When you live in a mild or warm climate, you should feel comfortable driving around with all-season tires throughout the year. But, you may be moving to a cold climate, which is where you will benefit from investing in winter tires that provide you with safer driving on the road.
This means that you will want to keep two sets of tires in your possession. If you are moving into an apartment, condo, or single-family home without a garage, you may not have a lot of storage. Investing in tire storage is an excellent idea because it will make it easy to own two tire sets.
1. Increase Road Safety
Although you can get by with all-season tires during the winter and in the snow, you will need to be extra careful on the road. If you do not want to worry about causing an accident or colliding with a guardrail or parked vehicle while driving in poor conditions, you will benefit from investing in winter tires and storing your all-season tires in a storage unit until winter comes to an end.
2. Minimize Costs
While you could buy winter tires, use them for several months, and then sell them when you are ready to put all-season tires on, you will minimize your total costs by renting a storage unit. You can get a small storage unit that provides you with a reliable place to store tires at a low rate.
To make sure that you do not spend more than you must on storage, you should contact several storage facilities in your local area to determine who has the smallest storage unit. In many cases, you should be able to choose the smallest storage unit and fit all four tires without a problem.
3. Avoid Clutter
Although you could reserve a space in your home to store these tires, you may not want to dedicate a large area for tires. Also, the area surrounding the tires could pick up a rubbery smell. The easiest solution is to rely on a storage unit to prevent cluttering up your home.
4. Tire Preservation
Storing tires outdoors or where they are exposed to sunlight will reduce their lifespan. A storage unit provides you with a great storage solution by protecting the tires that are inside. You may want to get a climate-controlled space to minimize the chance of temperature and humidity.
Investing in self-storage will help you feel confident about owning two sets of tires for winter safety.
Having lived in a 1,200-square-foot home with my husband and two children for many years, I've learned a lot about storage and maximizing space along the way. Once a year, we do a "purge" of each room in our home to get rid of unnecessary clutter. We then hold an annual garage sale, where we're able to make money selling this "stuff" for our yearly vacation. For extra space, we also have a small storage unit that we use to store seasonal things, such as Christmas decorations and bikes. If you've been looking for tips on maximizing storage in even the smallest of spaces, I hope the information on my blog will be useful to you!