peterholden
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Please can someone tell my what size spare wheel I need for my 13 plate Mylife with 16" alloy wheels. It has to fit under the boot floor.
Thanks
Peter
Thanks
Peter
Please can someone tell my what size spare wheel I need for my 13 plate Mylife with 16" alloy wheels. It has to fit under the boot floor.
Thanks
Peter
Sorry to butt in!
We recently bought a brand new Qubo Lounge and paid for a factory fitted full sized spare wheel as an optional extra. The car has 195/55 R16 alloys but found out today after a puncture, that the spare wheel is actually a 185/65 R15 steel with a speed restriction (presumably because of the different wheel size).
Not happy and will be contacting the Fiat dealer tomorrow.
We've had a Qubo before and post fitted a spare wheel carrier so I was particularly interested to read your comment that the bracket for the alloy and steel wheels is different. Initially I thought the carrier cable/bracket had been updated and I was just finding the new bracket more fiddly - ended up putting the damaged tyre in the back and tying the cable to the towbar as I didn't want to risk winding it back 'untensioned'.
The Fiat dealer we use is really good but, in anticipation of being fobbed off, is it unreasonable to expect i) a full sized spare to be the same size as those fitted to the car and ii) for the factory fitted carrier bracket to be suitable for both the car wheels and the spare supplied with it?
Do you know if it is possible to change the bracket on the cable to fit our alloys - we still have a compatible alloy from our old Qubo that was written off.
Appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.
hi
I have 17'' alloys on mine and have a 15'' steel as the spare
The rolling radius is the same for the spare due to the size of the tyre that is fitted to the steel wheel
It is a full size spare
LUIGI