Roll car dollies on Race Deck?

[DanEC]

Looks like this may be the place to come to for past experiences that may relate to my question. I would like to dress up a garage I keep 4 cars housed in and because of the time to install epoxy paint I've been looking at RaceDeck and Race Day floor tiles. My concern is that I have one car I store on steel wheel dollies and have to roll it out when I drive it and roll it back in afterwards to store. RaceDeck says casters are no problems but my Engineering 6th sense is telling me that may be a bit too optimistic. The car is relatively light - about 2700 lbs but it stays stored sitting on the dollies as it's pushed up against a wall.

Anyone have experience with cars on caster dollies with RaceDeck or even Race Day floor tiles? I suspect Race Day floor tiles do not present as hard a surface as Race Deck and would drag more when trying to roll the car. I'm in plenty good enough shape at 65 to muscle the car out for a drive on concrete, but I'm not getting younger and I don't want to create more work for myself.

Thanks in advance for any experiences you can tell me about.

Dan

 

[Caddis295]

Dan,

RaceDeck will not allow to you roll your car around on dollies very easily. I don't know anything about race day tiles, but I know RaceDeck presents an issue with heavy items on small wheels dimpling the tiles. Will it support it, Yes. Will you need to take a running start at moving a heavy object on wheels that has been stationary for a while....Yes.

Best of luck on your search.

 

[396_425]

Dan,

I have Race Deck and small steel wheels with weight on them will dent the floor. I have a piece of plywood under my motor stand.

 

[DanEC]

Thanks for the replies. This is sounding like a non-starter the more I dig into it. I may have to live with bare concrete.

 

[Disney]

2700/4 = 675
675/4 = 168.75

So depending on the shape of the wheel, it will only see <200lb at a point of contact. My engineering 6th sense says that will be OK.

 

[Falcon67]

I've had a 3000lb car on dollies. The drag strip uses Racedeck on the first floor instead of bare concrete. My sense is that I would not do it. It's already hard enough to move a car on hard smooth concrete. Anything with give - no thanks.

You'd be miles ahead to spend the time required to paint the floor. I used an industrial coating semi-epoxy and was done in 3 days including etching/rinsing the floor.

 

[DanEC]

I've inquired on 3 forums as to experiences with RaceDeck and dollies - here, Club Cobra Forum and Corvette Forums - and some have said no problem and other have said they wouldn't do it. Considering all of the input I think the following best summarizes everything up:

A car on dollies and left parked on RaceDeck will probably result in slight depreessions in the flooring over time. When the time comes to move the car, it will take a lot of effort to get those 16 wheels turned and up and out of the slight depressions. Once out and moving, it will probably roll pretty good, although I've had one or two responses that the diamond pattern can interfere with the dollies rolling over the top. Considering how difficult it can sometimes be to get all 16 casters pointed in roughly the same direction, that sounds plausible.

I have Harbor Freight crank up dollies with steel wheels. On concrete I have been pretty happy with them. Given plenty of room it will move and spin with out any great effort - getting it to move in the exact direction you want it to can sometimes take a little tugging and corrective effort.

I move the car over next to a wall in the garage to park it. It's a little tight trying to get between the car and the wall but it may be plausible to crank the dollies down when in position to put the weight on the tires instead of the dollies - thereby avoiding dimples. Then it's a simple matter to crank them up a couple notches to roll the car out. I just need to figure out whether I want to go through this effort, just to get a nice floor.

Thanks

 

[kevakasper]

I have race deck and a bend pak HD9 lift with the casters, they are about 8" diameter. I moved the lift once with the car on it and it actually pushed the floor into a wave.