Car cover / storage in general / lots of questions

[ccarpen at earthlink.net (Cris Carpenter)]

To clarify: I have seen this happen, but only with lousy tires. And I've 
seen structurally defective tires go out of round through normal use too. 
Heck, working as a mechanic, I condemned brand new tires because I could 
see as I was balancing them that they were going to eventually grow lumps. 
But this too seldom happened with better tire brands and models. My 81 has 
had various high-performance models of both Michelin and Dunlop tires over 
the years, and in spite of sitting for several months at a time in both hot 
and cold weather, they never grew out of round as a result.
Cris

At 10:23 PM 7/3/2004, David Utley wrote:


>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Cris Carpenter
>Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 2:30 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Car cover / storage in general / lots of questions
>
>Putting cars up on blocks has not really shown to provide any benefits,
>especially for modern cars. In the old days they would do it to keep the
>tires round and keep the springs from sagging, but modern technologies in
>both of these areas make them non-issues.
>
>I disagree.  I have had issues with tires being out of round.  They did
>eventually get much better, but there is still a bit of wobble.  The tires
>were fairly new (about a year old).  This was about a year and a half ago,
>it sat for two months.  I think that there are too many variables to make
>the statement that it is not necessary.  It would depend on lots of things
>like if it were indoors or outdoors, the temperatures the car would see, how
>much weight there is on the tire (my fronts seem to be the worser of the
>set), etc., blah de blah...  I do not think the springs would be affected at
>all, unless you had the sucker weighted down with several engines...  :)
>
>Cheers,
>   David