01031 Folding Adjustable TireLoft

Setup was easy, took a few tries to get the adjustment bars sizes correctly for my tires but they rest nicely now. I weighed these snow tires at ~70 lbs each before ordering. This would max out many other wall mount tire racks. Glad I ordered this one, feels totally solid and secure. There were some scratches on the finish but let's be honest... I'm not struttin' this rack around town, it's not in the elements inside my garage and it's used to rack my seasonal tires. Still 5 stars all the way. The bars they use are nice and hefty by the way. The welds and build quality are solid all around. The tires I have up there right now are 265 70 17 winter wheels and tires and my 275 65 18 all season should fit up there just the same. You can see that I mounted mine really high. To make it easier to get the 70 lb wheels and tires up that high I used a cheap block and tackle. Super-Handy Heavy-Duty 4,000 LB Capacity Rope Hoist -- it's a really cheap solution, the pulleys have more friction than I'd like... again, not the best but I do this twice a year. Just make sure you use a way over powered hook properly anchored to a beam on the ceiling. The one I'm using (from Home Depot) is rated for 375 lbs... not designed for overhead lifting but the job didn't stress the setup at all. In fact my 5 yo daughter was able to hoist it. Finally my wheels and tires are up and out of the way!! Thank you! ...looks cool too.

TL;DR: Great rack for the money with some manipulation and different hardware. Drill 3/16" pilot holes. Do not use an impact to drive the bolts into your studs; you will risk shearing them. Use a ratchet/socket combo. Easy to assemble and install assuming you have the proper tools. To answer one of the biggest questions regarding tires hitting the wall: they do not. But I guess it also depends on your size tires. The wheel/tire combo I personally have on it are the factory 18" wheels from a 2018 Subaru WRX Limited with the OEM summer Dunlop 245/40R18 tires. As seen in one of my photos, there is approximately 1/2" rear wall clearance. As for the included hardware, I did not use their 3" lag bolts. I spent the extra money on 6 3/16"x4" stainless lag bolts with 12 matching washers which were approximately $20 at Lowes. I used 2 washers per bolt; 1 on the head of the bolt and 1 in between the rack and wall. These seem much more durable than the ones that came with the rack. Cheap piece of mind. As for overall quality, I'm sure there are better made racks out there for more money. The main 'gripe' I have with this rack is the inconsistency of the folding arms. When both are fully extended, the front of the rack is not 100% level. However, I can assure that the main supports that bolt to the wall are perfectly plumb and level relative to each other. I used a laser mounted level and a spirit level to confirm. The problem lies within one of the articulated arm bolt holes. The hole, either on the right or left arm, was drilled either a tad too high or too low - depending on which way you look at it. (The right side sags a tad too low or the left sits a bit too high.) To remedy this, I drilled out the right arm hole a bit larger to make room for adjustment and then re-tightened. I do not plan on folding this rack so I'm not concerned about the folding joints being tight. My OCD got the better part of me since I wasn't able to perfectly center the rack in between my garage windows because of stud location. But it worked out for the better since my garage door track would have gotten in the way anyway. Mine is mounted 78" from the floor to the bottom of the main arms to ensure adequate clearance of my big head. There is approximately 8" of clearance from the top of the tires to the ceiling.

