Indoor winter storage.

I store ours with jacks down. Takes weight off springs and tires. Others will store up.

I store mine with the jacks up. The motorhome manual suggests that. I should also put plywood underneath each wheel since mine sits on a concrete floor. I don't do the plywood and have not noticed any issues (I also don't keep a tire more than 7 or 8 years).

I would leave the leveling jacks up if that is what the manual says. Instead I would use jack stands at the four corners to take SOME weight off of the tires and springs.

If you were going to use it year round you would have weight on the tires and springs, I don't see why you would do anything different because it's sitting still, possibly flat spot on tires but not sure I believe that but definitely not any difference to the springs. They don't know if they're in storage or not.

Farmboy666 wrote:
If you were going to use it year round you would have weight on the tires and springs, I don't see why you would do anything different because it's sitting still, possibly flat spot on tires but not sure I believe that but definitely not any difference to the springs. They don't know if they're in storage or not.

Kinda makes you wonder why some people have had to change their sagging leaf springs to get their coach back up to the proper ride height. Leaf springs will sag over time so maybe taking some weight off of them could prolong their life.

Down and on wood. A lot of weight can damage the coated concrete floors.

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Farmboy666 wrote:
If you were going to use it year round you would have weight on the tires and springs, I don't see why you would do anything different because it's sitting still, possibly flat spot on tires but not sure I believe that but definitely not any difference to the springs. They don't know if they're in storage or not.

Kinda makes you wonder why some people have had to change their sagging leaf springs to get their coach back up to the proper ride height. Leaf springs will sag over time so maybe taking some weight off of them could prolong their life.

Probably because they were under built to start with like so many other things in an RV. I have a 94 Suburban 3500 with over 200k on it I use to pull around a backhoe with, sometimes sits for months, original springs and no sag, why, because it was built right to start with.

Farmboy666 wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Farmboy666 wrote:
If you were going to use it year round you would have weight on the tires and springs, I don't see why you would do anything different because it's sitting still, possibly flat spot on tires but not sure I believe that but definitely not any difference to the springs. They don't know if they're in storage or not.

Kinda makes you wonder why some people have had to change their sagging leaf springs to get their coach back up to the proper ride height. Leaf springs will sag over time so maybe taking some weight off of them could prolong their life.

Probably because they were under built to start with like so many other things in an RV. I have a 94 Suburban 3500 with over 200k on it I use to pull around a backhoe with, sometimes sits for months, original springs and no sag, why, because it was built right to start with.

That may be true but your Surburban is not usually loaded close to the max gross weight most of the time whereas most RV's are pretty close to max gross weight at all times, whether sitting or driving. Since they try to provide a softer ride, the springs are probably just barely adequate to support the gross weight and they will eventually sag.

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Farmboy666 wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Farmboy666 wrote:
If you were going to use it year round you would have weight on the tires and springs, I don't see why you would do anything different because it's sitting still, possibly flat spot on tires but not sure I believe that but definitely not any difference to the springs. They don't know if they're in storage or not.

Kinda makes you wonder why some people have had to change their sagging leaf springs to get their coach back up to the proper ride height. Leaf springs will sag over time so maybe taking some weight off of them could prolong their life.

Probably because they were under built to start with like so many other things in an RV. I have a 94 Suburban 3500 with over 200k on it I use to pull around a backhoe with, sometimes sits for months, original springs and no sag, why, because it was built right to start with.

That may be true but your Surburban is not usually loaded close to the max gross weight most of the time whereas most RV's are pretty close to max gross weight at all times, whether sitting or driving. Since they try to provide a softer ride, the springs are probably just barely adequate to support the gross weight and they will eventually sag.

I thought that's ore or less what I said, also possibly don't store at max gross weight might help.