Thread: Good spot for 2nd spare wheel on CCCCC trip?

Originally Posted by Treads

It'll be on Disco steels in a little while, we're ditching the defender wheels

even so cant you run tubes in disco rims?

2 or 3 tubes takes up a hell of a lot less space/weight than a second wheel

this is what we orginally were going to do with our defender until we were informed that we would be very lucky to break the bead on an alloy in the bush let alone reseat it....apparently they are notorously hard....and even some tyre shops have a hard time with it

Originally Posted by p38arover

Getting it down isn't an issue. Getting it down safely is. You have to lower it on a rope. Dunno if any of you have ever dropped an inflated wheel from that height but it will bounce back nearly as high and often in an unintended direction. It is dangerous.

exactly! Murphy's law also in my case would dictate that it would travel off the side of the cliff and end up god knows where. dobbo unless you carry a ladder around getting it down by yourself or up can be awkward as it is both heavy and not the ideal shape to carry. Throwing down is an option as long as lands right if it lands wrong it could end up anywhere.

Originally Posted by dullbird

even so cant you run tubes in disco rims?

2 or 3 tubes takes up a hell of a lot less space/weight than a second wheel

this is what we orginally were going to do with our defender until we were informed that we would be very lucky to break the bead on an alloy in the bush let alone reseat it....apparently they are notorously hard....and even some tyre shops have a hard time with it

I'm sure you can run tubes; however I'd heard it was hard enough breaking the bead on Disco steel wheels, let alone Defender ones I actually thought it would just be easier (read lazier if you like ) to just carry a second spare and a tyre repair kit since I've already got an onboard compressor.

Here in lies the reason I changed mine over to tubeless rims. Plug, reinflate and away.
I also carry 3 full spares.
Gotta love a 130.

CC

Originally Posted by dhard

dobbo unless you carry a ladder around getting it down by yourself or up can be awkward as it is both heavy and not the ideal shape to carry. Throwing down is an option as long as lands right if it lands wrong it could end up anywhere.

Wherever the County goes, so does the ladder bolted to the back of it.

I totally agree though removal of a rimmed tyre from a roof rack is definately not a one person job.

Awesome idea with steel rims as an emegency stop gap. Only problem being if the hole is toobig the tube would be protruding and exposed too damage. In an emergency if the hole is too big to be plugged i sounds good to me. You'd have to be mighty unlucky to get two punctures you couldn't repair with modern tyre technology strengthing the tyres so much.(unless you own a d3 and have goodyear road tyres on that seem to be made of cheese in the sidewall)

Originally Posted by Col.Coleman

Here in lies the reason I changed mine over to tubeless rims. Plug, reinflate and away.
I also carry 3 full spares.
Gotta love a 130.

CC

Judging from last weeks trip you only need three wheels as the other is in the air half the time. Best footage of a 130 offroad i've seen.

I would just lye it down in the back and tyhey put stuff inside it. I put my recovery stuff in the middle so no area to waste
Sort of like this, But the rim the other way up so you can put stuff in it