I bought this tire rack to keep a set of snow tires for my Nissan Titan off the garage floor. The packaging was beat up, but everything inside was undamaged and extraordinarily well-wrapped in foam. Seriously, I gave up unwinding the foam and hacked through it with a razor blade. If you are the kind of person who thinks "I'll just wing it" when you open a box of parts, as am I, then this may serve as a cautionary tale of thinking twice before drilling holes. Anyways, I carefully located three studs, drew a leveled line, and marked and drilled the appropriate holes. Then I brought the mounting bracket up and discovered that the holes in the bracket were not drilled along straight lines or vertical centers. So use the bracket pieces to determine your hole locations if you do not want extra holes in your studs. Also, the lag screws I received were a size larger than the ones referenced in the instructions. I don't remember exactly, but I think the instructions referenced 3/8" but the bolt heads were 7/16". So if you do not wish to precariously balance yourself on a ladder with a drill, an unwieldy piece of steel, and a lag bolt, only to discover you have to climb down again and get the right socket, might want to test fit on the ground. I finally got the brackets installed and level. I assembled the actual tire holder on the ground, and test fit the tires to get an idea of how wide it would need to be. Even on the ground, the rack looked a lot better than a pile of tires, and kept things well corralled. I realized that I could insert the entire assembled stand into the brackets, but it was a little unwieldy to get up the ladder and into the mounts. Once in the mounts, however, it was fairly sturdy and easy enough to adjust while empty. I had some concerns about the strength of the tire carrier, but this thing is pretty stout. It easily supported my 220 lbs of pure muscle as I did 12 one-armed chin-ups on the bar. Or, more accurately, it supported 220 lbs of wriggling, sweaty, middle-aged white man trying desperately to hold on to the bar until my feet came back into contact with the ladder. So it is pretty stout. The most important thing about installing the rack is to think things through. I loved the idea of using the space over my garage door to mount the rack, all the way until I had to carry my first truck tire up a ladder, and then try to leverage it into the rack while eight feet in the air. Then I realized that this was a very bad idea for me. When I change out my tires, I will probably relocate the mounting brackets to about chest height along a wall. Maybe shove the lawnmower under it or something. Final note of just random awesome: If you have a Nissan Titan with the Util-I-Track option, the bolt holes on the tire rack align with the bed rails, and you can secure the base to the base rails with a Cantruss or Unistrut 1" EMT pipe clamp, available at your local big-box store for about $1.98. Two spring nuts and two 8" hex bolts will have this thing anchored to the truck bed as though it were installed that way. Makes transporting tires marginally easier to secure, and clears up some bed space. I could have probably done the same thing with rolling them in upright and tie-strapping them down, but I had the rack and thought it was cool.

I'm a wheel whore. At one time had about 5 sets of wheels, now I'm a bit more tamed and down to 2 sets of wheels. Since I'm actually trying to use my garage for a off street parking instead of storage space I had to look for some way to store my stock set of wheels. After doing some searches for wall mounted wheel racks I originally was planning to build my own from plans I found online but after doing more research I found the Hyloft 01031 rack at a lower price then what it cost to buy raw materials but it was already put together for me and backed by the manufacturer. Installation was simple, followed directions as printed. I did however had to provide my own washers for each of the bolts and lag bolts total 10pcs. I'm sure the rack would work fine without the washer but the rack is hollow and do not have gussets. I just felt a little safer knowing the washers added surfaced area where it would contact the rails/bars. The cross bars holding the wheel/tires up is comprised of 2 bars, one smaller bar sliding into a larger bar for adjust ability. Per the instructions the rack can be in to different widths 32 inches and 48 inches. I check for studs behind my wall and found instructions were matched up to 48 inches. One of my fears was that the cross bars were too thin and possibly flimsy. They're actually quite thick but they do flex a bit due to the 2 bars not exact Inner and outer diameter dimensions. Again I felt the need for washers especially for the 2 bars holding up 300lbs. Another cool thing, I'm not sure if any one mentioned yet. There are 2 crossbars included, so if you install both bars at the correct distance for your wheels. The tires will come close to the wall but NOT touch the wall, saving you from cleaning your wall of dirt and dust. The first couple of nights after installation and loading my Audi A4 17 inch wheels with tires, I was really iffy on parking my car underneath, needless to say I didn't park my car under the rack. I'd come home from work wondering if the rack gave out or maybe needed a couple of days for the metal or weight to settle in any sag. I feel confident in the production's structural integrity and now park my car in the garage and underneath it. I only gave it 4 stars because I provided my own washers and this is not the best looking wheel rack but it does what the manufacture says. I'm going to buy another one.

