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GrandMom97
Explorer
Feb 19, 2017

Spare tire for Isata

We have a used but new to us 2008 Dynamax Isata Touring Sedan. 25ft. Shortly after purchasing it we wanted to visit an ill family member so headed out on the first trip a few months ago, within 200 miles of home. We goofed, as when we purchased our other two rvs, we would replace the tires first thing. Did we learn a lesson! We had a blow out on an inside rear tire, fortunately it did not cause any major issues. We discovered however we did not have a spare tire on the rig. Called our insruance roadside assistance and told them our situation and asked them if they could locate the nearest tire dealer to help us. We were able to still drive the rig. She called us back after contacting a tire dealer to see if they had the size tire we needed; gave us directions to get to them, which was about 13 miles from our location. We were able to get it replaced to finish our trip. The tire dealer looked at the other tires and shared there was some signs of dry rot on the rest of the tires, but not too much. We decided we would replace them after we got home.
We decided to use the replaced tire after blow out for a spare, and purchased new tires all around.
Problem is that we now have no place to store the spare. We thought it would fit in the trunk storage, but just couple inches too tall, can't get it in there.

Does anyone owning a Isata touring sedan have a spare tire? if so, please share how it is ?mounted? or carried?
Looked under the rv and cannot find any area that a spare could be mounted.

We plan a few more shorter trips around Texas, but will be doing a trip to Georgia and Tennesse in the summer. Just didn't want to be without a spare for the trip, even though we now have new tires. Just want to be prepared... guess we are a "Murphy's Law" kind of folks. We would not try to change it ourselves, but contact roadside assistance to change it. Having a spare also will save money should we have tire issue.

Any advise will be welcomed
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  • Travelin2's avatar
    Travelin2
    Explorer
    Feb 19, 2017
    cgmartine wrote:
    Have you looked under the bed? Sometimes, some motorhomes have the water tank under the bed, while others use it as storage area. Even if not, you might be able to fix the bed so that you can raise it and stick the tire inside.


    DO NOT DO THIS. Tires have been known to burst while in storage. It would destroy the inside of your motorhome and if you were in the bed at the time, you may not survive. I'm not a Nervous Nellie but there is a thing called common sense.

    If you want to get some respect for the amount of energy pent up in our RV tires, do a google search on tires bursting.
  • j-d's avatar
    j-d
    Explorer II
    Feb 19, 2017
    Baja Man bought a wind-up underfloor spare tire carrier and made an adapter mount shown in This Thread. If there's no room under, none inside, I'd say have a welder adapt a trailer drawbar to serve as a spare tire carrier. Roadmaster sells a dreadfully expensive one, that lets you swing the tire up and down to/from storage position. You don't need that if somebody else is changing a tire for you.
  • cgmartine's avatar
    cgmartine
    Explorer
    Feb 19, 2017
    Have you looked under the bed? Sometimes, some motorhomes have the water tank under the bed, while others use it as storage area. Even if not, you might be able to fix the bed so that you can raise it and stick the tire inside.
  • photobug's avatar
    photobug
    Explorer
    Feb 19, 2017
    I don't have Isata, but have issues with storing the spare as well. Currently it's in the lower storage compartment, which isn't ideal since I'd like to use it for storage. Looking underneath the coach, it looks like there's some room to mount it behind the waste tanks using a tire lift like is on my van. It will take welding some support bars to the frame, and finding a way to turn the winch, but it should work. I've seen this done on several vehicles, including stock ford van and my old travel trailer. Otherwise, they make bumper and trailer hitch tire mounts if you're not using that space. I'm told it's pretty common for rv's not to have a spare.

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