Spare Tire Location

[HAL GALLUS]

You can get a spare tire from Rivian if you have $1200-$1500 burning a hole in your pocket. They weigh 80-83 lbs. each (and that doesn't include the jack and lug wrench). The Rivian truck bed is only 17" deep, in order to accomodate the spare underneath. If you can even call that a "truck" bed at only 17" deep!

I'll stick with plugs. It might be because I've been a fan of Sport-touring around remote areas of the American West on my Ducati for a couple of decades and I NEVER bring a spare wheel and tire assembly with me. I always bring a plug kit, spare valve cores, and an ultra-miniature 12V tire pump. It's been a real life-saver.

I guess I can see why people who only use spare wheel/tire assemblies think they are essential, because that's how they have always done it. Sometimes there is a lot of reluctance to adopt new, easier, better ways of doing things. I get it. Many don't even have a clue how to do a quick emergency tire repair plug. I would be skeptical too, if I didn't already know how to do it.

some people would not be able to change a tire if there lives deepened on it.

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[Red61224]

I have ben driving for 48 years(trucks & vans). I have only needed a spare once.

I quit counting after 24.

Construction sites are the worst. Once had 3 tires on the same car that had reached their MAX number of allowed patches.

Oh, and hurricanes, don't get me started on that nightmare for tires, roofing shingles and NAILS blown everywhere.

 

[wtibbit]

I have ben driving for 48 years(trucks & vans). I have only needed a spare once.

When I first read this post I thought, "That's just not believable."

Then, I gave more consideration to the parenthetical term, "trucks & vans". Maybe that term means tractor-trailers or other freight haulers that typically have dual-wheels that can continue operating with one flat tire on an axle and also have tires that are much more able to withstand debris and objects that can cause immediate flats or blowouts in passenger car tires. Is that the case, GALLUS?

As for me, I've been driving motorcycles, cars and light trucks for 60 years and I've experienced at least a couple dozen or more situations where I needed and used a spare tire, including two in the last 18 months. And I don't think that is unusual.

 

[Red61224]

some people would not be able to change a tire if there lives deepened on it.

Guess that's why some people need taxi's / uber and buses to survive. Sad

 

[Red61224]

When I first read this post I thought, "That's just not believable."

Then, I gave more consideration to the parenthetical term, "trucks & vans". Maybe that term means tractor-trailers or other freight haulers that typically have dual-wheels that can continue operating with one flat tire on an axle and also have tires that are much more able to withstand debris and objects that can cause immediate flats or blowouts in passenger car tires. Is that the case, GALLUS?

As for me, I've been driving motorcycles, cars and light trucks for 60 years and I've experienced at least a couple dozen or more situations where I needed and used a spare tire, including two in the last 18 months. And I don't think that is unusual.

It's called LIFE. We adapt. Though on some occasions I suspect on slow days the tire shops send out the new kid with a bucket of roofing nails.

 

[Red61224]

some people would not be able to change a tire if there lives deepened on it.

Years ago and a newlywed I was offshore working in the Gulf and my wife had a flat on her car and she let it set for a week and drove my car. When I hit the beach and found out we walked out to the parking lot and had Tire Changing School 101 which started at the glove box - owner's manual. I showed her / watched her change a tire safely. I once taught my ADULT brother in law (Master's Degree - History - Teacher) how to change a tire and flush a radiator. Damn near useless.

 

[cvalue13]

I am not happy with myself for posting this but its is important. Please forgive me.


Matthew Donegan-Ryan
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- unlike other Teslas, the Cybertruck will have a spare wheel (standard on legacy full size trucks). - there are multiple tow and trailer modes. - the bed has 3 total outlets (240v and 120v).

MDR plays games if telephone with people, and either isn’t a good listener, or isn’t talking to good talkers

there will be an optional spare

it’s “storage” location will be laying** in the bed of the truck (unless/until someone offers a swing-way bumper carrier


** why laying, and not:


… all depends on whether you want to operate the tonneau

 

[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

Source?

'SECRET'
Maxwell Smart: 'l don't think we should talk right here on the open Chief. l think we should use the cone of silence'
Chief: 'Oh Max, every time we use the cone of silence something terrible happens'

 

[HaulingAss]

Years ago and a newlywed I was offshore working in the Gulf and my wife had a flat on her car and she let it set for a week and drove my car. When I hit the beach and found out we walked out to the parking lot and had Tire Changing School 101 which started at the glove box - owner's manual. I showed her / watched her change a tire safely. I once taught my ADULT brother in law (Master's Degree - History - Teacher) how to change a tire and flush a radiator. Damn near useless.

Could either of them mount a wheel weighing over 80 lbs onto the wheel lugs on the side of the road? And put the one that was flat back where it goes?

 

[dw321]

Wow. I’ve been driving for 55 years and have had dozens of flat tires. Everything from screws on paved streets to sliced sidewalks on rocky trails. Lucky you!

 

[PilotPete]

'SECRET'
Maxwell Smart: 'l don't think we should talk right here on the open Chief. l think we should use the cone of silence'
Chief: 'Oh Max, every time we use the cone of silence something terrible happens'

 

[PilotPete]

Wow. I’ve been driving for 55 years and have had dozens of flat tires. Everything from screws on paved streets to sliced sidewalks on rocky trails. Lucky you!

I've been driving over 40 years, and I've picked up quite a few nails and screws. But none of them caused a flat that had to be changed roadside. They have all been slow leaks that I have been able to put some air in, drive to a tire shop, get fixed or replaced, and move on. Aside from accidents, I think I've had to change a tire once. Now, that being said, I've had two or three roadside flats, but with AAA or the OEM service, I just make a call, wait 15-20 mins, and as they say "Whoomp, there it is!" And the OEM trucks had full size mounted tires to loan you. I've stopped more than half a dozen times to help someone change a tire, or change it for them.

I won't order an optional spare.

 

[Coolbreeze704]

So, Cybertruck is a truck that will be taken off-highway and will get flat tires. Where do you put the spare or how will you deal with that flat tire?

I'm pretty sure this is why Tesla is not letting anyone take pictures of the back seat or talk about what they have seen back there.

This is the allusive spare tire location. Mystery solved!!

 

[CyberGus]

I get a flat about every 10 years.

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