New tyres = stuffed wheel winch

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Originally Posted by JamesH

4. Either go through the preposterous process of jacking up the stuffed wheel back into the well (again with great care or world of pain) or, if you want to do the normal thing like chuck it in the back and head off to a repair shop, you need to abduct a Grade 1 kid and get it to crawl underneath and hang on to the chain because if you wind it up without any load you will be in a world of pain.

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For what its worth I let the spare down on normal height, get it out, put the punctured tyre back on the cable, put air in the bags for extended mode which lifts the tyre of the ground and puts it under tension and wind it up. So far so good...