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whjco
Explorer
Jul 07, 2019

Spare Tire Rack Failure - Third trip out with new RV.

Greetings friends, I'm not posting this to rant as much as to make some of you aware of a potential safety issue. I took our new Cherokee 274rfk out this week for its third trip since we purchased ...
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JRscooby
Explorer II
Jul 07, 2019
Lynnmor wrote:
I believe he is talking about this type of spare tire carrier and not the typical bumper mounted one.


I don't see a spare
One issue is a bumper that is cheap enough to put on a RV, and strong enough to hold a mounted tire bouncing that far behind the axle would be heavy. And adding weight at the very back of a trailer is never a good thing...

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