schmuckingham Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I have a 6 03/04 Cobra wheels sitting in my garage with tires attached to all of them and no plans ( or car) to use them on. Anyhting I should dress them with so they dont dry up and blow away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Borgen Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 deflate, store covered in garbage bags ...preferably in your basement where they won t tget too cold....especially for race tires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojoe Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 deflate, store covered in garbage bags ...preferably in your basement where they won t tget too cold....especially for race tires Yup. I haven't deflated mine. but, I have 10 tires, 4 are mounted, that I have had in the garage or basement for 2 years. I just looked at them because I'm moving them to a storage unit tomorrow. they are fine and I would put them on a car now if needed. They are 2, drag radial's, 4 R compounds, 2 spare rear tire's, and 2 tires for autoX. Pretty good variety to care for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 So it's going to be bad to store my winter wheels and tires that are mounted together in my garage attic until November? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schmuckingham Posted April 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 2 of them have drag radials on them, other 4 have regular street tires Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianZ06 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I have my set of original Z06 tires and wheels that have been stored in a garage and plastic over them for probably 7-8 years. They look like new still with 5000 miles on them but I'm not sure I would want to use them. The hot sun is probably a stored tires worst enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99FLHRCI Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 FWIW, I work at a test facility run by NHTSA/DOT. Any tire with a DOT # dating it as older then 5 years is disposed of. We are not allowed to use them for anything, be it limit testing or driving out to a test facility to watch a test be performed (on property included). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TurboRust Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Sun/heat Salt/cold Tire shine abuse Are the top 3 thing that cause tires to dryrot or be unsafe... we don't sell them, but here at work the basement is never warmer than 65 or so, and is run a 10yr old tire from down there.. for most of us that will wear out tires in 3-4 years max its not an issue, keep them .out of direct sunlight, Ben is try to keep them out of your attic unless it stays abnormally cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojoe Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 So it's going to be bad to store my winter wheels and tires that are mounted together in my garage attic until November? Not seeing where anyone is saying that. Why do you ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceGhost Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Just wondering if 6 months in a hot attic will really be bad for the tires? I bet they don't last but 3 Winters though, and have already been through one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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