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Automated Tire Storage

Store more tires in less floor space and put every tire within reach at the push of a button with the Vidir Tire Carousel — a motorized vertical storage system built for dealerships, tire retailers, fleets and plants.

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Automated Tire Storage That Keeps Every Tire Within Reach

Tires are bulky, heavy, and easy to lose track of once a storage room fills up. A Vidir Tire Carousel replaces rows of static racking with a motorized system of rotating carriers, so instead of a technician walking the room and searching shelf by shelf, the operator enters a location on a keypad and the carousel rotates the correct tire to them at an ergonomic height.

Because storage is vertical instead of spread across the floor, facilities typically recover a large share of the space a comparable static tire room would need — space that can go back to service bays, retail floor, or additional inventory.

Why Tire Inventory Gets Out of Control

Most facilities don’t plan a tire storage problem into existence — it grows one season at a time. A dealership adds a customer tire-storage program, a fleet garage adds spares for a growing vehicle count, or a tire retailer widens its size range, and within a couple of years the original static racking is full, tires are stacked on the floor between rows, and finding a specific size means walking the whole room. Because tires are heavy, awkwardly shaped, and easy to mislabel, that crowding also creates real safety exposure — technicians lifting overhead, tires stacked unsecured, and aisles narrowed by overflow stock.

A motorized carousel solves the space problem and the safety problem at the same time: it doesn’t ask for more floor area, and it stops asking a person to climb, bend or reach to get a tire down. The tradeoff is a higher upfront cost than open steel racking, which is why the comparison further down this page matters — for some facilities a static rack is still the right call, and for others the carousel pays for itself in recovered space and reduced injury risk within a few years.

Benefits of Automated Tire Storage

Ergonomic, One-Button RetrievalThe carousel rotates the requested carrier to the operator at waist-to-shoulder height, so technicians never climb a ladder, bend under a low shelf, or wrestle a heavy tire out of a tight rack opening.

Recovers Floor Space by Going VerticalStoring tires in rotating carriers stacked to the ceiling instead of spread across floor-level racks typically recovers up to 70% of the floor space a static tire room would otherwise need.

Keypad Access and Optional Security GatesA keypad controls who can operate the carousel, and an optional enclosed security gate restricts physical access to the stored tires — useful anywhere tire theft or unauthorized pulls are a concern.

Built-to-Fit, Not One-Size-Fits-AllCarousels are sized to the tire diameters, quantities and ceiling height on your floor plan, and can be specified semi-automated (manual rotation) or fully motorized.

Faster, More Accurate PicksA defined location per carrier means the right tire, in the right size, comes to the counter or bay on the first try — instead of a technician searching multiple rows of open racking.

Scales From One Bay to a Full Storage RoomThe same carrier system scales from a single carousel behind one service bay to a bank of units covering an entire seasonal-tire storage program.

Automated Carousel vs. Traditional Static Tire Racking

Material Handling USA sells both. Here’s an honest look at where each one fits.

	Vidir Tire Carousel	Static Tire Rack
Floor space for ~150 tires	Roughly the footprint of one carousel column	Multiple rows of open steel shelving
Retrieval	Tire delivered to the operator at push-button height	Operator climbs, bends, or reaches into open bays
Access control	Keypad and optional enclosed security gate	Open access unless the whole room is secured
Inventory accuracy	One tire per defined carrier location	Relies on manual labeling and organization
Footprint growth	Adds vertically without a larger building footprint	Adding capacity means adding floor-level rack rows
Best fit	High tire counts, tight floor space, security concerns	Lower tire counts, ample floor space, lower budget

Where Automated Tire Storage Is Used

Automotive DealershipsSeasonal tire changeovers, customer-owned tire storage programs, and service-bay inventory all move faster when technicians request a tire and it comes to them.

Tire RetailersHigh SKU counts across passenger, light-truck and specialty sizes are easier to track and rotate through a defined carrier location per size than through open floor racks.

Fleet & Municipal MaintenanceFleet garages storing spares and seasonal sets for dozens or hundreds of vehicles gain both space and a controlled, keypad-restricted storage point.

Manufacturing & DistributionPlants that consume or distribute tires as a component or a stocked product can hold far more inventory in the same footprint than pallet racking allows.

Related Products & Resources

Vidir Vertical Storage SolutionsThe full Vidir product line MH-USA sells and installs — carousels, VLMs, and more.

Vidir Tire Carousel Buyer’s GuideA closer look at choosing the right tire carousel model for your facility.

Tire Carousel vs. Vertical Tire StorageHow carousel-based tire storage compares to other vertical storage approaches.

Vertical Carousel vs. Vertical Lift ModuleDeciding between a carousel and a VLM for your storage application.

VLM vs. Vertical Carousel ComparisonA side-by-side technical comparison of the two automated storage formats.

Automotive ShelvingParts room shelving, drawers and racking to complete a dealership service bay.