View Poll Results: What best describes your spare tire situation.
No spare, and needed one.
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No spare, and never needed one.
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07-20-2014, 08:41 AM
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JK Junkie
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07-20-2014, 09:08 AM
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JK Enthusiast
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I guess if you don't take your spare with you and you slash a tire out on the trail, one of your buddies will take you back to camp to get it instead of a possible quick trail tire change and keep having fun. Hope the buddy has room in his Jeep to carry your spare back to your Jeep for you.
07-20-2014, 09:15 AM
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JK Junkie
I guess if you don't take your spare with you and you slash a tire out on the trail, one of your buddies will take you back to camp to get it instead of a possible quick trail tire change and keep having fun. Hope the buddy has room in his Jeep to carry your spare back to your Jeep for you.
07-20-2014, 09:24 AM
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Bumper was ACE, replaced it with crawler conceptz skinny series (BFH copy). My spare is mounted on an ORFab no cans carrier. The bumper should never make contact with anything now, but the spare is looking pretty vulnerable when coming off a ledge or going into a dug out climb.
07-20-2014, 09:40 AM
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No offense here, but if with a skid you are hitting ur carrier enough for u to consider not running a spare, it's probably time to reconsider your wheeling style. Maybe different lines would help?
07-20-2014, 10:02 AM
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JK Junkie
I carry a plug kit, a compressor, plus a spare tire. In the old days, it was all that plus a half-gallon of green slime in each tire too. Haven't had to resort to a spare tire in 20+ years.
07-20-2014, 11:05 AM
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JK Jedi
I can't vote as no category for me. I have a spare and have not used it. I have been wheeling with guys that have needed their spare mostly due to knocked out valve stems in the rocks.
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07-20-2014, 11:37 AM
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I've been debating ditching my spare tire before I catch it on a rock and peel my tire carrier off the back of my jeep. So here's my question... How many of you have actually needed a spare tire while wheeling? If so what wheel and tire combination were you running, and what was the situation that you were in? i.e broke a bead, cut a side wall etc.
Was wheeling with my girls, snagged valve stem in the rocks, mangled it such that I could not bend or fix without completely replacing it.
Stock rim, stock Rubi tire. The spare got us home. Messing with a tire when the family is with me turns them off. The easier the time is, the more they like off-roading. Being stranded would not be a fun experience. Hiking out with three little ones would not be fun.
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07-20-2014, 11:38 AM
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Indeed, just because someone finds carrying a spare to be inconvenient on the trail, doesn't mean that they will be entitled to the use of mine, quite the contrary.