Spare tire and rim of some sort I had my first flat..

I'm also now convinced. Local wrecker in Adel reckons he has a few FG Falcon spares, so I'm off on Friday to collect one AUD75.

 

Went to a Ford wrecker today and bought the Falcon FG 17" space saver spare and installed it. Some photos to show. Amazing how many plumbing fittings can be repurposed. Total cost less than $100 with a Holden scissor jack included. The front prop is a piece of 40mm PVC pipe cut to 127mm with a silicon rubber sink plug seal to cushion the tyre. All fits neatly. The center bolt is screwed into a nut rivet in the reinforcement strut at the bottom of the well.

 

Yes it's the rural distances and lack of phone coverage!

 

Just a thought to save some money.. couldn't you get a normal 17" spare and also carry a jack stand in the car. If the front tire develops a flat you put the spare on the front, if the rear develops a flat you remove front wheel and put car on jack stand and then put the front wheel on the back and put the spare on the front.

 

I recently had a flat on the front and used my new(?) space-saver on the front left for a day in suburbia. No problems as long as one is sensible. I gave it a squirt while accelerating from stop on a straight street just to see how bad the traction is. It's bad, took no effort for the traction control to kick in. If a front flat occurs on a country road/highway, especially a curvey one, I would do the rear to front swap. But before that I would use a 4WD plug kit that I carry. Much better a ribbon plug than a space saver spare.

As far as I'm concerned the space saver is there for the wife, the suburban driver, to tell the road side service to fit rather than a flat top to wherever.

 

My 2020 Kona is in the process of being bought back by HMA. I had purchased a spare tire at a local wrecking yard that is no longer needed. I tried to post an ad in the classified but for some reason I am not allowed to do that. Anyway, if someone wants a spare tire I have one that you can have if you pay the shipping cost. The tire is a 135/90/17 donut-style spare from a Genesis. I do not know the exact year of the Genesis but I did test fit it to my Kona and it worked fine. I live in Northern California near zip code 95376. I'm happy to pass this along to another who can use it.

 

For some reason the site says I do not have permission to post in the classified section.

 

The boot floor is very thin gauge but it has a stiffening rib along the centre line. So I pushed out the two drain bungs and used these holes for mounting clamp plates either side of the stiffening web.
I used 6mm galvanised mild steel for the bent bracket (used a 12 ton press) and 75mm dia spacer washers (79mm hole saw) which sit on the area over where the rubber bungs originally went.
I used a hardware shop piece of 4.5mm galvanised steel strip under the car and two 10mm HT bolts to clamp the top and bottom steel brakets together. Rubber gaskets were made from an old tyre inner tube. I had to nibble a bit of the plastic under splash guard to clear the bolt heads.
The top bracket was fitted with a 12mm eye bolt as the tie down point. I used a 16mm hook bolt (out of a turnbuckle) from this eye upwards through the wheel centre and bolted a large diameter aluminium disc above the wheel centre.
I bought a complete Kona recovery jack kit from a wreckers for $40 which fits underneath the wheel, along with foot pump, Hyundai electric pump, some tools, a tyre plug repair kit and a bottle of slime.
There is a 7mm sheet of plywood beneath the wheel with a centre hole for the wheel tie bolt.
With the wheel mounted concave side upwards, my level 2 charger cable bag fits inside. The trickle charger and a 10m extension lead also fit around the outside edges.
Ready for the 1800 km of pot holes between Melbourne and the Sunshine Coast

 

Should have gone to a truck stop