Help..spare tire

[flip]

Other brands are not immune from that problem either.  We have had a handfull of people over the last few years that have been driving down the road when their spare just "came off".  Usually cable breaks where the ball is crimped on the end and when this happens you usually get to watch a show in the rear view mirror.  Cable winch in back bottom of truck=bad idea.

[cheyenne]

And we wonder why the car companeys went broke....Cheyenne

[stonebroke]

Yeah but they all worked when they left the showroom.

Stonebroke

[Ron Scott]

Experienced the same problem with my 1993 Tacoma pickup. Luckily I was in a tire shop at the time and asked them to take the spare tire down. It took them quite awhile and effort to pry the cable and tire down with some deformation of the mechanism. A good spraying of Rust Reaper might have worked if we had some at the time.

Toyota has since replaced the cable with a chain mechanism which doesn't seem to freeze up like the cables did. At least I never had the problem over 265,000 miles with my 1996 Tacoma. The chain mechanism always worked the few times the spare was needed.

[easymoney]

back several years ago i had an older datsun station wagon with the spare tire held up on the bottom . one day i was working in the yard near my car and i heard a plop. the spare tire had turned loose and fell down with the car standing still in my driveway.