When not in use, is it best to park our Georgie Boy Pursuit using the levelers to keep the tires off the driveway or to simply allow it to sit on its tires? We use it approximately every other month. The tires are less than 1 year old if that matters. We have tire covers and often do not bother to use them. Would that be worthwhile as well? Thanks

You can do it either way. There's a few zillion RVs stored all over this planet on the tires, on the jacks, on both (as we do) and, as long as I've been on this and many other RV forums, I've NEVER seen proof that storing an RV on the tires or the Jacks, has any detrimental effects. I store ours on the jacks and the tires mainly due to the fact that I like it level. It does take some of the load off the tires and the air bag system so, that's kind of a good thing to me. Some will say to put all kinds of things under the tires if they sit on concrete. Well, that's kind of an old wives tale too. Again, there's never, EVER been any proof that storing them directly on concrete presents any danger to the tires. Again, zillions are parked on the street, concrete driveways, storage facilities, garages and more, all over the place and, the owners return to them and fire them up and take off on trips. Your choice.Scott

We store our rig in an enclosed steel building and we do use the levelers. The only reason is that IF there is a little varmit that got in the building, it will climb up the levelers somehow and get in. Don't know how they do it, but it will only happen with levelers down. That's our crazy reason.

We had jacks AND air leveling in our previous coach. I always stored the motorhome with the jacks down. I used air leveling when traveling to RV Parks unless it was a concrete pad, then I might use the jacks. We could not tell any difference if using jacks or air bags while in the coach. We pushed the front jack through a couple of black-top surfaces.The new coach has air leveling only. I really like air leveling best if given the choice. If I were you, I would probably use the jacks when storing.MM.

I'm guessing that the people that full time don't retract their levelers very often. I always store our coach with the levelers down. The cylinder that you see is not what rubs on the seal so a little dirt doesn't hurt anything.

levelers up ,and use those covers, good care of your tires will get you longer tire life. levelers down would have constant pressure on the hyd system and could have one leak.

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May 10, 2016
You can do it either way. There's a few zillion RVs stored all over this planet on the tires, on the jacks, on both (as we do) and, as long as I've been on this and many other RV forums, I've NEVER seen proof that storing an RV on the tires or the Jacks, has any detrimental effects.

I store ours on the jacks and the tires mainly due to the fact that I like it level. It does take some of the load off the tires and the air bag system so, that's kind of a good thing to me. Some will say to put all kinds of things under the tires if they sit on concrete.

Well, that's kind of an old wives tale too. Again, there's never, EVER been any proof that storing them directly on concrete presents any danger to the tires. Again, zillions are parked on the street, concrete driveways, storage facilities, garages and more, all over the place and, the owners return to them and fire them up and take off on trips. Your choice.
Scott

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