Re: A new great spare tire debate?

["David Teitelbaum <jtrealty@xxxx>" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

The garbage bag is a great idea if you have to put the tire on the 
seat but another way to do it is to open the rear sunshade and place 
the tire on the engine cover. Then you use the bungee cord you keep in 
the car for this emergency and use it to hold the sunshade down. BTW 
the engine cover is a great way to deliver pizza too! The front tire 
will fit in a garbage bag behind the passenger seat if you move it all 
the way up (and have a small cooperative passenger). The luggage rack 
is the best way to go assuming you have it and a way to tie the tire 
to it.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Scott Mueller" <scott.a.mueller@xxxx> 
wrote:
> To carry the flat tire, you can either place it in a large trash bag 
(that
> you brilliantly stashed in your car) and carry it in the front 
passenger
> seat or you can strap it down on your luggage rack.
> 
> Scott Mueller
> 002981
> RNDOLA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: content22207 <brobertson@xxxx>
> [mailto:brobertson@xxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:54 PM
> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [DML] A new great spare tire debate?
> 
> 
> Relax people. My D had no spare. I needed something to fit a 
particular
> well, a particular bolt pattern, and two different sized brake 
calipers (14"
> rims won't clear the rear). Went to the junkyard and found suitable 
rim (no
> offense to VW people, but they apparently weren't big sellers in 
rural North
> Carolina -- junkyard didn't have one). Bought a brand new tire to 
fit. FWIW,
> my rubber is brand new and designed to be a primary tire.
> 
> The *REAL* question should be: OK, I've got the spare mounted on the 
rear,
> now what do I do with the flat 15"?
> 
> Bill Robertson
> #5939
> 
> 
> 
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