Tire covers......why?

While tire failure during a trip is a concern for numerous reasons, I would suggest that most tire failures are due to road hazards, under inflation and running into and over curbs. Overloading, age and not protecting the tires from the sun would be a distant fourth or fifth.

In addition to tire covers.
It's good to keep the tires off the asphalt, when parked for extended periods.
When parked at home for a long time, I had 4 pieces of plywood to park on.
That's what I was told so that's what we did.

OK then, where is the best place to buy the cover, covers?

Not if you use Tire Cover Covers over them

Executive wrote:
They're all about the same.

The cheaper ones with the thin plastic covering will crack and break quickly.

3 dog nights wrote:
OK, OP here, If I follow the consensus that I need to get covers, where is the best place to get them?

Anywhere but Camping World...:B.

Just kidding.. Tire covers can be most anything, even cardboard if you want. If you are going with the 'look' do a google search and get the best price on them. They're all about the same. A word of caution though---the more expensive ones have batting on the inside to 'protect' the tire. Nice to feel, nice to put on, MICE and RODENTS love the batting for nesting....choose your poison....Dennis

OK, OP here, If I follow the consensus that I need to get covers, where is the best place to get them?

At work, we have a 1-ton dually that is used as a work-horse to move heavy equipment trailers and generators. It's a 2014 model and only has about 8K miles on it. Obviously, it sits the majority of the time. We just replaced the tires due to weather-checking/sidewall-cracking from sitting int he sunlight. The same brand/model/size tires on a daily-use vehicle are still looking great with nearly 35K miles on them. Sunlight will KILL a set of tires if they don't get used often, as in the case of most RVs. As a result of having to pay out $1,200 for a replacement set of tires on that truck, I bought tire covers for ALL of my trailers and equipment that sit in the sun for longer periods of time.

So yeah, I'd say the covers are worth it. Covers cost between $30-$60/set of 4.....tires, around $400 each.....not to mention reducing the chance of a blowout as a result of cracked sidewalls.....

You average car tire wears out before the UV can do them in. It also helps that the flexing while driving moves the oils to the surface.

The end result is your average car tire is worn out in 3-4 years long before UV damage can take out the side walls.

RV's often sit for months at a time. It's not unusual for a tire to be 6-8yrs old with only a few thousand miles on it and full tread depth. So failure method is aging out which is heavily impacted by UV damage. If you can stop the UV damage, you can increase the life.

I wouldn't bother if only stopping for a night or two but if it's going to be in storage for a month or more, certainly makes sense.

over the years i have seen many tires with side wall cracking, and most of the time its only the outside face, and not the inner side, as far as agricultural tires even if they have major checking in the side walls, how fast are they really going, its a big difference blowing a tire at 65 MPH as apposed to loosing a tire plowing a field. I put tubes in one truck that the tires where leaking so bad through the side walls, but it was only a plow truck to clear the parking lot in the winter, so we really didn't worry about loosing a tire. Steering, tires and brakes are the most important things to keep you in control any one will cause major problems and a scary ride... tire covers do help..