Ra) equal to or smaller than 0.1 μm, is provided in a ring-like shape over an entire periphery in a tire peripheral direction in substantially a total in a height direction of the tire side portion and is provided directly, without interposition of an adhering agent, to the outer surface of the tire side portion to be able to be exfoliated therefrom, and further comprising exfoliating the resin film, and wherein the outer surface of the side portion of the tire after exfoliating the resin film has a 60° glossiness of 60-64.