Lezersvraag: does your car have a spare wheel?

Posted on 12-11-2015 at 18:13 by sir_smokalot – 148 Comments”

‘Yes, of course, what a silly question’ was 20 years ago, the answer has been, but the number of included spare tyres is steadily decreasing.

More than ever, it is weight an issue in the automotive, and since western people only but heavier must be the weight savings elsewhere. In lightweight construction – recently won the CFRP-aluminium-steel carriage of the new BMW 7 Series here is still a prestigious Car Body Award, just before the new Audi Q7 – but also in other tricks, if CFRP is too expensive to apply.

So we saw that Mercedes will default to a ridiculously small tank under his C-Class, but also disappears the spare wheel is becoming more common. According to American research is 36% of the cars sold there with no more than 4 wheels delivered (the G63 6×6 with the exception), a percentage that not much will be different.

A and another will have to deal with run-flat tires, eliminating the need of a home comming is lost, and perhaps also with the trend that people nowadays are less inclined or capable to jack and socket, along the side of the road in the rain to standing stallions with the risk of a nail to break, but prefer to call someone who she does.

Is there in your car a spare wheel, or, you know, that would be? Honestly say. A disadvantage: where do you housenootjes now in the border smuggling?

Photo credit: Car Stuck Girls. Yes, that exists.