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Originally Posted by slow
From page 13 of the Goodyear RV Tire & Care Guide: ( http://www.goodyearrvtires.com/pdfs/tire-care-guide.pdf)
"Storing your vehicle properly helps protect your tires.
• Keep your vehicle in a cool, dry storage area out of direct sunlight and UV rays.
• Unload your vehicle so that minimum weight is on the tires.
• Inflate your tires to recommended operation pressure plus 25%, but don’t exceed the rim manufacturer’s inflation capacity.
• Thoroughly clean your tires with soap and water before storing them to remove any oils that may have accumulated from the road.
• Move your vehicle at least every three months to help prevent cracking and flat-spotting, but avoid moving it during extremely cold weather.
• Place your vehicle on blocks to remove the weight from the tires. If the vehicle can’t be put on blocks, make sure the storage surface is firm, clean, well-drained and reasonably level."
I found the +25% pressure an interesting recommendation. |
I find that "+25% pressure" an interesting mothball concept also. Wonder what the reasoning is? If the tires are unloaded anyway, I would have more likely thought reducing pressure would be reasonable.
Furthermore, the manufacturers unloading suggestion seems to validate the OP's concern with, "Lifting TT Up & Off Tires".
Cleaning is also a new one on me, but may make sense if the same accumulated dirty scum on body panels has anything to do with oils present on, or near, highways.
Wes
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