Thread: TDCi Defender - Wheel Carrier

Originally Posted by JamesH

All the useful information in this thread and others has sort of got me bogged. I have my spare wheel lying on the floor in the back. I thought i wanted a Bearmach but there have been negative comments and I'll have to pay somebody to install it. Then I thought about the Kaymar but the $$$ slowed me down.

I don't know if I'm being stupid but i just don't like the idea of seperate systems. I want to go to the back of my vehicle and just open the door.

I know how you feel...the Disco carries a spare wheel on the rear door and from that on occasion I have also mounted a bike rack and 3 bikes...no issue.

So I am plugging for a one operation carrier that can cope with the loads static and dynamic. If the OL version has some issues then let OL know and then fix it...looks like basic engineering to me .

The Kaymar jobbie seems to put a lot of faith on a simple cantilever where as the others use a triangulated structure to best effect. All OL need to do is bolster the structure of the bottom fixing plate and they are home and hosed.

I guess my point is that we need to feed back to the makers of the products the "real world" experience. If they are worthy of our patronage and continued custom they will respond...innovation and continuous improvement are the buzz words.

and this is the power of aulro.

Originally Posted by TD5_Fender

Here are some more photo's of my Kaymar Carrier

It's all good!......Thanks for that mate......

Originally Posted by one_iota

Getting back to the OL carrier and Scallop's experience, I have alerted the local OL man about this and he is going to have a chat with the manufacturer. He has not had any adverse feed back (and he has one on his Defender) so it will be interesting to hear back from him.

The one I have has the modification done by the manufacturer,if I could workout how to add pictures,I could show you.

We have the Scorpion Racing one from Rovacraft and are happy with it.

On our recent Central Australia/Madigan line trip, some of the corrugations encountered were horrendous. It was brought to our attention whilst driving that the wheel moved around a lot, but on examination there have been no ill affects, in fact nothing has moved at all (which is what I would expect).

It has similar mountings to the Bearmach jobbie, but the rear quarter brackets extend right across.

Well I've ordered the Bearmach one. I know it will take the vibrations, because I've had one on the other Defender for 18 months, and its seen some really good corrugations

Thanks everyone, especially Tim for the Pic's of the back of his Puma.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Well I've ordered the Bearmach one. I know it will take the vibrations, because I've had one on the other Defender for 18 months, and its seen some really good corrugations

Thanks everyone, especially Tim for the Pic's of the back of his Puma.

No worries Derek!

Tim

With the door open on the O/L / Bearmach carriers how much room is there between the tyre and the back of the car? I only ask because I run 255's or 34" Simex's so I was wanting to make sure the back door would still fully open.

My one looks like this with the standard 235/85/R16 Tyre:







Cheers,

Tim