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VW PASSAT SPARE WHEEL

  • 01-02-2011 10:12pm
    #1
    kildarelad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭


    Friend bought a 2010 VW passat and has no spare wheel got him one for it does anybody know how to secure the wheel down in the boot as it doesnt have the peice in the middle of the bootwell where you used to screw the centre of the rim down


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    If there's any holes or latches you could try putting a bungee cord across it. Double sided tape would work too but may be awkward when you need to take the wheel out.

    bungee_cord_plastic_hooks.jpg


  • #3
    badboyblast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    Who buys a car with no spare wheel!!


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    badboyblast wrote: »
    Who buys a car with no spare wheel!!

    Lots of new cars don't come with a spare wheel these days. It helps manufacturers reduce costs.


  • #5
    Rulmeq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Rulmeq


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Lots of new cars don't come with a spare wheel these days. It helps manufacturers reduce costs.

    Not just costs, that's how all those 2Litre diesel German cars manage to squeeze into tax band B


  • #6
    badboyblast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 753 ✭✭✭badboyblast


    I can understand cars fitted with run flats but where there should be a wheel and none.


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  • #7
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    badboyblast wrote: »
    I can understand cars fitted with run flats but where there should be a wheel and none.

    ...looked at a new Audi today - and there's no place to put one, even if you had a spare wheel - battery is smack, bang in middle of 'well.

    Tis the norm- I pulled up on the motorway one evening in the cold weather, when I saw a lady standing at the side of the road with flasher's on. FL tyre was toast, car had no spare - had to call out a flat bed - sidewall damage. Car was a 2010 (iirc) Focus.

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  • #8
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I've run flats too but managed to get my hands on a space saver, no tyre well so it is lying flat in the boot under a blanket. The run flats will be ditched for regular tyres as soon as they are worn.


  • #9
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    galwaytt wrote: »
    ...looked at a new Audi today - and there's no place to put one, even if you had a spare wheel - battery is smack, bang in middle of 'well.

    My audi has its battery in the wheel well. This then has a shaped plastic cover, over which the space saver wheel goes.

    I dont think audi have gone the run flat route at all so it must come with a spare. Im open to correction though


  • #10
    vetstu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭vetstu


    Was looking at a new Auris with a friend, No spare wheel either, just a compressor and a can of s***. I wouldn't feel comfortable driving round with no spare wheel


  • #11
    voteforpedro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭voteforpedro


    is one of these what u need?

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-PASSAT-GOLF-JETTA-CC-SPARE-WHEEL-HOLDER-/400190863211?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5d2d3bf76b

    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VW-PASSAT-GOLF-JETTA-CC-SPARE-WHEEL-HOLDER-BOLT-/400190863238?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5d2d3bf786


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  • #12
    kildarelad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭kildarelad


    is one of these what u need?
    Good man thats the one


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