Spare wheel warning!

Anthony48
Anthony48 Forum Participant Posts: 5
edited April 2012 in Your stories #1

At a recent service on my Bailey Bordeaux by a mobile engineer he pointed out a nail in one of the road wheels tyres, it was not leaking air though, I decided that the following day I would remove the wheel and take it to my local tyre company for a repair and have the tyre put onto the spare wheel and the spare tyre onto the road wheel.

So jack up caravan and remove wheel, no problem, drop down the spare wheel cage, no problem; remove the large hand wheel type clamp, a little stiff but no real problem, undo the further securing nut, it won’t budge, now I have a great deal of engineering experience and I like to think practical skills, I tried every thing in my arsenal of ideas, it would not budge.

 Day two sees me back with a nut splitter and a large chisel, after a good deal of bad language and grazed knuckles I eventually remove the nut.

The moral of the story is check you can remove your spare before you need to on the side of the road.

Now some will say no doubt that with my engineering knowledge I should have check this, true, but in mitigation this had been greased on all the yearly services.

Comments

  • valeter
    valeter Forum Participant Posts: 43
    edited April 2012 #2

    The spare wheel racks are a nightmare to undo you have kneel down put get it out,I have discarded the rack and put spare wheel in the boot much easier to use

  • Jonty
    Jonty Forum Participant Posts: 3
    edited May 2012 #3

    Have never really been able to understand why spare wheels are hung underneath a vehicle, where they gather all the muck n sh*t going !!

  • KevinO
    KevinO Forum Participant Posts: 17
    edited May 2012 #4

    I've mentioned this on another thread. What is did was :

    I took my spare wheel of the holder under the caravan and either put it under the fixed bed(i have a door for under the bed from the outside) and i have also taken the second gas canister holder from the front compartment if i want to stick the tyre in there. 
    If ever i need to get at the wheel, i won't have to worry about getting dirty or wet ,or worry about the cars passing close by whilst trying to struggle with a dirty rusted mechanism on my hands and knees.

    Just a thought

    KevinO

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