FULL SIZE SPARE WHEEL
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:45 am
Just after buying our "Coop-Cab" as the dealers would say, we had a puncture on Douglas promenade on a Sunday morning. I vowed then to fit a full size spare as it was a pain being without the car(no tyre depots open). No point in ruining a brand new tyre with the foam stuff we thought.
That was in October '09 and this week I finally got round to buying a 16inch steel wheel from Lookers in Chester!! £62 including a small discount. A cheap (ish) tyre from Buckley Tyres £54 completed the mission. I was warned to treat this combo like an emergency spare since the alloys are 17in with the new slightly higher profile tyre making up the difference.
A flat boot floor from Lookers would cost an horrific £133 - yes three figures!! I think not! I will make a boot floor from a piece of 3-ply covered with thin carpet.
The polystyrene insert to store the tools in the wheel was over £60 so again I have made do with wrapping the larger items in old T shirts and storing the smaller items in a Ferrero Rocher box!.
Unbelievably the handling seems to have improved with the extra weight (roof up)and the mpg remains the same at a rather paltry 42.
Hope this helps anyone thinking of doing the same.
That was in October '09 and this week I finally got round to buying a 16inch steel wheel from Lookers in Chester!! £62 including a small discount. A cheap (ish) tyre from Buckley Tyres £54 completed the mission. I was warned to treat this combo like an emergency spare since the alloys are 17in with the new slightly higher profile tyre making up the difference.
A flat boot floor from Lookers would cost an horrific £133 - yes three figures!! I think not! I will make a boot floor from a piece of 3-ply covered with thin carpet.
The polystyrene insert to store the tools in the wheel was over £60 so again I have made do with wrapping the larger items in old T shirts and storing the smaller items in a Ferrero Rocher box!.
Unbelievably the handling seems to have improved with the extra weight (roof up)and the mpg remains the same at a rather paltry 42.
Hope this helps anyone thinking of doing the same.