 Welcome to Road Gear Reviews. I'm Mark from RVLove and today we're talking about Adco tire covers. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Road Gear Reviews. Again, this is Mark from RVLove and we're talking about Adco tire covers. It's a fairly simple product but a product that we think is very important for a lot of RVs. When you have your regular passenger car, you generally drive them a lot and you wear out the tires before they get too old. But in RVs it's very common to not put a lot of miles on them and so the exterior of the tire starts to degrade over time largely because of UV exposure but also because of other environmental factors. Tire covers like these can help prolong the life of your tires so spending a few bucks on tire covers can dramatically reduce the amount of money you spend over the long haul on your RV tires. And to give an example of savings, these tire covers might only cost $20 to $40 a pair but the tires on this motorhome we just spent close to $4,000 on these tires so we'd like to protect that investment. Pretty much anytime I'm stopping for more than one night I'm gonna put these tire covers on to help protect my tires. There's a few reasons why I like to put these tire covers on. Their primary purpose is to protect against UV damage. They have vinyl exterior and then they have a flannel or fabric interior to be soft and gentle against the tire. UV exposure can weaken the rubber on the sidewall of a tire which will make it start to crack and fatigue which then can lead to a blowout. A secondary reason I really like having tire covers is because they keep them protected from the sun so that doesn't get as hot either. I like to make a habit of regularly checking my tire pressure before any time I drive the RV and if I didn't have a tire cover on I noticed that the morning the sun will dramatically change the tire pressure because of the heat of the tire. When I have these tire covers on it helps reduce that and so I have a more accurate reading when I'm checking my tire pressure before hitting the road. We've actually bought a couple sets of these ADCO tire covers. When we first bought our motorhome it interestingly came with tire covers but they were the wrong size so we actually bought a first set of ADCO tire covers for that motorhome and we bought the designer series which are tan two-tone because that really matched well with that RV and when we sold that RV nearly four years later we left those tire covers with that motorhome because these tire covers you order them by size. There's a lot of different sizes I think there's five or six different sizes they offer so you need to know the diameter and the tire wheel size of your tires to get the right fit. Getting the right fit is really important. You could get them slightly larger and it'll easily go on but if they go on super easy they'll also be more likely to blow off easy if you had some big win. This grommet on the back of the tire cover is part of a system using a bungee cord with a ball on the end that actually very securely attaches the tire cover to the tire so they'll stay on even in severe winds but to be honest with you in the four years I've had these I hardly ever use those attachments. I almost always just put the cover on and we're having the right size they're a nice firm fit and they rarely blow off even in pretty strong winds. I think that bungee cord system and more securely attaching the cover to your tire would be especially important if you store it but being full-time RVers we're almost always with our RV so if we ever in a big storm where it's usually really easy to go find the tire cover if it did come off but again 95% of the time I don't use that extra security and they stay on pretty darn well. The tire covers we have on this motorhome are the bus size because we have a 22 and a half inch wheel and our tire size is 275 70 or 22 fives there is one size larger and that's OS for oversized and that's generally for bus chassis that run on 24 inch wheels which are rather large. Most RVs will actually run on the size XL not this bus chassis size and then a lot of travel trailers would of course use a smaller wheel size. They also come in a lot of different colors which is nice because you can color coordinate them to your RV because it is something that shows on the outside of your RV. Our first RV as I mentioned earlier we bought the designer series they were two-tone tan which coordinated very well with that RV. This RV we bought simple black covers but they also offer two different colors of white and they offer a camouflage 3D type print and they recently came out with a diamond plate finish which actually is a super heavy duty vinyl and actually looks and feels a bit like diamond plates so if those of you really like that style that's a new option that just became available. I find that these tire covers actually hold up very well they're a good quality product. Our first set we had over three years almost four years on our first set of these. They are warrantied in generally for three years. This set we've only had for about six months but they still look and feel brand new. They're money very well spent in that they protect the more expensive RV tires from damage and as I mentioned I really also like that it keeps the temperature down which then keeps the pressure down so that they're more consistent when measuring them when I'm getting ready to hit the road because if it was artificially high you might think you need to pump up the air in the other tire and then when the tires both start heating up from driving down the road you would actually have an inequality of the air pressure in the tires. We believe that tire covers are really important for any RV but especially one that is outside storage. Now if you have an RV that's stored inside and is rarely used they might not be as much value to you but if you travel full time like us or if your RV is stored outside I think that tire covers are an extremely important addition to those RVs. When you purchase these tire covers they're generally about 20 to $40 per pair and it's important to call out that they are generally sold in pairs because a lot of times you're going to need two pairs for your RV but what's nice about them being sold in pairs is if you have a three-axle RV it's easy to get the exact right amount without having bought too many and if something ever happens to a couple of your tire covers it's easy to replace just to instead of an entire set again. They also have some options where you can get a single cover for example you might have a spare tire on the back of an RV or they have the option to get multi-axle covers so if you have a fifth wheel or a larger travel trailer that has two or three axles you can get special covers to be able to go over all three with just one cover which would of course reduce the number of covers you have to put on when you stop. These are super easy to put on you just slip them over the top of the tire and give it a little firm tug down so that's nice and snug on the tire and they're also super easy to pull off. I usually just grab it towards the top center of the tire and just pull it right off but they do stay on very well even in moderate to even severe wind at times even without the additional bungee cord or other attachment around the back of the tire. I do think that that additional security of having the bungee cord around the back or whatever rear attachment it has I think that would be a great idea to put that on if you're putting it in a storage situation where it's going to be left unattended. Well that's about it pretty simple review today, a relatively simple product. Hope you found this video informative and helpful. If you have any comments or questions please leave those comments or questions in section down below. We'll of course put links in the description for these Adko attire covers. 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