Mini Cooper S spare wheel needed please

Obsolete01

Hello all,

Ok so I have a 2007 Mini Cooper S and I want a spate wheel for it...simply because I hate the ride of the run flat Tyres and I currently need 4 (well in a few weeks) and I want to buy normal ones.

Can anyone please help me in finding a steel wheel that will for it please.

Atlantic Dawn

Either scrapyard or main dealer is your best option. Are you sure there is space in them to accommodate a spare wheel?

colm_mcm

Do you have the centre exhaust? Pretty sure it makes it a no-go along with battery in boot.


Bottle of goo and pump might be only option. That's all I have in the civic and touch wood its been ok 2 years on.

Obsolete01

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Either scrapyard or main dealer is your best option. Are you sure there is space in them to accommodate a spare wheel?

Yep will fit in the boot....unfortunately no dealer has "one listed" so they can't help....

Obsolete01

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Either scrapyard or main dealer is your best option. Are you sure there is space in them to accommodate a spare wheel?

Yep will fit in the boot....unfortunately no dealer has "one listed" so they can't help....

Obsolete01

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do you have the centre exhaust?

Yes I sure do

colm_mcm

Doesn't the spare normally go under the car?

Obsolete01

colm_mcm wrote: »

Doesn't the spare normally go under the car?

No idea....I'll keep it in the boot.

colm_mcm

If you get a puncture on a front wheel, you'd have to:
take a back wheel off,
put the spare on the back wheel,
Take the front wheel off
Put wheel you took off the back onto the front

As the cooper S has big brakes, so you need big wheels!

Obsolete01

colm_mcm wrote: »

If you get a puncture on a front wheel, you'd have to:
take a back wheel off,
put the spare on the back wheel,
Take the front wheel off
Put wheel you took off the back onto the front

As the cooper S has big brakes, so you need big wheels!

Ah man no way....jez....I priced 4 new Tyres for the Mini and cheapest I can get is 580.

So what I am thinking is to buy 4 standard Tyres and a spare...but now that your saying that I don't know if it is worth it

colm_mcm

I'd buy a spare wheel and keep it in your garage. If you're in a situation where the tyre is fecked, get someone to bring it to you.

For slow punctures, regular punctures you have the gunk and pump.

testicle

Just get a bottle of gunk and a compressor

unkel

colm_mcm wrote: »

Bottle of goo and pump might be only option. That's all I have in the civic and touch wood its been ok 2 years on.

Same here. And nearly everyone with fully comp insurance nowadays has free tow away service included.

PaddyFagan

I have one of these

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Automotive-RAC600-Compressor-Including/dp/B000UPEHJU/ref=sr_1_3?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1412715192&sr=1-3&keywords=car+pump

And a bottle of this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slime-10129-473ml-Tubeless-Sealant/dp/B00575EVTY/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1412715424&sr=1-1&keywords=tyre+sealant

Paddy

Obsolete01

colm_mcm wrote: »

I'd buy a spare wheel and keep it in your garage. If you're in a situation where the tyre is fecked, get someone to bring it to you.

For slow punctures, regular punctures you have the gunk and pump.

But buy a spare wheel from where tho...Colm Quinn said they don't have any

TBi

I have a mini cooper s R56. I changed to normal tyres years ago. Just keep a can of Holts tyre weld in the boot (not slime, I heard bad things about that).

A spare tyre will take up the whole boot. Plus as one poster pointed out the breaks are too big on front for small wheels.

No idea why another poster said there was a battery in the boot. Mine is up front.

Obsolete01

TBi wrote: »

I have a mini cooper s R56. I changed to normal tyres years ago. Just keep a can of Holts tyre weld in the boot (not slime, I heard bad things about that).

A spare tyre will take up the whole boot. Plus as one poster pointed out the breaks are too big on front for small wheels.

No idea why another poster said there was a battery in the boot. Mine is up front.

OK and this might be a silly question but if you have to use the can on the tyre does that mean you need to buy a new tyre after?

Donnelly117

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do you have the centre exhaust? Pretty sure it makes it a no-go along with battery in boot.


Bottle of goo and pump might be only option. That's all I have in the civic and touch wood its been ok 2 years on.

The battery isn't in the boot of the r56. Spare won't go under the boot floor so will pretty much fill the boot... And as mentioned already a spare won't for over the brakes on the front... Hots tire weld is the way to go... And doesn't require the tire to be replaced, if can be fixed

TBi

Obsolete01 wrote: »

OK and this might be a silly question but if you have to use the can on the tyre does that mean you need to buy a new tyre after?

Never had an issue. The tyre fitter just washes it off the wheel. They might moan about it but its an easy enough job and you can always just go somewhere else if they won't. It's nice if you let them know up front though.

colm_mcm

TBi wrote: »

I have a mini cooper s R56.
No idea why another poster said there was a battery in the boot. Mine is up front.

r53 has. My bad.

johnayo

just remember, if you go with the tyre weld, lts not going to anything for you if you damage the sidewall off a kerb.

Special Circumstances

colm_mcm wrote: »

r53 has. My bad.

Indeed it does, and there would be fup all space with a wheel in there.

On the topic of R53/R50, the brakes are the same size afaik unless upgraded. R53 jcw brakes are as big as R56 S standard brakes tho.
So for an r53 I dunno would you have to swap wheels around to clear brakes.

Would there still have been any R53s that got reg'd in 2007? Dunno.

I also agree with the gunk/compressor/roadsiderescue option. Argos had a good deal on a tidy Ring gunk plus compressor kit not so long ago.