Space saver wheels poll?

[grober]

I am thinking of starting a space saver wheel/ run flat tyres poll but I'm not sure if this has been done already. If NOT I would welcome suggestions as to the poll questions.

 

[Mambo]

I think you answered that one yourself

Runflats

or

Space Saver

I would vote space saver, the run flats I had on mine were awful, a lot better now I have "normal" tyres on

 

[Shude]

Nevermind a space-saver how about a proper spare?

 

[grober]

Keep Em Coming!

 

[Shude]

Sometimes all you get is a can of tyre-weld or something and a compressor (SLK).

 

[prprandall51]

Options I can think of:

1) Space Saver

2) Tyre Mobility System (can of foam, compressor) / no spare

3) Run Flat tyres on all wheels / no spare

4) Full sized spare wheel on budget steel rim

5) Full sized spare on equivalent alloy rim

I vote for (5) - it is effectively a free tyre and a spare rim if you kerb one.

Philip

 

[996jimbo]

How about:
What would you rather have in your boot:
1. Space saver plus all the junk that ends up in a boot
2. Just the junk on its own and runflats
3. A full size tyre and still have room for that junk

Or:
What is more attractive to the opposite sex:
1. Expensive car with silly looking space saver
2. Expensive car wallowing around on run flats trying to find a tyre depot that's open at 9.00pm on a Saturday evening
3. Expensive car on the wheels that God and his various deity chums intended it to be on

 

[fuzzer]

space savers suck...

 

[blassberg]

space savers suck...

does that mean you can inflate them faster?

 

[grober]

Some good ideas/comments so far. I will leave it another 12 -24 hrs and then try posting the options as a poll.

 

[marc777]

Having done 340 miles yesterday returning home from Paris - on a space saver -(max speed 50mph) I would vote for an equivalent alloy wheel in the boot to use for when you kerb one of the others.

This is the first time I've needed a space saver. It was 6 hours of hell. Bad handling and barely enough speed to outrun a caravan.

Never been so humiliated ..............

 

[Alps]

I went through this dilemma when building my boot ICE install, in the end i figured out a way of still keeping a 17" alloy as a spare with access to it and having all my system installed around it! 17" alooy was the max I could fit in, as a 18" one would not fit in the spare wheel well. Space savers suck, for the very reason marc777 has said.

 

[COUPE FREAK]

I went through this dilemma when building my boot ICE install, in the end i figured out a way of still keeping a 17" alloy as a spare with access to it and having all my system installed around it! 17" alooy was the max I could fit in, as a 18" one would not fit in the spare wheel well. Space savers suck, for the very reason marc777 has said.

would'nt that be an mot fail,, 4 x 18" and a 17" spare,,??

 

[marc777]

would'nt that be an mot fail,, 4 x 18" and a 17" spare,,??

Mine passed - the space saver is about 5 inches wide, the alloy 9". I guess they are running on roughly same diameter if correct profile tyres to the larger alloy

 

[COUPE FREAK]

Mine passed - the space saver is about 5 inches wide, the alloy 9". I guess they are running on roughly same diameter if correct profile tyres to the larger alloy

think the width does'nt matter,, just the diameter,,

 

[nigel cross]

For your info my Merc was a ' Picadilly Car ', and did not come with a spare wheel at all, but the stealers changed it out allong with a wheel cage and bolts and a ' small ' steel wheel,when i picked it up.

 

[Will]

would'nt that be an mot fail,, 4 x 18" and a 17" spare,,??

Wouldn't have thought so - some cars come with different sized rims front and back (diameter as well as width!)

I don't think the spare is part of an MOT test anyway

Will

 

[Thmsshaun]

Can of tyre weld and an AA card. The mini has runflats. Dont rate them at all.

 

[Thmsshaun]

I don't think the spare is part of an MOT test anyway

Will

No it isnt. Although I think if you have one it does have to be legal.

 

[Dieselman]

think the width does'nt matter,, just the diameter,,

Spare wheels are not covered by the MOT test.

There was some cotrovesy though about manufacturers using a different wheel and tyre for the spare to the ones on the car. Not space sasvers, just smaller.