DIY: Store your summer wheels
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DIY: Store your summer wheels
Well its that sucky time of the year when you gotta put the nice shoes away and pull out the crappy stockies or worse for the winter. So just to make sure your summer stuff survives the winter, here's a couple useful pointers.
1. Store them someplace dry, away from heat sources and electric motors (they give off ozone, which is bad for rubber). Unheated garages are fine as long as they're relatively dry.
2. Double bag or saran wrap the wheel to keep the tire from just sitting and aging in the dry winter air. You don't want them to crack.
3. Stack them on their sides (so the sidewalls are on the ground). This prevents flatspotting the tread from them sitting in one place for many months.
Its also a good idea to give them a good wash job, including the back of the rim before you put them away... just make sure they're dry before you bag them up.
When next spring finally comes around, its probably a good idea to bleed some air out, then fill them up... just to give them a chance to expand a little, in case they got any sort of deformities from leaning against something over the winter. Put them back on the car. You may or may not have to re-balance them.
Have a nice day.
1. Store them someplace dry, away from heat sources and electric motors (they give off ozone, which is bad for rubber). Unheated garages are fine as long as they're relatively dry.
2. Double bag or saran wrap the wheel to keep the tire from just sitting and aging in the dry winter air. You don't want them to crack.
3. Stack them on their sides (so the sidewalls are on the ground). This prevents flatspotting the tread from them sitting in one place for many months.
Its also a good idea to give them a good wash job, including the back of the rim before you put them away... just make sure they're dry before you bag them up.
When next spring finally comes around, its probably a good idea to bleed some air out, then fill them up... just to give them a chance to expand a little, in case they got any sort of deformities from leaning against something over the winter. Put them back on the car. You may or may not have to re-balance them.
Have a nice day.
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Rep Power: 0 Yeah I hate this time of the year. But I think I'm going to buy some 15" ADR Concept Pros for the winter. I hate hubcaps, it hurts my body to put them on my car.
It's also a good idea to spray them with a some Armor All or tire dressing. This helps prevent dry rot.
It's also a good idea to spray them with a some Armor All or tire dressing. This helps prevent dry rot.
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Rep Power: 481 Yup. I think I'm going to have to be taking my rims off here probably at the beginning of November. What sucks is that I might have to buy at least one new rim come spring. I hit one of those "speed bump" gap things on the interstate doing like 75+ and put a nice dent in the rim. Also, I've curbed that rim pretty bad trying to swerve from something in the road. I'm definately going to need new tires come next spring. These Hankook Ventus didn't hold up as well as I was hoping.
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Rep Power: 419 Good tips. I'll take off my old wheels and tires. Clean them. Spray them with Armor All. Put them inside plastic bags. Then stack them on their side in a dry place. Then on go the winter duds. 
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Rep Power: 404 yea thanx for the tips, i just hate it when it snows in Los angeles... jk... hahaha, i can leave my summer tires on year round ova here, it never rains...
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What's under the hubcaps needs protection worse than the hubcaps themselves 
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Rep Power: 0 Well, hell will freeze before snow shows itself to Louisiana. I guess that is the only good thing about LA. This a great DIY for northern people though. Even in the south, it would be a good idea to store your second set of wheels, stock steelies, the same way to prevent dry rot and what not.
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Rep Power: 0 Originally posted by Boilermaker1
Damn, snow already? We've got some f'ed up weather here... it was 75 degrees!
Damn, snow already? We've got some f'ed up weather here... it was 75 degrees!
its been a bit nippy of late, no fun at all
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Rep Power: 512 is it really necessary to bag the rims? will the sidewalls crack if i leave them in my unheated garage in the winter w/o the bags?
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