Anyone relocated their spare wheel?

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Anyone relocated their spare wheel?

Post by Wickmyster » Sun May 05, 2013 9:15 pm

Think I am going to do this in the next month or so

http://www.miata.net/garage/mufflermod.html 8)

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Post by ryanhorton1973 » Mon May 06, 2013 8:19 am

This is something I am really interested in doing. When you have done it please let us know of the outcome and maybe photograph the procedure for others to follow.

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Post by marcellarius » Mon May 06, 2013 9:48 am

I relocated mine to the driveway... that might be inconvenient should I get a flat.

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Post by Timmo » Mon May 06, 2013 11:30 am

When I had my NA, I also just left my spare in the Garage and took a can of 'goo' with me- Reason being, if I was travelling away and got a flat, there would be no room to carry the standard rim in the car/in the boot anyway!
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Post by Skilfil » Mon May 06, 2013 11:31 am

I'm thinking about doing away with my spare anyway, can't put a mismatched rolling diameter wheel on the rear. Diff wouldn't like it at all. I'd rather not drive on a spare anyway.

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Post by chris » Mon May 06, 2013 11:47 am

Skilfil wrote:I'm thinking about doing away with my spare anyway, can't put a mismatched rolling diameter wheel on the rear. Diff wouldn't like it at all. I'd rather not drive on a spare anyway.
Mine is out for good. I would rather pay a tow truck than risk driving on 3 15x8 and one 12x3 or whatever haha
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Post by marcellarius » Mon May 06, 2013 12:16 pm

When using the space saver with an LSD, you're supposed to take a wheel off the front, put the space saver on there, then put the front wheel on the back.

I figure I can call a tow truck or phone a friend :)

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Post by tomtikki » Mon May 06, 2013 1:37 pm

Most insurance companies provide roadside assist anyway, used mine last year when my cambelt ate itself.
No mucking around, tow truck there in 15min, me & car delivered home with no stress. Totally worth the couple $ extra per month!
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Post by broomfish » Mon May 06, 2013 10:38 pm

I found the space saver fits nicely behind the passenger seat.
Passenger needs to have short legs

Re putting spare on front and front on rear, similar system on the evos with brembos for slightly different reason. The spare will not fit on the front with the big calipers so you have to fit the spare to the rear and the rear to the front
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Post by Denz » Tue May 07, 2013 5:29 pm

Id love to see you do this, if you could list what you did that'd be awesome.
Space is needed

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Post by MrGrey » Tue May 07, 2013 5:46 pm

looks like a great mod. I mainly just use the boot for groceries so I have not really run into space issues yet. Mine is still in the boot and the inner cavity of the space saver holds an emergency first aid kit, jumper lead kit and one of those emergency starter batteries (a small motorcycle sized battery that if you get caught with a flat battery you plug it into the cigarette lighter and it dribbles charge to start the vehicle)

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Post by dynofiend » Tue May 07, 2013 7:48 pm

I question the logic of a spare wheel. You find that other parts on the car fail as often, if not more so than the tyres get a puncture.

With regard to the relocation mod, I hear that replacing the muffler with a smaller capacity one (as is required) can result in unpleasant droning at motorway speeds, as the original is 'tuned'. Could be wrong though :)

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