Place for an extra spare tire
Just bought an 18' TT (Pioneer by Fleetwood) and it came with two spares tires. One is mounted on the rear bumper and is very secure. I was wondering if anyone has mounted a spare under the battery ...
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drcurran wrote:
The TT does have good tires on it. The previous owner provide us with two spares and his explanation for two was that since the tires on the unit were two on each side (one behind the other) if you ran over something and damaged the first tire it would be possible for the second tire to hit the same object and be damaged. Probably not that likely, but better safe than sorry!
That's an old, tired argument. By that same logic, your TV tires would hit the object first, and then you'd need a total of 4 spares. Besides, you can limp down the road by replacing just one tire and affixing the other axle in an "up" position...just in case you had 2 tires blow at the same time.
But to answer your question, why not just mount it the bumper like the other one? You can either buy another mount or fab up something similar. Another option (if you don't have a tire cover or don't care about the cover) is to run some longer bolts through the spare tire bolt holes and attach the extra spare to it, kinda double-decker style.
