Tire Preservation

[goodkid]

For winter storage, you park the car on carpet squares, foam (blue) board, or what? Any preferred solutions out there?

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[ForTehNguyen]

could go even further and put it on 4 jack stands

or in my garage. I can keep your car snow/salt free and keep the fluids circulated

 

[jasonstang]

Just take her out when the roads are dry.
I've never had flat spots due to storage. Tires that flat spot will do that just after 1-2 days not driving.

 

[tasman]

some people over inflate the tires to like 50 psi and put on carpet squares or tire keepers or some such.. I have always just parked mine on the concrete with normal air pressure and never had flat spots. YMMV

 

[GTA Mustang]

Someone once said putting the car on jack stands for a long period of time may not be good for the shocks, because they will stay in maximum extended positions all that time. Not sure how true that is.

May be put the car on thick foam sheets - like those used for building insulation - to spread out the pressure points a little bit?

I will put my car on wheel dollies so I can push it into tight spots sideways. I will put thick foam sheet under the wheels while doing so.

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[xt6wagon]

I'd not worry about it unless its going to be years between times you drive it.

 

[jasonstang]

I'd not worry about it unless its going to be years between times you drive it.

Besides it's not like these tires are gonna last more than a year or two.

 

[nastang87xx]

Besides it's not like these tires are gonna last more than a year or two.

If you're storing the car and only driving it say 7 or so months out of the year, or course they'll last longer than that. Unless someone is really driving a lot. I put 9000ish miles on my current car and drive all year round. So I want to preserve my tires too because that 9000 is just going to get smaller.

 

[gravedgr]

If you're storing the car and only driving it say 7 or so months out of the year, or course they'll last longer than that. Unless someone is really driving a lot. I put 9000ish miles on my current car and drive all year round. So I want to preserve my tires too because that 9000 is just going to get smaller.

The first set of rears on my C63 lasted about 2,000 miles if I recall. They got changed with the first oil change.

 

[mustang_lurkers]

I put my GT350 on a set of race ramps flat stoppers an it is in my garage inside an inflated car capsule for the winter. I drove it from the dealership to get gas an put it in the garage for the winter.

 

[Hack]

I put the snow tires on. It really helps to keep the summer tires from flat spotting.

 

[Bullitt2065]

I overinflate my tires by just a few pounds and call it a day. I've never had issues with flat spotting, or anything for that matter - and my car doesn't get touched from November to March...

 

[jasonstang]

If you're storing the car and only driving it say 7 or so months out of the year, or course they'll last longer than that. Unless someone is really driving a lot. I put 9000ish miles on my current car and drive all year round. So I want to preserve my tires too because that 9000 is just going to get smaller.

I don't know what tires you have right now but the GT350 has 140 rated super soft tires and given the amount of power they have, these tires won't last more than 10000 miles driving normally. If you do track days, expect them to last less.

 

[ohtobbad]

For tire preservation, don't do this LOL
http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39806

 

[nastang87xx]

I don't know what tires you have right now but the GT350 has 140 rated super soft tires and given the amount of power they have, these tires won't last more than 10000 miles driving normally. If you do track days, expect them to last less.

Base cars have MPSS's and are 300. SC2's are 180.

Unless you have pics of tirewalls with different UTQG's, I won't believe otherwise.

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