Rinty

I'm finishing off my garage extension and want to get a wall mount tire rack like Tire Racks sells:

http://www.tirerack.com/accessories/detail.jsp?ID=164

Does anyone know of a Canadian source for these, or something similar? I like Tire Rack, but I'm getting bugged by UPS charges.

Rooney

Hyloft is the manufacture, but not avail in Canada.

StanThePorscheFan

Here you go:
http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brows....jsp?locale=en

Rinty

Thanks C4; that looks good.

Rinty

Update on the Canadian Tire tire rack: it doesn't work.

The end frames are supposed to be mounted on wall studs, 48" apart, i.e. three 16" stud widths. The problem is that the cross bars are 50" long.

So this rack would only work on an open wall that has no drywall, where you could nail a two by four doubler or tripler to your existing studs, to mount the end frames. I got the last rack in the store, and noticed that my rack was already a returned item.

Finding this out cost me the better part of a fine afternoon, when I could have been going out for a last drive, before the car goes into winter storage.

Torontoworker

The only option would be to screw in a frame on the outside of the drywall that does match up with the studs and then mount the tire rack with lag bolts to this frame. More work and doesn't look as nice but it is a solution to returning it.

aj986s

This is aluminum and made for trailers, but I think still a decent value for storing 8 or more tires (depending upon size):



http://www.pitproducts.com/8sptira.html

Can also be folded up against the wall. For a garage installation, probably wouldn't need the hardware for running the pipe thru the the wheels.

Crazy Canuck

http://www.martinsindustries.com/

Imo000

I made my own using leftover 2X4s. Only took 2 hrs to make and depending on the width of the tires it holds 9-10 tires. If you do this, you can make it as wide as you need to.

You can see sort of see it at the top corner of this pics.

Rinty

Thanks, guys. I'm going to think on this a bit. After I got the frames up, I really didn't like how much room they take up.

aj986s

Here's another alternative using a platform w/pulleys:


http://www.brookstone.com/HEAVY-LIFT...:referralID=NA

There are others on the market; this happened to be the first one in my Google.

force4rmr

I have the CDN Tire rack and have used it in my past 2 houses....it definately mounts at 48" centers. The red vertical end brackets have to be mounted with their mounting plates toward the center of the rack. Also the chrome tubular bars are 2 piece with one half a little longer than the other so you have to be careful when you puy them together to make sure you pair one short with one longer bar for each section. Great rack, and usually on sale at least 2-3 times per year...I think I paid $89 or $99, but it does take up alot of wall space.

Bahama

I also just recently picked up 3 of the Cdn Tire wall mounts (yet to install) on sale for $77 each (reg $130). I believe Princess Auto, in their last flyer, has them on sale as well (looks very similar to the first photo on this thread). On sale for $66 regular $129

Rinty

Thanks Don: so that's the issue with my kit, then: all 6 bars are the same length.

Bahama: you'll want to check this out before you start drilling.

Canadian Tire has a 90 day return policy.

oups59

I bought 2 last year from CT. They were on sale -50%. Installed them with no issues.