stanaka1
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Can you take a picture? I'd like to see how low it hangs compared to the donut spare
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Full sized spare?
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kevin.west11
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Definitely lower than the donut but haven’t had any clearance issues thus far with driveway curbs.
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I found my SX Prestige wheel pretty much brand new for 150 on facebook marketplace. Might take some patience but I've seen a few out there. I was just waiting for one to be close to my area.
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It's one of those things you hope to never have to use, but you just know it's going to happen on a Sunday on a long road trip. With a full size, spare, you just swap and keep on trucking until it's convenient to find a tire place to replace.
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You know places are open on Sundays.
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Your popular places like Discount and NTB are closed on Sundays with other stores having shortened hours. Again, you hope you never have to use it by why not be well prepared for a fraction of the cost?
I have a 2024 Telluride X-pro with 18" wheels and want to have a full-size spare for travel into remote regions with no local tire store.
(destroyed side walls of two tires in potholes on Mexico highways 1 and 5 last year and drove way too far on temporary spare and a mismatch tire that was the only one I could get shipped to me)
Tried at my local Discount Tire to buy a wheel and tire as a full-size spare after checking that the OEM wheel and tire does fit in the underfloor spot (even if it does hang a couple of inches lower than the temporary spare) but they could not come up with any available wheel that would fit other than OEM at about $900.
Seems to me it shouldn't be too hard to find a steel wheel to fit and put an adequate load capacity tire of close to the same diameter for use as the spare.
What do others do?
Can you point me to a suitable substitute wheel 5x114.3 18"?
Thank you.
(destroyed side walls of two tires in potholes on Mexico highways 1 and 5 last year and drove way too far on temporary spare and a mismatch tire that was the only one I could get shipped to me)
Tried at my local Discount Tire to buy a wheel and tire as a full-size spare after checking that the OEM wheel and tire does fit in the underfloor spot (even if it does hang a couple of inches lower than the temporary spare) but they could not come up with any available wheel that would fit other than OEM at about $900.
Seems to me it shouldn't be too hard to find a steel wheel to fit and put an adequate load capacity tire of close to the same diameter for use as the spare.
What do others do?
Can you point me to a suitable substitute wheel 5x114.3 18"?
Thank you.
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