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Originally Posted by Tatsfield
Yes, I found that out before I felt forced to by a skinny spare and that's why I said I'd fix the full size in the cargo area and put up with the load space reduction.
In the last 15 years before I bought the CX70, I had 3 Peugeot V6 406 coupes and they all had 5 identical alloy wheels. When I wanted to change the design of wheel on a later car for the wheels from the earlier one, I asked a specialist breaker to collect 5 unused spares from the wheel wells of cars he was scrapping. So I can see that from a manufacturers point of view paying to provide a fifth alloy seems an unnecessary expense but to be able to change a wheel on the way to a long distance holiday and not have to worry about finding a tyre shop ASAP to change the wheels back seems to me to be the civilised way to go.  |
In the past 20 year I've had 5 VW Passats as company cars from new and they all had "in-service" spare wheels (i.e. not space savers) but the Audi A4 I had was a space saver.
Seems to vary between manufacturers.