Displaying LEGO Technic models & suspension

[Jetro]

When you display a large(ish) Technic (car) model on a shelf for a long period of time, do you take any precautions to protect the suspension? If you do, what and why? Have you had any negative experience or are you just being extremely cautious?

[Zerobricks]

I tend to support mine with a simple frame, since springs seem to lose strenth over time.

Edited 3 hours ago by Zerobricks

[JunkstyleGio]

I've build various simple frames. Just to keep the wheels off the ground and the model tilted. 

I've started with one and now a build is not finished without a stand.

This one is not mine but can be found on rebrickable.

 

 

 

 

[Stereo]

I don't worry about it at all, but my heaviest model is the 42110 Land Rover.  The only set I've seen problems with was 8479 and it was the front axle wheels because the axle only goes partway through them, it started cracking the wheel.  So I switched to longer axle with stop (4L, which didn't exist when the set was made) and I feel fine with that.

Edited 4 hours ago by Stereo

[Good old Lego builder]

Under some models I have placed transparant bricks. Like the 1989 batmobile, but that is more to save the tires.

[anyUser]

I put support under the chassis of heavy weight structures such as 42082, 42131, 42146.

I  have 8880, 8458, 8461 stored assembled without support for more than twenty years.

However, I have inserted a ring made from corrugated pipe as a support into the rear wheels of 8284 and 8455 since the tyres tend to flatten within weeks from assembly.