Spare Wheel

[starlet sportif]

hello to everyone on the forum, just bought a used auris sr but i want to change the inflation kit to a space saver tyre i have been quoted £ 131 for the wheel and tyre from my local toyota dealer, does this seem a good bye, many thanks

[blitzchaser]

thats big money i'm sure you could pick up a space saver wheel from a breakers for a lot less...

[Hoof Hearted]

Hi.

I'm intrigued. What exactly is a space saver wheel? I mean, does it fold up or something?

[Red Yaris 54]

I have just bought a 16 inch spacesaver wheel and tyre for my New Verso S. The T Spirit does not have the spacesaver as standard and is supplied with a repair "gunk" bottle and an electric compressor Not much good if you split out a tyre on the motorway!

The tyre was difficult to source (14 days delivery)......total cost £147 including VAT fitting tyre and valve to wheel.....I opted to retain my tyre repair bottle and compressor (Belt and Braces)

[Bos]

Hi.

I'm intrigued. What exactly is a space saver wheel? I mean, does it fold up or something?

A space saver is narrower than a standard tyre and set to a much higher pressue. It has max speed limit of 50mph.

Because it is narrow it takes less room in the boot area.

[Hoof Hearted]

Hi.

I'm intrigued. What exactly is a space saver wheel? I mean, does it fold up or something?

A space saver is narrower than a standard tyre and set to a much higher pressue. It has max speed limit of 50mph.

Because it is narrow it takes less room in the boot area.

Bos. Thanks for the explanation. I had no idea.

I don't see the point of them though. You still have the problem of having to take the wheel off and one also still needs to cart it around everywhere.

Before my Auris I had a Primera. I bought it with 11 miles on the clock. When I sold the Primera there were 102,340 miles on it. Before the Primera I owned a Ford Escort. That vehicle had around 37000 miles on the clock when I bought it and by the time I traded it in for the Primera it had done over 114000 miles. The Escort wasn't the first car I owned either. In fact from as far back as 1977, about 18 months after I passed my driving test, I've owned various vehicles, including motorbikes.

So I can claim to have driven vehicles for a fair number of miles.

When I come to think about it, in all the thirty five years or so that I have been driving, I have only had to change a wheel maybe three or four times. Every time I wished that all I needed to do was pump the tyre up again. The little "bottle of gunge" seems to me to be exactly what I wished for.

Also, what with my subscription to Britannia Rescue, I don't anticipate needing to fix such a problem myself anyway.

For the prices quoted here for space saver wheel, I don't think I would have seen any return for the money. I will have changed my vehicle long before.

If the said bottle of gunge cost the same as that quoted by others for a space saver wheel then things might be different. Even so, one will still save more space with the gunge bottle. Why save the space in there anyway? And look at all that mass that one doesn't need to cart about everywhere anymore.