Tire Covers - Evidence or just belief?
Whenever I find parked motorhomes, I find some of them with tire covers, presumably to protect the tires from the sun. Now, off the top of my head this sounds like one of those "common sense" thing...
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et2 wrote:
But a little common sense and reasoning tells me it's worth covering them up.
SoundGuy wrote:
... but it's MUCH cheaper to use a piece of Reflectix rather than vinyl tire covers that cost WAY too much and will only deteriorate themselves over time.
fj12ryder wrote:
Looks like a decent idea, but how do you keep the wind from getting behind it and making it disappear? I've had regular wheel covers, not the strap-on kind, blown off.
Unlike vinyl tire covers Reflectix has "body" so tucked up into the wheelwell and folded over the top of the tires, with shock cord running behind the tires, there's no way it can blow off ... never an issue. For reference, my trailer has 14" tires and the Reflectix panel I use measures 67" long x 29" high. When not in use it rolls up into a tube 5" in diameter, weighs nothing at all, and the material doesn't deteriorate with exposure to the sun. :)
