So, to buy tyre savers or not?

[SalB]

Are tyre savers worth bothering with when putting the van to bed for a few weeks? (On hard standing.) If so, any recommendations/suggestions gratefully received.

 

Thanking you lovely people in advance.

 

 

[Mickt]

I just move mine about every now and again ,to stop getting a flat spot on tyres

[Derek Uzzell]

This 2012 forum thread was about ‘tyre-savers’ . (The links within the thread are now dead.)

 

https://forums.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/Motorhomes/Hints-and-Tips/Shaped-wheel-chocks-for-storage/28777/

 

Milenco tyre-savers were mentioned in this 2020 thread

 

https://forums.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/Motorhomes/Motorhome-Matters/Covo-storage/54959/

 

but there are alternatives

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Milenco-3025-tyre-saver/dp/B005D76UI6

 

I started motorcaravanning in 1998 and I’ve never used tyre-savers with any of my three motohomes all of which have been static on tarmac from November through March each year. I inflate the tyres to their maximum recommended pressure (80psi for my Rapido’s tyres) and occasionally move the motorhome a few feet to minimise the chance of flat spots forming on the tyres. So far that hasn’t happened.

 

Tyre-savers tend to be aimed at overwintering caravans

 

https://www.hortoncommon.co.uk/caravan-tyre-savers/

 

rather than motorhomes and, if your motorhome is only going to doze for a few weeks at a time (rather than hibernate like mine) I believe you’d be wasting your money.

 

If you do decide to go down the tyre-saver route, choose products where the concave curve of the tyre-saver’s upper surface is as close as possible a match to the convex curve of your motorhome’s tyres. A tyre-saver with an upper-surface curve designed for smallish caravan wheels will likely dig into the large circumference tyres that have become commonplace on motorhomes.)

[SalB]

Thanks both. The intention is to use the van fairly regularly (restrictions permitting) so won't rush out and buy some just yet!

[Derek Uzzell]

For some comic relief, you might like to browse through this 3-years-old MotorHomeFun forum discussion that asked about problems getting a Fiat front-wheel-drive motorhome OFF tyre-savers. (Front tyres spinning so badly the tyre-savers started to melt!)

 

https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/tyre-savers.165381/

 

I particularly enjoyed the Dec 2 2017 comment from the original poster (Tony50)

 

"Apart from help from Paul and Yvette (ccc) about 14 other posts did not help my request some of you are pretty sad.”

 

In fact, there may be an inevitability in what Tony50 was complaining about. It should be easy enough to drive a 4-wheel motorhome on to a set of 4 tyre-savers, but once the 4 wheels have dropped into the tyre-savers’ ‘cups’, getting the wheels out of the cups may well prove a challenge.