Tubes for car dolly tires; thoughts?

My car dolly needs new tires. I have a very narrow alley way to negotiate when getting the car our of my yard. I've actually broken the tire bead (thankfully coming back from a track day) once while pulling in. I was thinking a tube might help solve that problem. However, when I talked to the local tire guy, he said that would give me more trouble and if the bead was to break, the tube would rupture as well.

Thoughts from the group? I'm getting better at threading the needle as it were, but would like some buffer so I don't get a flat while heading to the track.

Thanks,

Jeff

I think your tire guy is right. What size tires does it have? Maybe there is a higher load range trailer tire that would fit and at least be a bit tougher to break the bead. Just a thought.

Do your rims have Safety beads rolled in? Some race guys use four / five 1 inch long weld bead on top of the factory bump to make it harder to roll off the bead HOWEVER it make mounting and unmounting an event... Use Bead screws if you real need to. https://www.mickeythompsontires.com/tech.php?bulletin=s4

Driver Mod is the cheapest fix for this one but you say you're already working on that.

If i were in your position i would actually add some kind of ramp structure in front of the tire that tapers from the inside edge of the tire to the outside edge so that if you run the dolley into something (slowly..) it will hit metal and maybe even bump the dolley over before it hits the tire. But what height is the thing you're hitting?

This is what I have to deal with. Notice the garbage cans on the right and the car parked at the left. The wheels will just roll through if I get it lined up just perfect.

So it sounds to me like your dollies project out from the car, and they got squeezed and you broke the bead on one of the dolly tires, correct? So the car itself could fit (if you were, say, sliding it on ice) but car + dollies don't.

I'm thinking you need to find some method of rolling the car that doesn't effectively increase the size of the vehicle you need to squeeze through there. Dollies under the chassis maybe?

Or you could look at doing away with pneumatic tires entirely and use solid tires or tweels...be sure to check the load ratings on those.

In reply to GameboyRMH:

That's the issue in a nutshell. And the trouble is pulling in as it's tough to get the car straight fast enough from the hard left (narrow city streets).

I'm actually considering flat towing. No issues with non plated cars in ON. If I wad it up, I can go get the dolly to drag it home. If it's to bad for the dolly, I can just pour gasoline on it ;-)

Any reason why you can't load and unload on the street and just roll the dolly in and out by hand before putting the car on?

I've done that before but it's tough to find enough street space in our busy downtown neighborhood. I know, we need to move.

Ok, i see that my idea is mostly irrelevant to this situation.

Honestly, i'm surprised you popped a bead from looking at that pic. The only practical thing i can think of is just the unwanted 'be more careful' type stuff, but i can understand not wanting to block the street taking 10 minutes trying to line it up perfect. Tough situation in that case.

Flat tow it.

I just bought an 05 WRX with a busted motor and I am going to do that or plate it.

Tires inflated to sidewall pressure? What tires are you running now?