Boards under tires

Effy wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
Simple question to answer your question? Do you park your family car on boards? Why not? You just answered your own question.

However, reason why you SHOULD use boards for your RV.

1) If you are parked on soft ground, like sand, grass, or dirt. It helps keep the tires from sinking in the ground. When it rains, the ground softens and the tires begin to sink. Pulling out of a hole might be difficult, or even cause you to get stuck and need a tow truck to wench you out. If you use boards, the tires will never sink in the ground. The board may, but the tires will not, always insuring you are able move the camper freely.

2) If you are parked on asphalt. The weight of the camper and not moving the camper at all in heat, can cause the asphalt under the tires to soften and result in the asphalt having dimples where the tires sat. If you use boards, the weight of the camper is distributed over a wider area and will not cause the asphalt to dimple.

3) If you are parked on a solid surface (asphalt or concrete) and it's prone to flooding, boards under the tires may help raise the camper higher than the water, keeping the tires dry.

4) Boards under the tires help level the camper side-to-side.

If it was bad for tires to be sitting directly on concrete, asphalt, dirt, grass, or sand, then ALL of our vehicles are in SERIOUS trouble.

Simple, you drive your car often and keep the tires moving which is good for the tires. That's why you don't do it on your car. If it sat for months, it's an entirely different scenario. Rolling tires under weight keeps the oils moving, flexes them and keeps them in good shape. The worst thing for any tire is to sit, drying out and hardening. So your argument is moot because it's apples and oranges.

We only use boards to level, so usally one side has boards. We don't use rear jacks as we don't mind the flex in the 5er when moving around unless the springs receive all movement the tires do flex and are not static loaded.