How to store tires correctly

1. Mark each tire

Before removing the wheel from the car, be sure to mark each of the tires. The following season, you can easily install them into place and will be able to avoid the premature wear due to uneven tread erasure.

Label the tire marker, chalk and glue them stickers, pointing to some of the wheels they were. For example, the "PL" - left front, "PP" - right back, and so on. If you use special cases to store, then they usually already have the appropriate labels. In this case, the main thing - do not confuse them.

2. Clean tire from dirt

Whether you are going to keep the tires on the drive or without - data should always be put in order. And it is not in perfectionism, and that the lasting impact of the abrasive particles from the dirt stuck stones and other foreign objects damage the protector and accelerates aging rubber.

Take a rough brush and rinse all dust, salt and other residues inside the tread grooves accumulated dirt. Inspect tire surface for deep cuts and cracks. Remove the jammed screws, nails and stones.

After water treatments dry tires to all the moisture has completely evaporated. Otherwise, the tire may be formed moldAnd on the rim - corrosion centers.

Do not forget to restore the label if they are washed away!

3. Place the tire covers

To preserve the desirable properties of the rubber tire shelter to protect them from sunlight and humidity. As the covers are suitable as special options purchased, and conventional plastic bags or food film.

Textile covers made of breathable material, which provides air circulation. If you have those, you just put them on the bus. By building the makeshift defense of the packages or food film, leave a small space to provide natural ventilation. Otherwise, condensation may form inside, which hurt the tires.

4. Choose a location

Keep tires which can not be got. according to GOSTGOST P 54266-2010. Pneumatic tires. Packaging, transportation and storageGoverning the treatment of all types of tires, they must be stored in rooms with temperature from -30 to +35 ° C and humidity between 50-60%. As well away from heating appliances, fuels and lubricants and producing ozone devices.

rubber main enemy in a domestic environment - ultraviolet radiation. The sun's rays desiccate the material, which reduces its elasticity and leads to cracking. High humidity is also dangerous, but at home is rare. A secure insulation of containers with butter, gasoline, Solvents and other chemistry is not too difficult.

The best option would be a garage, and in the presence of suitable cellar ventilation. Balcony least preferred, but if there is no alternative, at least to reliably protect the tire from the sun.

5. Place the tire in the right position

In addition to the tire storage space, a large role is played by their placement. There are several options for the correct location of the bus, depending on whether or not they are on the disk.

Tires with wheels

Wheel assembly to fold flat surface stacked one on another. Place any objects on them, using as a table or stand, you can not. If space is tight - the wheels hang along the walls, catching hooks of the disk rim. In both cases, the tires lowered by reducing the pressure to about half.

Tires without disks

If the second set of disks you do not and you keep the tires in razbortirovannom state, then stack them vertically, arranged in one row. In this case, once a month or so do not forget to rotate each tire with a quarter-turn to get me a foothold and to prevent deformation.

Checklist proper storage of tires

1. Note installation location of each tire.
2. Clean the tires from dirt and pebbles.
3. Place the tire blankets or nestle film.
4. Find a secure place against UV.
5. Wheels fold stack assembly or hang, tires - put upright.