Our travel trailer will be stored outside for the winter in a storage facility as we don't have the room at home or the neighborhood for it. My question is in regards to tire pressure. It will be sitting for 4 or 5 months, should I go into storage with the tires set at their recommended pressure? Will they get flat spots sitting that long in the cold? Should I use the stabilizers to take a small amount of weight off the tires (without jacking up and damaging frame)? Thanks for any input or advice.
Winter storage question
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The tire manufacturers recommend increasing pressure to max load, or even 10% above the max load pressure. And also using jacks or blocks to take the weight off.
Your stabilizers won't lift much - they aren't designed to carry much weight. The best practice would be to jack the trailer frame using a hydraulic or scissor jack and place some blocks under it once its lifted a bit.
I don't know that any of this is of great importance, but that's what the tire manufacturers like Michelin and Goodyear say in their RV tire guides.
http://www.michelinrvtires.com/reference-materials/tire-guide-warranties-and-bulletins/
Your stabilizers won't lift much - they aren't designed to carry much weight. The best practice would be to jack the trailer frame using a hydraulic or scissor jack and place some blocks under it once its lifted a bit.
I don't know that any of this is of great importance, but that's what the tire manufacturers like Michelin and Goodyear say in their RV tire guides.
http://www.michelinrvtires.com/reference-materials/tire-guide-warranties-and-bulletins/
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As of today, our motorhome is winterized and will sit until the end of March. I backed it into the driveway and just parked it - the same as we've been doing with various campers for the last twenty-something years.
