Spare Tire Mount..Rear Bumper Best Location?
We have been leaving our spare tire (mounted on rim) at home but with a upcoming trip to Arizona, we want to carry it. Is the rear bumper the best place to mount it? If so, should it be mounted in the...
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NOT on the square tubular steel bumper unless you reinforce it. No kidding here! After about 30,000 miles, our bumper was tearing where the tubing meets the brackets that bolt it to the frame. A new bumper isn't much over $100 but that's just for the tubing. No brackets and the brackets require welding.
I hate to use up the space and it's heavy to get at, but ours now lives under the queen bed. And under-coach mounting would be great, and a crank-up mounting even better, but we don't have any underbody space that isn't occupied. Hard to believe in a 31-footer, but true. Wish we could, but under the bed it stays.
We've had reports here of a Class C owner having the spare tire mount tear the bumper till the tire dragged on the road. A family member tore the tubular bumper on a popup trailer carrying gas cans on a clamp-on bracket. Those steel tube bumpers aren't really good for much beyond a weak first line of defense in an impact. Far better than a fiberglass end cap. Not really good for sewer hose storage either. The wet hose causes the bumper to rust from the inside out.
I hate to use up the space and it's heavy to get at, but ours now lives under the queen bed. And under-coach mounting would be great, and a crank-up mounting even better, but we don't have any underbody space that isn't occupied. Hard to believe in a 31-footer, but true. Wish we could, but under the bed it stays.
We've had reports here of a Class C owner having the spare tire mount tear the bumper till the tire dragged on the road. A family member tore the tubular bumper on a popup trailer carrying gas cans on a clamp-on bracket. Those steel tube bumpers aren't really good for much beyond a weak first line of defense in an impact. Far better than a fiberglass end cap. Not really good for sewer hose storage either. The wet hose causes the bumper to rust from the inside out.
