I'm looking for a way to have a tire on my Disco 2 rear carrier, but would like to avoid all the weight on the cargo door. I don't ever plan on changing my tire, so it doesn't matter if it's real or smaller, etc. Any ideas?

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God I hope you're being funny

 

I live downtown Chicago. Having an off-road vehicle is funny enough.

 

The cargo door can hold much weight even larger tires. Once the door is closed, the weight is distributed evenly to carry the weight. My discos never had problem with the rear door. But as far as i know, all disco 2 have a tire carrier in the back. Dont you have one?

 

Mine had a damaged screw when I bought it. So, I got a new used carrier. Never came with a tire. In my area, tires gets stolen.

 

That's why I have a padlock on mine. One of the studs on my spare mount was sheared off so I drilled through the middle of it and used JB Weld to fix a long bolt in its place. I drilled through a spare Rover lug nut so that it slips onto the new bolt, then put a nut on the new bolt's thread after that. (This causes the Rover lug to tighten against the wheel.) Lastly I drilled a vertical hole through the new long bolt and put a padlock through it.

 

I wonder if someone used that strategy with my original carrier.

 

I think it's more likely that someone used the wrong lug nut and twisted the stud off. The nuts for the carrier have a bump on the face; regular wheel nuts don't, and the thread inside them is not as deep so they will go on part-way and then stop. If you don't know that's what is going on, you can easily keep trying to tighten it until the stud breaks.

 

I have an 04 that I wanted to strip all bs off to save weight. I took off the spare and the mount and used stainless bolts to fill the holes. I like it. Any road trips I will just toss a spare in back. As far as weight, I used to sit on the tire when mounted on the door and I am not small

 

Your going to have to use your imagination. We don't normally do fake spares here.


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