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Many vehicles these days have no spare tyre at all and many have space saver wheels. The problem with the latter, if it's all you've got on a Hunter, is where you locate the punctured Road wheel once the "spafe" has been fitted. The Hunters were all sent out with spacesavers and the boot lid spare wheel mounting bracket won't accept a full size road wheel as the studs are too short.
I'm planning to convert my car to carry a full size road wheel on the boot...so my questions are these: with a 15" wheel and a 195/65 tyre, do I need to use 4 bolts/studs (the space saver wheel mount has only two) and how long and what size do the bolts need to be? (I would prefer to hold the wheel with standard Ford wheel nuts from my somewhat extensive collection....).
Obviously I can research all this for myself, but I can't be the only Marlineer to have encountered this problem and I'm wondering if there's any hidden pitfall I haven't considered.
I'm planning to convert my car to carry a full size road wheel on the boot...so my questions are these: with a 15" wheel and a 195/65 tyre, do I need to use 4 bolts/studs (the space saver wheel mount has only two) and how long and what size do the bolts need to be? (I would prefer to hold the wheel with standard Ford wheel nuts from my somewhat extensive collection....).
Obviously I can research all this for myself, but I can't be the only Marlineer to have encountered this problem and I'm wondering if there's any hidden pitfall I haven't considered.