Rugged Ridge XHD rear tire carrier latch
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Rugged Ridge XHD rear tire carrier latch
After a night of new years eve wheeling we stopped on the trail for a minute to bring in the new year, one of my buddies comes up to me and says my tire carrier came loose and is just swinging around back there. I went and checked it out and nothing seemed to be wrong with it. So I closed it back and we went own our way. Next day upon further inspection and washing I noticed that there was no tension on the handle and it didnt fit snugly into the carrier latch like before. Anybody else had this problem? Suggestions???
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Same thing happened to me. It didn't swing open, but the latch definately failed. I called customer service from Omix-Ada and they sent me out a new one. I now have a long black rubber bungee chord wrapped around the rear bumper and tire carrier at the latch just be on the safe side.
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yeah I am def gonna call em on monday and see whats up cause the rope that I have tiead around my d-ring and tire carrier is not a good enough solution for me. Further more if its a design flaw then I dont want there latch again either..
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i know rugged ridge put out two versions of the handle.. I guess the first one that was in production was havin the problems you were having. They now have a new handle that is pretty secure. I was fortunate to buy mine after the "handle issue" was fixed
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I am sure I got the first generation handle cause it was a hot new product when I bought mine. Yow wouldnt happen to have a pic of that new gen handle would you??
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https://www.jk-forum.com/forums/jk-bumpers-armor-114/rugged-ridge-xhd-rear-bumper-tire-carrier-maryland-113376/
i would take a pic of mine but its already dark.
i would take a pic of mine but its already dark.
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The first one I had is on top, and the new one they sent me is on the bottom. They look the same. I know that the original version of the RR tire carrier had a padel style door latch type of lever built into the swing arm. It look completely different from the ones shown below.
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