Tire covers......why?
OK, I'm a newbie. I searched the history and found a lot of comments about tire covers, but no reason for tire covers. Why do i want tire covers? the sun is on the tires of everything I own and hav...
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Home Skillet wrote:
Keeps the sun's UV rays off the tires.
Tire compounds are different than 65 years ago.
Actually no. they do not (As a rule) do that great a job of blocking UV rays.
Looks mostly. Though I used tire covers (till they got too old) as projection screens at Christmas .
But UV does a fair job of passing right through 'em.
They look nice though.
A little bit about tires.. They contain oils that do protect them from UV and the flexing as you drive brings these oils to the surfact... Sitting for months on end... NOT GOOD.
