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[2retro]

I have a spare wheel but it only fits the back, what do any of you R owners do for the front ?

Swap the rear for front and then put the spare on rear.
You really carry a spare on your R?

Good luck jacking it up at the side of the road and taking 2 wheels off then! :wtf:

 

[RCZ-R]

I have a spare wheel but it only fits the back, what do any of you R owners do for the front ?

Swap the rear for front and then put the spare on rear.
You really carry a spare on your R?

Good luck jacking it up at the side of the road and taking 2 wheels off then! :wtf:

Yep. Been there, done that.
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[tianorth]

I have a spare wheel but it only fits the back, what do any of you R owners do for the front ?

If a puncture occurs on the front, jack the rear up, remove wheel, put on replacement, lower car, jack up front remove punctured tyre, replace with the rear wheel which was removed, lower car and put punctured tyre in boot along with all tools and everything else you took out of the boot!

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[stewartwillsher]

I have a spare wheel but it only fits the back, what do any of you R owners do for the front ?

If a puncture occurs on the front, jack the rear up, remove wheel, put on replacement, lower car, jack up front remove punctured tyre, replace with the rear wheel which was removed, lower car and put punctured tyre in boot along with all tools and everything else you took out of the boot!

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eh? :thumbdown:

 

[Plecodoras]

I have a spare wheel but it only fits the back, what do any of you R owners do for the front ?

If a puncture occurs on the front, jack the rear up, remove wheel, put on replacement, lower car, jack up front remove punctured tyre, replace with the rear wheel which was removed, lower car and put punctured tyre in boot along with all tools and everything else you took out of the boot!

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eh? :thumbdown:

Thanks guys for that, Stewart this is a response to my first query as to what others do in a R when the wheel from other RCZ's is used to put on the front - it doesn't fit. This is the case for me, since I carry a spare from a GT200.
All the back wheels fit each an other, but due to the caliper on the R front brakes, only the R wheel fits.

Chris / RCZ-R, whilst discussing this with a friend, it came to me that just change the back to the front if ever I had a front puncture. So, eventually the grey matter starts to work and I came to the same conclusion as you two !!

Something I was talking to Neilgsxr69 about and he mentioned, what about if you carried a 12mm wheel spacer, would this then bring the 8.5 back wheel to nearer 9 as is the profile of the wheels of the R. There would be no need to change both sides as the other would have the original wheel on, so the geometry will be about the same?

Or of course I could just carry a spare wheel from a R !!!

Thanks and hope that makes sense....

Cheers M. :beer:

 

[stewartwillsher]

Thanks guys for that, Stewart this is a response to my first query as to what others do in a R when the wheel from other RCZ's is used to put on the front - it doesn't fit. This is the case for me, since I carry a spare from a GT200.
All the back wheels fit each an other, but due to the caliper on the R front brakes, only the R wheel fits.

Chris / RCZ-R, whilst discussing this with a friend, it came to me that just change the back to the front if ever I had a front puncture. So, eventually the grey matter starts to work and I came to the same conclusion as you two !!

Something I was talking to Neilgsxr69 about and he mentioned, what about if you carried a 12mm wheel spacer, would this then bring the 8.5 back wheel to nearer 9 as is the profile of the wheels of the R. There would be no need to change both sides as the other would have the original wheel on, so the geometry will be about the same?

Or of course I could just carry a spare wheel from a R !!!

Thanks and hope that makes sense....

Cheers M. :beer:

BUT ...
If your spare only fits the rear, then -
I assume wheel on rear is similar to the spare ...
so a rear would not fit on the front either.
Old brain may be missing something, of course.

 

[tianorth]

eh? :thumbdown:

You would need to do this as well if you had a space saver (from something like a 407).

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[stewartwillsher]

BUT ...
If your spare only fits the rear, then -
I assume wheel on rear is similar to the spare ...
so a rear would not fit on the front either.
Old brain may be missing something, of course.

CLONK! [sound of penny dropping] :eusa-think:
Sorry! :roll:
No fool like an old fool!