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Really common up here. Really corrosive environment, due to the chemical they put on our roads in winter.

People forget about their spare, till they need it.

My shop torches off about a dozen spares a year.

Basically, torch off 1 side of the retainer bar (that holds the tire up) at the end of the winch cable.


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I had the same problem with my spare under my 2008 Chevrolet Silverado recently. We were getting ready to move from Michigan to Oregon and I was planning to pull a UHAUL trailer. So I checked the pressure in the spare and it was low. When I added air I could hear it leaking out. So I tried to lower it and couldn't. I followed the instructions in the manual to deal with the secondary latch to no avail. The garage that was going to rent me the trailer said it is a common problem and that the mechanism would need to be cut off and replaced with a better design. So that is what I had them do. Cost about $300. The rim was rusty so the guy at the shop did some grinding and then reinstalled the tire and pumped it up. Seemed to hold air. Fortunately we didn't need it on our trip west.

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owning old toyota trucks, mine have rusted up years ago. I bought a replacement, took the bed off, grinded the old one off and replaced it. Before I replaced it I filled it full of grease and I drop the tire once a year.

for the other truck, the replacement was like $80 bucks or I could buy a dodge version that was similar for $27 and the extension tool for $9, so I will be mounting the dodge version on my Toyota this summer.


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Good info from people that have experienced it.
Cheap way- deflate
Expensive way take to shop.
Battery powered 4” grinder with a cut off wheel are pretty handy tools to have.


My spare on my 03 is in the bed of my truck because the winch works but the pipe to the mechanism is bent.

The winch on my toyhauler died last fall when I put a impact gun to it... don’t do that...
that reminds me, order new winch so it is here when snow stops.

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On my older[93] GMC once I got it down I fabbed a mount to put in the bed and just kept the spare there.
Spare isn't much good if.....


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Originally Posted by New_2_99s
Really common up here. Really corrosive environment, due to the chemical they put on our roads in winter.

People forget about their spare, till they need it.

My shop torches off about a dozen spares a year.

Basically, torch off 1 side of the retainer bar (that holds the tire up) at the end of the winch cable.

I wonder what % of pickup spares are carrying under 20lb of air. My spare is 13 years old and probably has less than 50 miles on it. I have a good 4 year old tire on the pickup that will replace it when I buy tires later this year. They get weak from age even out of the sun.


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Any time I get new tires I have the spare replaced with the best of the set being replaced so my spare is never more than 2x as old as what's on the ground.


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When I get new tires, the old ones go on my horse trailer. They don't get a lot of miles but they sit out in the sun all the time and get cracked.


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We were up riding the SxS on a rough mountain road,ran into a guy with a Tahoe with the same problem. He was a Border Patrol guy who had just transferred from upstate NY. We had cell coverage, he called his wife and had her bring another tire to the trailhead. Ran him down, picked up the tire, ran him back up and put the new one on. I dont know if he ever got it fixed, thinking so, but his spare would not come down either. I guess if I lived in the rust belt, that would be something to flush yearly come spring.


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wondering if the new electric trucks will even have a spare in order to make room for batteries. i cant see it being very practical. i did see a video of the electric f150 out running the Raptor.

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