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Does anyone sell new space saver spare tires? #1075461
09/15/11 11:59 AM
09/15/11 11:59 AM
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If I have a rim that will work, does anyone sell new space saver spare tires? Just the tire.
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Last edited by TinCuda; 09/15/11 12:00 PM.

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Re: Does anyone sell new space saver spare tires? [Re: TinCuda] #1075462
09/15/11 12:19 PM
09/15/11 12:19 PM
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No.
And if you can find an NOS or one removed off a rim, it will be a real challenge to install on your rim.
I went through that earlier this year. After a great deal of searching, I finally found a correct BF Goodrich tire compact space saver tire on ebay. A local Mopar guy who has an auto repair shop said he'd be happy to install the tire for me with the tire machine in his shop and it would only take a few minutes.
He and a couple other guys including his friend from a nearby Goodyear shop spent close to an hour and a half wrestling with that tire trying to get it on the rim! He did a search here and we found a post by Jules about installing these compact tires, and did find a "trick" to getting it to seat, which is to inflate it momentarily. If you don't leave it inflated for more than a few minutes and then fully deflate it, it will return to its correct compact size.
After we were done, we figured with what we'd learned with my tire, we could probably cut the time down to install one, but it would still take maybe 45 minutes and a lot of wrestling and sweat to get the one of those tires correctly installed.
Thanks again Gary aka moparman440!!!







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