Re: Save your Spare(NOT!)

From: Christopher Reck (creck@ais.net)
Date: Sat May 22 1999 - 11:42:36 EDT


Where are you ordering this from and at what price?

Chris
'99 Dakota Sport + CC 4x4 Amethyst

-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@texas.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, May 20, 1999 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Save your Spare(NOT!)

>
>Not that this will apply to all of you, but Fabtech makes an angled spare
>holder that mounts in the bed. (Getting ready to order it myself just for
>this reason.)
>
>They come in Black or Blue.
>
>
>At 10:36 AM 05/20/1999 -0400, you wrote:
>>I haven't had any reason to look under my truck yet, so I do not have any
>>knowledge of what it looks like under there. Would a SUV spare tire cover
>>help? Most of the SUVs have "hang on the back" spare tire mounts, and
they
>>have a decorative cover on them. Would this help prevent damage? Just a
>>thought...
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>>>> Alan Short <ashort@flash.net> 05/20 11:10 AM >>>
>>stevie.o@excite.com wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey
>>> I was under my truck lastnight, no reason. And I notice that the Spare
tire
>>> hangs with the beautiful aluminum $300 rim (replacement from DC) Facing
>>> down. Your spare will take all the gravel hits you can imagin, and all
the
>>> corrosion from SALT (michigan). And since I've seen a little off road,
with
>>> a little slack in the winch holding it up, the tie -up has worn a little
>>> grove in the face allready.
>>> FLIP YOUR SPARES, face up into the bed, save face.
>>>
>>> stevie.o@excite.com
>>NO,NO,NO!!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!
>>I was at the race track last year and pulled down the spare for the
>>first time (to save weight). I reinstalled it with the same logic you
>>used, I thought it would be better for the rim to be "face up".
>>Well, the bed reinforcement ribs cut 2 gashes in the beautiful 375.00
>>rim.
>>I ended up filling the gashes with aluminum impregnated body filler.
>>Install your spare "FACE DOWN" like it came from the factory!
>> Alan S.
>> gashed spare
>>
>>
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