Spare wheels for motorhomes

That's good service, David. The point about The Hebrides is Sunday Observance. No washing on lines, no shops open, no garages, no services and so on.

so the point is mute anyway, even changing your own wheel is 'work' so would be frowned upon, so sitting it out and enjoy your surroundings is not a bad thing  

I always wondered with caravans, why you can't spec the same wheel size/type as your car, meaning you only have to carry one spare for both.

TW wrote "Hmm, 24 hrs at the roadside on Lewis. That'll be fun😂😂😂"

Sounds a better option than a lay-by on the A1.

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There'd be a lot of lopped sided caravans if you fitted the car's spare to it. My caravan has 14" rims versus 20" on the towcar .... 😉

Depends where in the islands you are of course,  but I hate being totally reliant on others. And carrying a spare wheel  and even changing it is not a hassle really, I would just take my time and do it methodically. As I have done before.

I have just paid a large bill to have the spare wheel carrier replaced on my Peugeot Boxer based motorhome. The winch on the original carrier had failed. In future, I'll instruct the garage to remove the spare when the van goes in for the annual service/MOT, clean and grease before replacing. The carrier has a history of failure and was subject to a safety recall in 2011, see the Dec edition of MMM magazine of 2011.

Keep Safe, Howard

They are quite tolerant of those from a different religion carrying out work on a Sunday as long as those persons obey their own holy day observances.  Why, I remember when one could get a haircut on a Sunday but only from from a Jewish barber.

 As a relative newcomer to motorhomes, and shortly to embark on a cross- European trip that will include Eastern Europe, I'm very concerned there is currently no spare wheel. (I just don't trust the gunge as from experience with cars, it is useless with any damage to a side wall.) So somehow, for peace of mind, I have to accommodate the weight of the tyre and the rim. Suspending it underneath seems fraught with problems - not least of which is precisely where, weight distribution and access in an emergency (especially if on the side of a busy motorway or at the side of a road without proper hard shoulder). My current thinking is in the garage lying flat on the floor in the centre (to get the excess weight as low and central as possible) or against the garage front wall (away from the back of the vehicle). Fixing to the external rear as some do surely places additional weight potentially higher up and further away from the rear wheels. (My thinking also is that if there was an issue, a rescue service might be more willing to fit a spare wheel and tyre that I am carrying as opposed to having to source one at the time.) I appreciate this discussion trail goes back to 2019 but I'm hopeful someone might pick this up with their views.