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jpwiggo
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Jan 03, 2017

Keeping Jacks Down for Storage to reduce tire flat spots

I know from my tire engineer friends, that the weight sitting in one spot is bad for these 22.5 RV/commercial type tires, and reduces tire life. I'm still on my OE tires (11 years old) and want to ke...
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n0arp
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Jan 04, 2017
Tom/Barb wrote:
jshupe wrote:
11 year old tires need to be replaced. Even commercial 22.5 ones...

In answer to your first question, though, we only bother lifting ours off the tires if we're going to store it for more than a month.


when tire companies are in he business of selling tires, I wonder why we believe them?


Normally I'd agree with that logic, but when it comes to safety devices such as tires I tend to err on the safe side, and follow manufacturer recommendations.

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