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Location: Canton, (Sixes) GA
(24.131.52.9) | With the questions regarding mounting of a spare tire and wheel, wondering how many are carrying a spare. Please participate. | |
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Location: Prescott, AZ
(69.92.110.115) | Well I am a new owner and the previous owner sold his spare and bumper attachment. I am considering leaving as is. | |
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Location: Cottage Grove, OR
(68.186.124.23) | Originally I carried my spare, but after getting new tires i stopped carrying it unless i was going down into Mexico. I plan on carrying my spare only when going out of country or extendec remote traveling. I has Emergency Roadside Service insurance so in most places i can get a new tire brought to me and mounted by the EMS service. I would have to pay for the tire, but not the service call. I feel that if you travel with good tires, then it is highly unlikely that a spare will be needed. And the coach shows its nice clean lines better without the spare! | |
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Location: Victoria, BC. Canada
(108.180.28.87) | My plan is to take #846 into the back country for out of the way camping, fishing & hunting excursions; having a spare is not an option.
If FMC's were not so 'butt-heavy' I'd leave the spare on the rear bumper. Somehow I figured the extra 100 - 150/lbs hanging out front would be a useful weight transfer and with my cool new 'Canuck-flag' vinyl
spare-tire cover, it don't look half bad.
For those looking at a vinyl spare cover (vs. the hard 'Continental Kit' I can't say enough good things about these folks: Tire Cover Central ( http://www.tirecovercentral.com/index.htm )
Family run outfit in Kentucky that does awesome work at a great price; real professionals. They built it, shipped it and landed it at my door out here on the West Coast for about $80-bucks. Fits like a glove.
Ironic that I ended up having a Yankee company make me one with a Canuck flag on it. Go figure.
Terry
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Location: Medford, OR
(204.10.247.1) | Doesn't matter what rig I run, I always have a spare tire. You can never predict road hazards. I would really be bummed if I was on top of a mountain range, got a flat, and had no cell service...I would still pull the flat tire and run a single on the rear in order to slowly get home. #850 came with a rear mounted spare, but its right in the way of utilizing the full swing out of the rear door of the engine compartment (It was a pain in my shoulder bumping into it) it's getting relocated to the front bumper...eventually...It's on the list!! I just wish I was at this stage of getting 850 on the road, but right now I'm not to worried about a tire getting a flat sitting in the driveway looking like she's doing 80 m.p.h! lol | |
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Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
(75.71.239.173) | I once replaced front tires and one was worth keeping so I threw it up on the roof some years ago. When disabled in Kansas last summer I had occasion to examine it. It would've been more dangerous touching the road than a naked rim, so I threw it off the roof into the shop's pile. Never looked back.
In twelve years, I have never had a flat. I've fried my bearings, boiled over more times than I can count, and blew the water pump. But I've never had a flat. | |
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Location: Cottage Grove, OR
(68.186.124.23) | jevans - 2014-12-02 7:55 AM I once replaced front tires and one was worth keeping so I threw it up on the roof some years ago. When disabled in Kansas last summer I had occasion to examine it. It would've been more dangerous touching the road than a naked rim,... This illustrates what the sun does to uncovered tires. That is why a spare tire cover is good in addition to the appearance factor. | |
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Location: Medford, OR
(204.10.247.1) | In twelve years, I have never had a flat. I've fried my bearings, boiled over more times than I can count, and blew the water pump. But I've never had a flat.
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Jim Evans, #110
Colorado Springs
I'd rather have a flat!!! ahahahahahahaha
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Location: Ignacio Colorado
(174.125.141.216) | I've had 3 blowouts on #902, shouldn't count as the 17" tires must have been over 20 years old. And 1 blowout (#412) with an old 19.5 going 70 across I-10. Did Louisiana not get the memo that a road needs to have some form of a shoulder? Kind of like being on Red Mountain Pass here in Colorado. Goes from the white line to the gone-o-sphere. I think I get an exemption as I am always saving old coaches from terrible fates. I had one coach that the cracks in the tires opened up to double their size in a trip around the block. Took a couple more days to search out 4 used and 2 new 19.5s before driving #100 home. Most of them probably go flat in the driveway. Tires can loose 2 psi a month just sitting. At 75 psi you had better not leave it parked over 3 years without checking your tire pressure.
Dan you are funny but it's apples to oranges. If you do not drive your FMC, no spare is ever needed right. Akakakaka
Bill #-To many FMCs to list | |
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Location: Ignacio Colorado
(174.125.141.216) | I've been using army surplus back pack covers as tire covers. They work real good on the 8R19.5 tires. Some of them will need a short extension of the elastic cord that draws them down tight over the tire. Mine are the desert camo but they also come in white for winter which would be best on the coach.
Bill | |
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