Useless Spare Wheel

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Originally Posted by Ausfree

Maybe she should have had her hazard lights on, does not excuse bad behaviour from other drivers though.

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That's a good idea ! will let her know , I think she will get a full sized wheel as a spare now .

These stupid spares ruled out half the vehicles we were considering buying.
In the end, the first question we asked was " does it have a correct full size spare"
Some salesman were incredulous, boasting roadside assist, blah blah. One even insisted on an arguement about the chances of needing the spare.

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Originally Posted by crash

In a lot of vehicles the wheel well for the space saver is smaller than the fitted road tyres. So imagine you are a family of four on a road trip with the back / boot filled with luggage and you get a flat. Where are you going to put the flat tyre?
Only used a space saver once - pain in the back side!
Space savers are not recommended to be used on the drive wheels, so you may have to end up swapping 3 tyres around - e.g. if getting a front flat on a FWD vehicle - take off flat tyre and replace with space saver, then move to the back take good tyre off, put flat on, then take rear tyre to front to swap with space saver, then take the flat off of the rear and put the space saver onto the rear - sounds like fun to me!
In my opinion a good quality plug kit and a decent compressor is a better option than a space saver.

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https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/368.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/369.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/01/377.jpg

Sounds like the Irish way of doing it to me. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/370.jpg

Why wouldn't you simply remove one of the rear wheels and replace with your space saver spare, and then remove the flat tyre from the front of the vehicle and replace it with the inflated tyre you have just removed from the rear. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/371.jpg

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Originally Posted by BMKal

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/368.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/369.jpg https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/01/377.jpg

Sounds like the Irish way of doing it to me. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/370.jpg

Why wouldn't you simply remove one of the rear wheels and replace with your space saver spare, and then remove the flat tyre from the front of the vehicle and replace it with the inflated tyre you have just removed from the rear. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...016/03/371.jpg

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I was over complicating things wasn't I.

I wonder what it would be like to drive on four of those space savers spares?

Most of the space saver spares on the smaller cars are motor bike tyres....

Those things are also supposed to inflated to 60 psi......but no one ever checks them.....so by the time you need to use it.....it's got less than half its required pressure.......

As stated previously.....they are only good for suburbia......barely....

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Originally Posted by PhilipA

Don't new RRS's have a smaller (narrower) spare wheel than the others?
I thought there were posts last week.
Where do you put the flat tyre?
Regards Philip A

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Full size spare for RRS Philip.