Spare wheel storage space

[sparkythecat]

Picked up my new car, a 2006 Avant 3.0tdi quattro, a couple of days ago and am still getting to know it. It has a lovely full sized spare wheel in the boot. The inside of the rim could provide a decent bit of storage space, but what's really needed is a plastic dish shaped liner to fit inside the wheel to prevent things getting dirty.

I seem to remember that the BMW E36 3 Series Tourer I had a few years ago had one, but I could be mistaken. Can anyone tell me what other vehicles have a plastic bowl liner in the spare wheel that I could perhaps use or adapt?

[aka_kerrly]

i lined the inside of the spare wheel with bubble wrap and then chucked a load of bits and pieces on top of it. The wrap stops things vibrating as well which is handy.

dave

[sparkythecat]

Bump.

Yes I know it's a boring topic, but I'd appreciate any suggestions

[300bhp/ton]

sparkythecat said:

Bump.

Yes I know it's a boring topic, but I'd appreciate any suggestions

You bought an estate car, but it's still not big enough that you need to use the inside of the spare wheel for additional storage!!

[rolty]

Measure the ID then buy a washing up bowl of a suitable size?

[B'stard Child]

What exactly are you going to store in it? - if it's out of sight then you probably don't need it it at all so will to carry extra weight around and have your mpg suffer accordingly......

PS if I did want to do this I'd visit a garden centre with a tape measure and cut down a suitable plastic plant pot to fit inside the spare wheel - the rattles wuld drive me nuts I suspect so then I'd be wrapping in bubblewrap and then I'd wonder what on earth I was doing!!

Edited by B'stard Child on Friday 17th September 15:35

[4mo]

Alternatively clean the spare wheel.

[HellDiver]

Hyundai i30 has it's tools inside the full size alloy spare.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

just remove the spare completely, then carry a couple of tins of tyreweld.

Save the MPG's too :thumpup:

[sparkythecat]

B'stard Child said:

What exactly are you going to store in it? - if it's out of sight then you probably don't need it it at all so will to carry extra weight around and have your mpg suffer accordingly......

Drugs and body parts Jump leads, a decent wheelbrace, work gloves, hi-vis jacket, a litre of engine oil, and a small emergency toolkit.

Unless anyone has a better suggestion, I'll be looking in the garden centre.

[Rob_F]

sparkythecat said:

B'stard Child said:

What exactly are you going to store in it? - if it's out of sight then you probably don't need it it at all so will to carry extra weight around and have your mpg suffer accordingly......

Drugs and body parts Jump leads, a decent wheelbrace, work gloves, hi-vis jacket, a litre of engine oil, and a small emergency toolkit.

Unless anyone has a better suggestion, I'll be looking in the garden centre.

Not being funny, but you are worried about that stuff getting dirty?

[freecar]

How about make your own??

Line the inside of the wheel with masking tape, overlapping by half the width of the tape each time, make sure it is really covered and in a nice "bowl" shape. Then lay tin foil over the top creating a little metal bowl in the shape you desire. Now spray silicon polish all over it, this is your release agent.

Now you can lay fibreglass matting over the foil and coat with resin. The foil will protect the wheel from the heat of the resin going off. This will create a bowl perfectly moulded to your wheel, remove when gone off, clean up the foil and tape (the polish will stop the foil sticking) and you're all done!

Or go to the garden centre!!

[redtwin]

4mo said:

Alternatively clean the spare wheel.

This is so brilliantly simple it got ignored.