Anybody have experience with or thoughts about this spare hitch solution?

[dalton108]

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[cardad]

This is basically a bike rack style hitch rack for your tire except you’re loading it with roughly 150 lb. I don’t like these given the possibility of damaging the frame/hitch with a significant load. See Ken Block’s video where he hoons an Etron in the desert and his hitch spare rack rips off.

 

[dalton108]

This is basically a bike rack style hitch rack for your tire except you’re loading it with roughly 150 lb. I don’t like these given the possibility of damaging the frame/hitch with a significant load. See Ken Block’s video where he hoons an Etron in the desert and his hitch spare rack rips off.

Yep kind of my concern it weighs apparently 60 pounds plus the weight of the tire and anything else you put on. But the design suits my needs. I’m not on team “I never carry a spare because plugging it is easier.” I’m also not going to give up bedspace to carry a spare around or haul one up on the freaking roof/cover the bed with racks and then slap a tire on top of that either. This seems to me the only reason reasonable functional way to go other than UPs bumper replacement with this built-in which I simply cannot abide the price not that I can’t afford it I just refuse to spend that much money on what it is.

I’m not gonna be hooning so much as doing some non-trivial offroading. And I’m gonna wanna pass through to carry my trailer as well. Conundrum.

I guess maybe an option is to lose the spare for the trailer and throw the CB spare on that mount instead.

 

[arodriguezfeo]

I really wish there was a way to mount a spare tire on the CT. This swing out hitch would be a great solution but for the weight. I think a spare tire with rim weighs close to 100 so if the hitch weighs 60 it’s a no go.

 

[RM Rilke]

This one avoids the camera obstruction. https://westcottdesigns.net/product/universal-modular-single-tire-carrier/

This is only one that I could locate. The Wilco one doesn’t seem to move it enough. It doesn’t list the weight, but I imagine it weighs a fair amount.

 

[Bobo_LaDouche]

This is basically a bike rack style hitch rack for your tire except you’re loading it with roughly 150 lb. I don’t like these given the possibility of damaging the frame/hitch with a significant load. See Ken Block’s video where he hoons an Etron in the desert and his hitch spare rack rips off.

I am interested in his design to see what the structural flaw of his failure was. It looks like this guy makes a living destroying cars off road. And he makes a lot of videos. Would you happen to remember which one shows the loss of his tire and rack?

What I see in one video is an extra 40 lbs of fuel strapped to the heavy tire, and the entire assembly offset rearwards from the bumper quite a ways. That creates a lot of unnecessary torque.

The trick for the CT is to set the wheel offset away from the center and the rear camera, and to also minimize the torque on the rack by keeping the center of mass of the whole as short as possible. The bumper hitch of the CT looks strong enough when you examine the mounts to the frame. I do drive offroad, but I don't like to spill my coffee when I do so. Were I to drive like this fellow, I would move the spare and fuel to more secure locations - the bed, for instance.

 

[cardad]

This is basically a bike rack style hitch rack for your tire except you’re loading it with roughly 150 lb. I don’t like these given the possibility of damaging the frame/hitch with a significant load. See Ken Block’s video where he hoons an Etron in the desert and his hitch spare rack rips off.

Ken Block died about a year ago and the Etron video was one of the early videos in his new Audi sponsorship and he took it out to the Utah west desert to drive this feature that’s like a small off road hill. The Etron obviously doesn’t have a ton of travel so the likely failure was due to incorrect suspension application since there’s no way they tuned that Etron to do what he was doing but who knows.

Loads on the back of long wheelbase vehicles will tend to see a lot of flex in the hitch area but yeah, you could run the wheel a bit lower and closer to the hitch but then you start to run into departure angle issues. In general I’d argue you probably don’t need a spare if you’re not driving it that hard ? and if you are then you should have a dedicated mount in the bed to strap it down and carry two spares or no spare and make another vehicle carry your spare.

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