Back Door 200tdi

The spare's not an MOT test item? What's the logic to that then? MOTs seem to be more and more of a farce as time goes on!

Sparks said:

The spare's not an MOT test item? What's the logic to that then? MOTs seem to be more and more of a farce as time goes on!

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The logic is. That you can carry as many tyres in your vehicle as you like. If they were bald you could get done for having a bald spare tyre. conversly if your spare is bald you could claim it isn't your spare at all and your simply taking it to the tip. So in effect it becomes unenforcable. So commonsense took over and they changed the law.

Toad said:

redhand

Good news for those of us that want to be rid of the spare then. Personally I think the Disco would look sort of naked without a spare hanging of some part of it.

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Infact, I'd like a spare wheel on all my doors to stop those stupid b******s smacking into my paintwork on supermarket carparks.

Toad said:

Infact, I'd like a spare wheel on all my doors to stop those stupid b******s smacking into my paintwork on supermarket carparks.

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Fit rock sliders with tree slider extensions on. that stops the buggers and much neater than 4 spare wheels.

redhand said:

The logic is. That you can carry as many tyres in your vehicle as you like. If they were bald you could get done for having a bald spare tyre. conversly if your spare is bald you could claim it isn't your spare at all and your simply taking it to the tip. So in effect it becomes unenforcable. So commonsense took over and they changed the law.

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Point taken. My first impulse was to suggest that it'd be better to enforce having at least one spare that was servicable but then there's bound to be some vehicle out there that can't carry one isn't there!

Sparks said:

Point taken. My first impulse was to suggest that it'd be better to enforce having at least one spare that was servicable but then there's bound to be some vehicle out there that can't carry one isn't there!

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Yes I think there's a couple that come new with a can of tyre sealant instead of a spare wheel

redhand said:

Yes I think there's a couple that come new with a can of tyre sealant instead of a spare wheel

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Ford Focus RS being one of em

Toad said:

Personally I think the Disco would look sort of naked without a spare hanging of some part of it.

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I KNEW there was something wrong about the Disco 3...

PASTMASTER said:

I KNEW there was something wrong about the Disco 3...

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You mean apart from looking like a van?

Sparks said:

You mean apart from looking like a van?

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I like vans. My car before the one before the one before the one before the one before this one was a white Sherpa. Brilliant in London traffic, captain's seats and a double bed in the back. Manual gearshift though.

And it fell apart after about 80 000 miles.

Oh - and it was REALLY cr*p offroad.

Well when I had my Range Rover (about 2 years ago) I was traveling back from Stoke with 2 spare wheels on the roof rack (long story! Bought them to use the rims to replace a couple of mine - so I'd got a spare and to replace one of mine that was buckled!) they had smaller tires than I was running.

I got a puncture. Found myself on the side of the motorway with no viable spare wheel option. One of the spares would not pump up using my cigarette lighter pump. I could have ran with odd sized tires and risk blowing the centre diff within a few miles but as I'd not long replaced it and IIRC got stung for £150 to sort it out I was not keen on this idea! Tried to get the AA to come out to recover me and they told me to do one as I was not carrying a suitable spare wheel.

Don't know if they have changed their rules but I think I am right in thinking its still the case that they won't come out if you get a puncture and have no suitable spare wheel.

In the end I managed to get them to agree to come and tow me off the motorway to somewhere where it was safe for me to remove the rear prop shaft. They agreed due to the fact that I pointed out that there was no proper hard shoulder where I was and that no one in their right mind would attempt to change a spare wheel where I was let alone jack up a vehicle and get underneath it with lorries going past at 70-80mph within an inch or so of the vehicle! As it ended up when the AA guy arrived he just pulled me on the back and took me home.