You should drive them around the block every couple of weeks to keep the tires from flat spotting.

 

We'll see

more worried bout my family right now than the cars

 

If you have time to post on this website, you've got time to drive your cars around the block once every two weeks or so. Look at the Northeast and Midwest s2ki forums. People that store their cars for the winter put them up on blocks to save the tires.

 

Right now I have time to do many things since I'm quarantined at HOME

I don't care to go drive right now RB sorry if it seems neglect of the cars but hey thats how I feel

They will be driven in good time.

 

OK.

 

I posted this last night but then deleted it for fear of your getting
butt think I'll pass it on regardless

SO I was chattin@RT yesterday & mentioned your concern of the tires and he said NOT to be concerned
he has several vehicles that have been sitting for a month as well, he said thats more true in older cars not my new ones.
Think of all the cars sitting on lots & on ships coming to USA just a couple examples.
Mearly an fyi for ya not a

 

Then I actually GOOGLED it and it appears that if indeed they should happen to acquire a flattened spot that after driving them again they will be fine.

 

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiret....jsp?techid=42

Tire flat-spotting would be most noticeable when beginning to drive a vehicle that has been stored incorrectly (with the weight of the vehicle pressing down through the tires to the ground). When storing a vehicle for more than a few weeks, it is best to drive the vehicle until it is thoroughly warmed up and then immediately put it up on "blocks" after arriving at the storage location. Doing this takes the load off of the tires completely. Not doing this on a vehicle that will be parked for a few months runs the risk of permanently flat-spotting the tires.

Low aspect ratio tires have less sidewall flex due to their short sidewalls and much of their load carrying capacity is absorbed by the deflection of their wide footprints. The tread compounds and firm, nylon reinforced internal constructions used on high performance and high speed-rated tires are more susceptible to flatspotting.

Heavy loads and too little air pressure in the tires (underinflation) will allow them to deflect more where they come into contact with the ground. This allows even more deflection, increasing the severity of the flatspotting.

Cold ambient temperatures make rubber compounds stiffer, increasing their tendency to flatspot.

The longer tires remain stationary, the better they remember the position in which they were last parked. Tires on vehicles stored on the ground for many months can be permanently flat-spotted.

 

Hope your sterilizing your car after the neighbor drives it.


Mine will stay put

 

I'll sani wipe the steering wheel, shift lever, and door handle. However, the car will then sit for two weeks, so any COVID-10 germs will be dead. Our next door neighbor, Joe, is a really good guy. I think you met him at one of our post Angeles Crest run backyard BBQs.