Overall, the rack is well executed, the quality of material and manufacturing is good. The unit comes mostly assembled which is pretty nice, they could have send a bunch of parts and left assembly to the purchaser. A couple of caveats and recommendations: Other reviewers recommended "higher quality" hardware, with longer lag bolts. I purchased some longer lag bolts, 4.5" x 5/16". Do not use the recommended pilot bit of 3/16", it is too small, the hole was so tight I ended up shearing off one of the Lowe's bolts, producing a lot of extra work. The better pilot bit size is 7/32", it still made the bolts plenty tight enough, but greatly reduces the likelihood that you will shear one off while tightening. One item lacking in my opinion was washers, I put flat washers on every bolt they provided, i.e. the six lag bolts and the four bolts holding the horizontal tubes, I think this substantially improves installation strength. All of the pre-assembled hardware uses nylon lock nuts and all of them were very loose and needed tightening. Do not over tighten or the rack will not fold, but they were so lose that many of the nuts weren't even fully seated on their bolt, and there was a lot of slop. Some asked whether tires will hit the wall or not, others complained that larger tires definitely would. I'm inclined to agree, the larger tires I put on the rack are 25.5" in diameter and with the two horizontal tubes spread at their widest holes, my tires are barely clearing the call. Still, I don't think it would be a problem to have them touching the wall, just don't expect some oversized truck tires to work well. Finally, I'm a "belt and suspenders" kind of guy when it comes to engineering, there are a lot of potential points of hardware failure on this rack (regardless of overall quality), I'm going to assume one of them will fail some day. At least one other reviewer complained of a failure that resulted in his tires falling from the wall and doing substantial damage to his vehicle. As a backup, I sank two very large eye bolts just outside the upper corners of the rack and used two steel snap links to then secure a sturdy loop of rope that I have run through my wheel hubs and to each eye bolt. If the rack ever fails, I'm confident that the rope and eye bolts will catch my wheels/tires and prevent damage to the vehicle parked just below. A couple of bucks for some easy insurance in my opinion.

While perfection should not be the goal this tire rack is pretty darn close for what I needed it to be! The materials felt of good dense steel and the craftsmanship was quality. Some other reviews have bagged on paint chipping and bent tabs, which I attributed to shipping and handling. If you’re looking for a shown room quality tire rack perhaps go buy one from a show room tire rack store instead of having one shipped to you online. I wasn’t married to the idea of having colored paint for my tire rack but was delighted to see that the color blended in to my garage motif just like any other tool or device. My wife says it matches our craftsman tool cart, so there’s that. There were some adverse reviews regarding instructions and assembly which I will cede is not the greatest but still usable and workable. The rack is more than sturdy enough to hold these 4 full size tires from my Suburban (265 70 17). For larger tires like this I would suggest bracing or shimming the wall mounts with 2 x 4 so that its space is the bracket from the wall. See in the video where the tires are touching the wall and not completely rusted on the rear bottom rung. All in all I am thoroughly pleased with the purchase assembly fit and finish and use. It’s gotten my spare tires off my garage floor and reclaimed quite a bit of space!

Pros: -Easy to install (once you buy washers, see below) -Very sturdy, and it hasn't pulled away from the wall. -Inexpensive! -I was able to fit 4 wheels/tires (17's with 225/50-17's) AND put the front wheel of my mountain bike on the rack to hold the rack. (see photo) Very convenient! Cons: -It came with lag bolts, but it did not come with washers. I ran to the hardware store and picked up washers for the bolts (as well as longer lag bolts...they were needed were I mounted the rack - I had to go through extra thick drywall before hitting studs). The mounting holes are not much smaller than the head of the mounting bolts, so I felt as though the rack would be much more stable with washers on the bolts. -The rack is a bit "flimsy" and has a lot of play between the joints. However, that is just the design, and the folding arms can be tightened up. Once the rack is loaded with 4 tires, it is totally stable. All in all, very great, stable rack and tough to beat, especially for the price.

You're looking at these reviews because you need to get your tires out of the way and are a little incredulous about the price of this rack versus some others. That was me about three months ago. I bought two of these for the tires from my Camry V6 and the tires from my Odyssey. The install was simple. The construction is very good. I have no concerns about safety. My tires are securely sitting on the racks for quite awhile. If you're like me you'll want to know the following: the tubes that go across the wall racks (on which the tires will sit) slide into one another - one tube big and one small. They simply slide in. No screwing or twisting or wedging. While the fit is fairly tight and precise, nonetheless you have a smaller tube sitting freely in a larger one and there is a little bit of play. As a result there is a slight sag in the middle. By my measurements the sag is about 1/2" or a little less at the center with the wall mounts 48" apart. It's not noticeable to the average naked eye. I measured it because I wanted to know with certainty if it was out of level. I find that the small sag is not structurally significant. Not even close. It's just a result of how the two pipes fit together. The pipes are not bent or bowed. What's more, since the four tires do no take up the whole rack, I have two off to one side and two off to the other, reducing any direct strain on the center point of the rack. I strongly recommend this product. It's easy to put up and it solves your problem at about a 1/3rd of the cost of some other rack options. Stop looking. You found what you need.