skinny spare wheel for a fiat ducato 2013

[nuttallsmith]

Hello, I need to source a skinny wheel/tyre for my Rapido 9048 to fit in the underfloor lockers. I have an inflator kit which won't be much good against side wall damage in northern Spain or even a nailgun attack. Does anyone have any ideas on the subject?

[Billggski]

You'll be struggling for a space saver for a motorhome, the standard tyres are marginal for load.

They are specifically made for models of car, and type approved as such.

There is a kit to store them underneath.

[nuttallsmith]

many thanks for your reply, I shall have to find a supplier of the underneath kit. Any ideas??

[Billggski]

I got mine from an eBay supplier, they come up from time to time.

Make sure that it's the revised kit, with a long bar, the early one had problems, and check that there isn't a water tank that has been fixed behind the rear axle where it goes.

[Derek Uzzell]

nuttallsmith - 2014-04-26 5:53 PM

 

many thanks for your reply, I shall have to find a supplier of the underneath kit. Any ideas??

 

There's no chance whatsoever of you obtaining a 'skinny' spare-wheel for your motorhome - neither a suitable wheel nor a narrow tyre with an appropriate load-carrying capacity are manufactured.

 

The Rapido 9048DF is a double-floor design (hence the "DF" suffix) constructed on an Al-Ko chassis.

 

Al-Ko offers two spare-wheel carrier versions

 

http://shop.al-ko.co.uk/sections/spare-wheel-carriers.html

 

but you'd need to confirm that (as Al-Ko emphasises) your motorhome's chassis can theoretically accept a carrier, and that the Rapido conversion does not exploit the under-chassis space where a spare-wheel carrier might be fitted. With the kitchen and bathroom at the rear of a 9048DF, there's a fair chance (as Billggski warns) that Rapido will have located the waste-water tank where a carrier could otherwise go. As a 9048DF has no 'garage', you may find that it's impracticable to carry a spare-wheel.

 

I suggest you ask Wokingham Motorhomes about this, as it's probably something owners of recent coachbuilt Rapidos (none of which have a factory option of a spare-wheel) would like to do.