E-450 Spare Tire carriers

[mleekamp]

I've been putting together a spare tire kit for our C. I know some of you would never consider doing this, so this is geared towards those that do carry a spare....and hope to never use it. **Please, keep this to HOW to carry the spare...not all the other pros/cons/items needed to change it...I've already had posts on that! :W

How do you carry the spare? I thought I'd go with a hitch mounted unit, but expensive...and interferes with our Jeep dinghy. I wish they mounted underneath...

Any ideas? What have you done? Anyone make an underside carrier?

[Dusty_R]

Another way is to put a receiver hitch on the front, then a spare tire carrier that mounts to the receiver.
It does not look all that nice, and some will say that it blocks the air flow. I have yet to hear from anyone that has done that to find that air flow was a problem.
And it moves some weight to the front.

[Kit_Carson]

My 2008 Winnebago came from the factory with a spare carrier mounted underneath. The spare has never been on the ground!

[Desert_Captain]

On a cross country trip several years ago the bumper mount fractured and I nearly lost the spare. Since then I have yet to see a bumper mount that doesn't make me nervous. When we passed through Elkhart I went to the Nexus factory and in addition to having them add an extra seat belt in the coach I had them build a permeant spare tire mount under the rear of the coach.

Sorry, I don't have any pics but they welded a framework out of which a threaded rod comes down through the tire and a steel bar runs athwartship that the tire snugs up against. You just loosen the nut on the threaded shaft and the tire drops down and out. Yes it is a PITA to wrestle with but that is what the ERS guys are for... at least I have a good spare mounted on a rim ready to deploy... which came in very handy last October out on I-10 when my outside/driverside dually grenaded.

:C

[IAMICHABOD]

You could mount under side of the frame as Baja Man did

Here is a link to that thread with pictures!