What's the best way to preserve tires?

[Rally_cat]

I live at 3,438 ft and 1000 kms from the sea. I'm wondering what I should be doing to preserve my hoard of retro tires. I recently noticed that my Propulsion is starting to crack around the treads which has me very concerned.

I have a warm misting humidifier (which isn't great) and several bowls of water next to air registers that I keep topped up. Is there a product available that is recommended to apply to tires to keep this from happening? All I find on the internet is people saying not to use armorall (which is an automotive dash protectant) but not actually giving any recommendation on what to use. Thanks

 

[andrewl]

I've heard of people wrapping them in plastic food wrap with lots of success. Maybe that's worth a try?

 

[LesterOfPuppets]

Probably best in a cool dark place, so in a room with registers would be a bad place. I've also heard to keep away from electrical motors and the like since they produce ozone.

 

[Groundoggy]

Heard water based rubber protectants are OK for use and that temperature change is probably the biggest issue. In a room with high humidity you might start to wonder about rot over the long term. Cool and dry would seem preferable.

Something like this would probably work:

http://www.autogeek.net/four-star-ultim ... t-gel.html