Boards under tires
Going to be park for 6 months, How important is it to put boards under your tires? I do use tire covers. Thanks for all comments.
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I always store on gravel, I get 10 years out of most tires, which some posters say is impossibly long, but I've never had a flat and observed only slight cracking.
My understanding is continuous heat is the prime cause of the tread cracks, followed by continuous water and underinflation. This would be indicate gravel is best, and meets my personal experience for the very limited information that provides, and boards should minimize heat problems on ashfault as well as moisture when the surface is soil but likely still not as good as gravel in a wet environment.
For what's it's worth a guy who sells used tires told me he figures it's almost all inflation that leads to structural cracks, he would not buy a tire that was let sit with significantly low pressure which he says is easy to spot even if reflated. He was talking extremely underinflated and car tires, which is not the same i'd hope anyway, but a tire that underinflated long enough for it to be visable probably means a car that sat around a lot....
My understanding is continuous heat is the prime cause of the tread cracks, followed by continuous water and underinflation. This would be indicate gravel is best, and meets my personal experience for the very limited information that provides, and boards should minimize heat problems on ashfault as well as moisture when the surface is soil but likely still not as good as gravel in a wet environment.
For what's it's worth a guy who sells used tires told me he figures it's almost all inflation that leads to structural cracks, he would not buy a tire that was let sit with significantly low pressure which he says is easy to spot even if reflated. He was talking extremely underinflated and car tires, which is not the same i'd hope anyway, but a tire that underinflated long enough for it to be visable probably means a car that sat around a lot....
