Pulling out the spare tire: stupid, stupid... STUPID!

"Saintor" wrote

Here's what you do: trade in your current car for one of the newer ones that come with run-flats and have no spare to scratch taking it out of the well. Or, start lifting weights.

Floyd

I would say that bimmers are not, "conventional" cars, I have never had a problem. but ususally you can avoid this type of problem by familiarizing yourself with how these things work before you actually need to use them. Im sure there is a good reason for the design, maybe the fact that with "spirited" BMW driving, the conventional retainer didnt hold up...sounds like a problem of user error to me....

User error; yes to an extent. But the design is awfully prone to this kind of incident.

I never had that trouble.

The wingnut is loosened, the plate is lifted out, and the tire then comes out. If the tire is placed with the shiny side up, then if it is inadvertantly dropped, the scratch happens to the inside where nobody will ever see it. The advantage of this system is that if it is dark out, the long screw is secured to the floor and one does not have to search for it at the end of a 10 inch shaft in a hole in the dark.

ah - so you've moved to the bmw group to do your incessant whining thing?

that's excellent! ahahahahahahahaha!

Sorry, but it is just not true. My mag proves it.

You've not read your handbook. BMW don't recommend tyre rotation.

Reason no1 for not rotating your tyres! ;-)

Seriously, what is your mag?

Spare wheel removal in my car is ridiculously easy, and can't result in the wheel being dropped, unless you're a bit cack-handed!

Understandablew, I've run into issues of the same sort... I usually cuss for a while, sometimes bleed a little, and then go back, and discover that there was some sort of logic to how it was done... thats usually followed by a general cursing of German engineers...

I'd love to know what's difficult about lifting the spare in a vertical plane before moving it to one side?

Anyone with a modicum of mechanical knowledge would do just that.

If no modicum, leave it to a pro. Because you'll probably f**k up the torque settings of the wheel bolts too. ;-)

It's the difference between the engineer's approach to something mechanical and an if-it-won't-fit-then-force-it view of things. You're unlikely to educate someone who already left an academic environment about how to do something like this, much less actually understand it. They simply won't be able to see why they should have to think that way.

They should be able to just push a button, and it happens.

Sorry, your crying is falling on deaf ears. Not deaf so much as uncaring. If you move the floor out of the way, it is an easy task to lift the tire out on the first try.

PS I believe there is no recommendation to rotate the tires anyway. I finally threw away a brand new tire that was 12 years old.

Nothing that bandaids and a beer couldn't fix, and reading your owners manual first knowing that you don't rotate the spare into the mix.....

Make no mistake; on Bimmerfest, many reported having made the same mishandling. This bad design (I have seen better) is like a trap. I am sure that this thread will remind at some point people to be more aware of that risk when handling the spare tire.

Drugs? Get lost idiot.

That's YOU'RE, not your. Sorry, I hate to do s*it like that.

Perhaps if you stuck with aluminium alloys they might not scratch as easily... ;)

Sounds like you're ready to trade the piece of s*it in for a Hyundai.

No, actually it is your. "crying" in this case is a gerund, i.e. a verb used as a noun. Hence your is correct. Think of it this way. You wouldn't say "you are dog". You would say "your dog".

Are we having fun yet? :-)