Guide
Tyre hotel or store at home?
Both work. The real question is whether you want to pay for convenience or put in a little effort yourself and keep the money. Here are the differences, and how to store tyres properly if you do it at home.
Tyre hotel.
The upside is simple: you avoid the lifting, avoid finding space, and the tyres are stored in the right climate. Many workshops also wash and inspect them between seasons. Convenient if you live in a flat or simply don't want four tyres in the storage room.
The downside is the cost, often around 2000 kronor or more a year, and that you're tied to that particular workshop. The tyres are sitting there, after all. If you want to switch supplier you have to collect them first. Storing them at home is free instead.
Storing at home.
Free, and you have the tyres close at hand. It only requires that you have space and do it the right way, otherwise the rubber ages early. A couple of simple rules go a long way.
Store them cool, dark and dry, ideally in a garage or storage room and never in direct sunlight. Clean the tyres before you put them away and mark which position they were on, for example left front, so you rotate them correctly next time. Tyres without rims should stand upright and be turned a quarter now and then. Tyres mounted on rims are best lying down or hanging.
And the change itself?
Whichever you choose, I change the tyres where the car is parked. If you store at home I take off the summer tyres and put them away where you want, and fit the winter tyres. That's the whole point of a mobile change: the tyres and the car are in the same place, and you don't need to go anywhere.