SPARE WHEEL CARRIER 100 SERIES

Submitted: Friday, Dec 29, 2006 at 22:21
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Hi all was just wondering if anybody has had experience with mounting a spare wheel on the barn door of a standard hundred series cruiser. It seems like a good alternative to a kaymar or similar but I've heard a few rumours that the doors can sag with the extra weight?
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Reply By: Peter 2 - Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:58

Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:58
Yes there is no way the standard door will take the weight of a tyre and wheel without extensive reinforcing inside the door. Then you will have to reinforce the pillar and the door hinges.
Given that an improperly designed bumper mount carrier will fail the door wouldn't last long at all.
Reminds me of the troopy owner we came across years ago west of Windorah, he had pulled up to make a cuppa and walked around the back of his truck to see four big holes in the door skin and no spare tyre!
He had just bought the vehicle secondhand from a caryard and they had bolted the tojo tyre bracket straight onto the door skin of an unreinforced rear door instead of the proper door with all the internal bracing.
We hadn't seen his spare and bracket on the road either!
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Reply By: Member - Hughesy (SA) - Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:42

Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:42
JTW, definately don't try mounting it straight to the door. My rear doors are sagged and rub at the top at times and they don't have anything hanging off them. Shop around - I got my replacement rear bumber and rear wheel mount for $1400 brand new. I have seen a cheaper alternative that keeps the original bumper but mounts off the chassis somehow for around $500.
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Reply By: Mikee5 (QLD) - Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:48

Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:48
Try holding a spare wheel and shaking it. Then multiply this by about 1000 and you get an idea of the stresses involved. Putting a spare wheel on a door is a cheap way out for manufacturers and can be OK if you stay off corrigations etc. Even doors 'designed' to hold a spare can fail. BTW I found in my research that if you want two spares on the back - only the TJM one will accommodate the LHS barn door. Both Kaymar and ARB said theirs will not allow a LHS wheel.
What is really wrong with the spare underneath anyway?

Mike.
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Follow Up By: ev700 - Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 12:38

Saturday, Dec 30, 2006 at 12:38
"What is wrong with the spare underneath?"!

That's fighting words! How can any aftermarket entrepreneur expect to live in luxury with stirrers like you around? Anyhow, every reader of the monthly 4X4 magazines knows that several hundred kilos of BHP steel need to be added to any fourby. You take the underneath wheel out, you put the big fuel tank back in its place. Then you put big lumps of steel on the back, front and top so that you need a complete new suspension. What could be more simple than that?
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