Space save-Will it or won't it?

[reflexboy]

My other half is collecting an R172, SLK shortly and it has the silly tyre foam stuff and a compressor. We would really like a space saver or collapsible spare that would fit in the wheel well under the boot floor. Some have said it's not a wheel well??, some say the space saver wheel doesn't fit in there and some say if you get a flat, the standard 18" alloy with the flat won't fit laying in the boot either. Other thing I have read say the collapsible wheel/tyre will fit in the wheel well type area under the boot floor. Can anyone confirm this please?

 

[A250 Bennyboy]

I looked into this myself and came to the conclusion that a space saver wouldn't fit the diameter of the boot well. A folding tyre would fit but then the punctured wheel would not fit in the boot space? :fail
So in the end I settled for compressor and a can of gunk

 

[reflexboy]

I looked into this myself and came to the conclusion that a space saver wouldn't fit the diameter of the boot well. A folding tyre would fit but then the punctured wheel would not fit in the boot space? :fail So in the end I settled for compressor and a can of gunk

Thank you for the reply. Would the punctured wheel not fit in the boot at all? Not even on top of the boot floor rather than in the wheel well?

 

[PobodY]

I would have though you could get it in an SLK, but you probably can't fold the roof with the tyre in the way.

 

[st13phil]

My wife has a R172 and previously had a R171. I believe that the well in the boot floor is the same size on both cars but haven't measured it.

If it is the same size then you would need a collapsible space saver as was supplied with the R171, as a standard spacesaver won't fit. You will also need the jack and wheelbrace, and of course you already have the compressor. An 18" rim will definitely fit in the boot, but I think it would be a tight fit with a tyre on it. It definitely won't fit in the wheel well.