Many have suggested placing thick carpet or styrofoam under their tires during winter storage as a precaution for flat spotting. Has anyone used styrofoam instead of carpet? I'd rather use it a) because I already have some extra laying around and b) it seems like a better (thicker & stronger) padding. I'm curious if there is any strange chemical reaction between the rubber and the styrofoam. The last thing I want to do in the spring is pull out of the garage with styrofoam fused to my tires via some weird chemical reaction.

 

For storage, put the car up on jack stands and avoid the whole problem.

 

my suggestion would be to drive it year-round.....

but hey, like i said, that's just me.....

 

Just pump your tires up to max psi. that should solve the problem. And roll it to a new patch every week just to be safe.

 

No way, Jose! I want this car to last forever. Besides, you guys get to drive on frozen snow pack up there. Down here we have to deal with slop. It snows...they dump 4 billion tons of salt on the road...then for the next week we get to drive in this melted salt soup and use 40 gallons of windshield washer fluid in order to drive through the constant tire spit. God, I just love winter...

 

CoralDoc is on top of it.

It takes a load off of the suspension also.

 

I don't see how removing the load from the suspension componets that they were designed to support and reversing that into being uncompressed...


Probably doesnt matter one way or another

 

What happens to shocks when they are at the end of their travel... and the weight of the suspension is hanging?

 

A car's suspension is designed to be "loaded". ie. support the weight of the car. Having it "unloaded" and just hanging there is not a natural state of being. If you're trying to "save" the suspension by "hanging" it for a few months each year, I think it's an unnecessary waste of time. I seriously doubt that a car's "hung" suspension parts will last any more miles than ones that are driven year round or just sits loaded while being stored. But if it's makes for better nights' sleep (for the owner), then go ahead.

 

Styrofoam or carpet? To settle the debate about "hanging my car from the rafters"...I'm not. I'm not that anal about this. Carpet or styrofoam will be fine for me thanks. In fact, I'm not even sure that is necessary but I figured, what the hell...cost a couple bucks. If it helps...