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Sep 17th, 2018, 22:14 | #1 |
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Does the new V60 have a spare wheel?
I rather fancy this car, but I'm a bit old-fashioned, in that I like to have a spare wheel. It seems to me that the new V60 not only doesn't have one, but also no place for one. Does this mean that it has run-flat tyres, a can of goop or do Volvos simply never get punctures?
P.S. Just answered my own question - sort of. The Volvo Switzerland site doesn't mention a spare wheel - but I had a peek at the Volvo UK site, and it does! So I presume that the Swiss site has somehow not included it - or perhaps it's model-dependent, the way that some engines are only available with certain models. Can't think why though. P.P.S. Spare wheel appears on the Swiss site - IF you don't select the Twin Engine variant. Could this be where the batteries go? Last edited by anton differing; Sep 17th, 2018 at 22:25. |
Sep 18th, 2018, 13:52 | #2 |
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Sep 18th, 2018, 14:47 | #3 |
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I’ve just looked in my new V60 and no spare wheel. You might be able to wedge a space saver in the storage bin under the boot floor though.
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Sep 18th, 2018, 16:57 | #4 |
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Gents, thank you for the answers! I am so neurotic that, in addition to the space-saver spare, I carry a full-size spare on long trips in my V40. I have this nightmare of getting a puncture in the middle of France en route to the ferry to Ireland, and I don't want to be restricted to 80kmh. A space-saver would be perfect for problems within Swizzieland.
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Sep 18th, 2018, 17:10 | #5 |
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P.S. I think I may have done something daft - I looked today at the twin engine V60 and the spare wheel was there! So clearly the space is not occupied by batteries.
On the other hand, sometimes the Swiss website does strange things - I sometimes find that the photos of the options are qualified by a description that belongs to an entirely different option. It's as if a photo (or two?) has disappeared, and all the captions have jumped one or two places to totally unrelated photos. I wonder whether this is a universal problem. |
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I may have posted this before, but my last car was a Lexus hybrid, with the batteries under the boot floor, so no spare. But they did thoughtfully provide a neatly folded heavy duty plastic bag, labelled "place your punctured road wheel in this bag so as not to dirty the boot". Presumably then drive on 3 wheels, Citroen DS style?
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V60 Twin Engine Variant - spare wheel
Hi, just to confirm, the V60 twin engine variant does have a spare wheel? I am going to buy one and thought it worth double checking...
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