07Carrera

Ready for winter storage up here in northern Wisconsin. No more dreaded tire flat spots.
These ramps are available on Amazon, 4 for $165.00, (I'm not affiliated).


Kirby C. Rice Lake, WI

Bomar Shelby

Is this the first winter you have used them or are you speaking from experience? There are several different brands/types being sold. How did you select these? They are more reasonably priced than some others.

dbv1

What's wrong with just pumping them up to 50 psi?

Robocop305

I have also seeing people use thick rubber pads bought at Home Depot. I think they come in large sheets and you cut them to size.

mcfisticuffs

I use the same idea, not sure if they're the same brand, but they're hard foam tire cradles. They work great.

07Carrera

Bomar:
This is the first year I'm using these. As for competitive price you'll have to check the Internet.
If you want to go cheap, just use 2" thick Styrofoam blocks. The only problem is you have to
jack up each tire and the Styrofoam sticks to the rubber.

dbv1:
I've tried 50psi in the tires for storage in past winters with poor results.

Nova997

Besides pumping them up to 50 psi I put a door mat ($1.88 each at Walmart) under each tire with no issue.

19VFB19

+1 on the mats.
-5 on the angled parking.
Sorry... its my OCD giving the score.

Nova997

I park that way (during the winter only) so the snow blower has clear access getting into and out of the garage.

19VFB19

Ok ok
+1 mats
+1 Ariens snow blower
-5 my OCD

mjsporsche

Pump them up and forget about the rest of the other stuff. Unlikely the tires will flat spot.

patriot993

Rookie question - can I just roll my car (manual transmission - just push ii manually) every week or so?

Bomar Shelby

Well, I know it says 50 psi max on the tire but I figured that was for driving and it is just sitting so I inflated to 65 psi. Anyone have any experience with that?
If you research this thread various ways you will find the opinions are rampant with very little empirical evidence of what actually works to prevent flat spotting and all kinds of experience with things that actually do not work including piles of carpet, various and sundry rubber mats, cardboard, etc., etc.
Somebody with real world experience kindly weigh in with what works.

mjsporsche

My experience in storing my Carreras for 4-5 months is to just inflate the tires to 44 lbs I take it out end of March for some exercise and no flat spots on my Michelins. Cannot comment about other brands.

user 72902

Been using TireCradle for 15+ years and never had a temporary or permanent flat spot.