Griff Spare Wheel and Jack

[mikereynolds]

Just wondered where abouts in the boot the spare wheel and jack are supposed to go, and what type of jack and iron should be in there?? Also does it interfere with the roof when it is in the boot? Any pics would be great!

Mike

[Ballistic Banana]

SPare whell normallu sits to the right hand sid eof the boot, you should see two rings which and band clips into to hold it in place..Ones on the floor and one up top right.
Jack is normally a little scissor type one...

Yes it can make putting the roof in more arkward so leave the wheel out and just keep a couple of cans of tyre weld..most do this and alot of sports cars nowadays come without a spare now and just have the tins of tyreweld in.

BB

[Uncle Fester]

The scissor jack had a slightly concave top.

If you just go down the breakers yard you will find that a lot have a flat top.

That way it cups the round chassis tube, doesn’t mark the powder coating on the chassis so easely and the car is less likely to slip off.

It should all come in a bag made of vinyl like the roof bag.

But seeing as you should be taking BB's excellent advice to leave it at home, none of this really matters.

[97octane]

I think that the spare was eventually deleted and only available as an option on later cars. Mine just came with 2 cans of tyreweld.

[davetherave1970]

My jack has never been out of it's bag and lives behind the drivers seat.
Silly really as I've never carried the spare wheel!

[350Matt]

Important point here chaps is where do you put the flat tyre / wheel combo?

It won't fit in the boot. so you either leave it at the side of the road or leave the missus at the side of the road...

Forget the spare tyre and chuck in some tyre weld just as TVR did

Matt

[Ballistic Banana]

davetherave1970 said:

My jack has never been out of it's bag and lives behind the drivers seat.
Silly really as I've never carried the spare wheel!

No I don't think so Dave. I still carry my Jack and it may come in useful if you need to jack it up for other reasons...like 100a fuse blowing...( wouldn't rely on just the jack and would stuff something else under there once jacked up) or even just to get the weight of wheel while you use the tyreweld and inflater.

BB

[davetherave1970]

Ballistic Banana said:

davetherave1970 said:

My jack has never been out of it's bag and lives behind the drivers seat.
Silly really as I've never carried the spare wheel!

No I don't think so Dave. I still carry my Jack and it may come in useful if you need to jack it up for other reasons...like 100a fuse blowing...( wouldn't rely on just the jack and would stuff something else under there once jacked up) or even just to get the weight of wheel while you use the tyreweld and inflater.

BB

That makes sense! I knew I had it in there for a reason

[steve-V8s]

The suggestion that after changing a wheel the flat will not fit in the boot is a myth. Provided there is not a lot of other stuff in there you can actually get two fully inflated wheels in. When I started hill climbing one wheel went in a plastic bag on the rear shelf, one in a plastic bag on the passenger seat and two went in the boot with all the other stuff packed around them. Bit of a technique to it as you have to put one in, roll it to the side get it at just the right angle and slide the other in.

[dhf]

can't help you on the Griff,but if you had a Chimaera the wheel would be here and the jack,tyre weld etc would be in the shiney aluminium box on the hulk head !! did someone say the jack came in a vinyl bag on the Griff ?....

Edited by dhf on Saturday 11th October 14:16

[dhf]

Chimaera out fishing and no Griffith's biting......

[AntonyJ]

dhf said:

Chimaera out fishing and no Griffith's biting......