Perx

Seems like my spare is too wide, too tall.

Seems like when I have the spare cover on, that it's much taller than the rest of the cargo area.

I took a couple photos too see what you folks think. The first shows that the rim extends above the adjacent cargo area by approx 1/2 inch. The second photo shows that the rim from the flat of the hub to the edge of the rim is approx 4 1/2 inches.

Is that consistent with what you folks have?

Rob Edwards

Mine too, and the darn 'compact' spare is also too large in diameter- it's a real press-fit into the spare tire well, even after I pulled the needle valve and compressed the tire with a ratcheting tie-down for a while. It's either an inherently poor design, or we're both missing something......

SeanR

Mine is the same way, which leads me to believe that the reason the original spare tire cover was concave. So it would fit over the tire.

the flyin' scotsman

I wonder how many owners leave their's at home?

One could omit the spare, jack, compressor, wheel nut wrench and carry a can(s) of tyre inflation 'goop'.

69gaugeman

No spares here. Auto club is automatic on my TD Visa gold card.

borland

The Spare Tire Cover was designed to be supported by the spare tire.

F4GIB

My 95 has the complete original cover. It is attached to (and rests on) a 1/2 inch thick piece of grey insulation (with various pressure points compressed into it). The resulting floor is flat.

In your photo the pad of insulation appears to be missing.

danglerb

Maybe give the spare a treatment with a mityvac?

perrys4

Mine is also flat. I know it takes some effort to get it all back in properly in order to be flush.

James-man

Sounds like a good poll topic.

Ralph Newman

To get my spare back in I also squeezed it with a ratcheting cargo strap. When it got close to fitting I put the swader valve back in, tightened the strap and opened the valve to release the newly pressurized air. I repeated this several times and finally it fit.
Happy New Year to all.

jpitman2

My (early) spare has a double valve on it - one std schrader to inflate, other is pulled to allow air out. It deflates without help to a size where it fits in hole, but only when its exactly level and square to the hole. Edges of cover angle downto meet floor, so it assumes the actual rim is a bit higher. My cover foam all fell to bits, so I relined it with some 1/2" blue foam stuff from a roll up camping swag thing.
jp 83 Euro S AT 50k

SharkSkin

Quick way to get the spare to fit back in is to deflate as far as it will go using the secondary valve, then close that & loosen the schrader valve. Then, using a piece of vac hose that fits over the valve stem, pump it down with a MityVac until it drops into the spre tire well. Works like a charm.

danglerb

My rim is wider than the depth of the well. No compressor or I think jack, just a "thing", maybe a lift adapter thing, very good chance its going to be a subwoofer location real soon.

Maybe instead of a spare it would be a good idea to keep bit of paper in the glovebox with a list of all the common vehicles that have a wheel that would fit in an emergency?

Mark

Mine's been out forever. Carry a AAA card!

One has to wonder how good 15-20 year-old rubber is???? It'd be a real pisser to go thru all the work to pull it out, pump it up....only to have major cracks/dry rot.

On road trips, I throw a full size tire/rim in the back - just in case... (I only have about 8 sets of tires/rims between the 928 and the 951....)