Thread: spare tyres - actual times you needed a second spare

I've only ever carried one spare and used that just once in over 20 years after being too slack in not airing up after leaving the soft stuff and a sidewall got a small hole through it. With the Defender I traveled with plugs, tubes and tyre pliers and never used any of them.
With the D4 now I'll get some internal patches, keep the plugs and look for some tubes (are they available in 19"?) plus take the tyre pliers when going remote.
Fingers crossed I haven't cursed myself by writing this.....
Cheers.
AlanH.

Originally Posted by rammypluge

Never.

Modern tyres are much better, and we now have the temporary plug option.

But a key factor is whether you have an overloaded 4wd with small tyres, or a sensibly loaded 4wd with big tyres. The latter is a much better position to be in. Larger tyres are more heavy duty, and the less you load any tyre the less likely that it will get a puncture.

A second spare adds a fair amount of weight especially if you add heavy bracketry to fit it, which increases your risk of a puncture.

As I said, each to their own. I personally don't understand the fascination for "big" tyres, whatever that means. I've never had anything but the OE size tyres on any of my Land Rovers be they 750/16's or 235/85/16's and they've always sufficed.

I will agree that modern tyres are so much better than earlier ones.

wow - this is a thread that just keeps on giving ......



RFSV 110s come with 3 spares, a built-in compressor and tyrepliers ! I think it is to provide extra weight to assist in alleviating the harshness of the upgraded 130 suspension that is installed haha!

(it's just missing a mechanic)

I hope that when I use it I never have the need to use any of the above but they're there if I do

I'll only carry a second spare on remote trips. My second spare lives on the roof rack so it is a pain getting 40kg's of 285/75 tyre and steel rim up and down. I have contemplated making a some kind of a hoist using a small winch.

I have also thought about carrying one of these and then I just need to carry a spare tyre only.

TC110

The kit can be bought with a bullbar mount

The video make it look very easy

YouTube

I do always carry a tyre plug/patch kit.

BTW...do the plugs have a used by date?

Originally Posted by 86mud

I'll only carry a second spare on remote trips. My second spare lives on the roof rack so it is a pain getting 40kg's of 285/75 tyre and steel rim up and down. I have contemplated making a some kind of a hoist using a small winch.

I have also thought about carrying one of these and then I just need to carry a spare tyre only.

TC110

The kit can be bought with a bullbar mount

The video make it look very easy

YouTube

I do always carry a tyre plug/patch kit.

BTW...do the plugs have a used by date?

Thanks 86mud...

That’s what I need! Should be able to adapted to plug into your towing tongue that way would be a little lower!!

Group buy option?

As has been said earlier, once you have been unfortunate enough to destroy a tyre, having a second spare gives peace of mind, especially when you are in an isolated area. Many years ago on returning from a trip from Alice Springs, when the Stuart Highway was still mostly unsealed and extremely corrugated, I arrived in Port Augusta just on dusk and the next morning both rear tyres were flat as a tack. I was in a 109 series one ute and running 750 x 16's with tubes.

Other than plugs, a good quick fix for a tubeless tyre that has been punctured by a nail or a piece of wire is a self tapping screw. I plugged a puncture with a self tapper as a "temporary" measure whilst on a Cape York trip and drove home to Victoria without any issues, or having to reinflate the tyre at any time. Actually I drove around locally for about another three months before I got around to repairing it.
So an assortment of self tapper of various gauges is a handy thing to have in the tool roll.

Cheers, Mick.

I usually carry 2 spares in the s2a or s3. One on the bonnet and one inside on the drivers side where it mounts. Was thinking of putting another spare inside on the left for my planned round the block tour in my s2a...which sadly prob wont happen. Old Betsy is sitting sadly as a rolling chassis in my driveway still.

Cheers Rod

So what happens when we use the second spare.....consider taking three?? Turn around and hope to get back.

When I had the camper trailer I went to the trouble to have same rims, actually went a bit over the top and had Defender hubs, disc and calipers on the trailer axle. Figured it might useful. Guess on the trips with the camper I had two spares one on car and one on trailer plus the two on the trailer axle.