lol i got love for the pathfinders. I used to drive one!

I'm thinking about finding a cargo rack for my yakima to mount it on the roof

 

me too....

never got stuck in anything. swap...deep snow...rock climbs...always get me there and back safely.

but when mine started to show the typical rust/rot spots under the rear seat, i had to get a diff car before it was a flintstones car...

 

A mini SUV. It will take alot of fabrication lol, let alone it won't be a east one. But I'll definaltey would be interested if some does it. I can image in it now

 

Xxx

 

you can always make it into a continental package style rear hatch give it that VIP look

 

The only draw back of mounting the tire on our hatch is, location of our door handle. By mounting it on the back, it will be hard to reach the door handle as it may paretialy block it. Also were can we find this "high pressured" gas shocks? Besides, who would mount their ugly dougnut spare on the back. I'm assuming mounting a full size tire BTW.

I still like the "Pathfinder style" mounting. The pnly problem is structure wise on our "D" Pillar. Have you press on our back panel? This thing bends easily? There must be some modification to the frame to hold the swing arm, not to mention the weight and stress it will have when swinging it open.

 

forget a full size spare. You got to be SWANK.

Get a SS and fiberglass continental kit and paint it to match your body



scraight pimpin'

(I guess you'd have to have it swing DOWN off the bumper. or get some WAY bigger lift assist shocks)

 

here was my idea same as the others but i was gonna get the part off a 1987 toyota truck .... i was gonna use that square thing in the back of our bumper ( were the tow hook goes)as the access to the winch...just make sure that when ya get the parts to also get the stuff that comes with it to be able to use it.it would suck to have to hunt down all those bars....

 

How about this?

 

^ looks good. But there is no way that it can be attached to the cargo door. The hinges, metal thickness, strenght of the area where the door shocks are mounted etc,- everythyng is against it. I cant think of the car where the spare is mounted on the swing down door.
Good fabricator, a tow hitch shop perhaps should be able to design a frame that goes under the bumper to the body subframe. Thats where the strenght is. The tow hook hole can be utilized too if not as main mounting, but at least as an additional mounting point.
I think it is totally doable and worth the effort.

 

Mounting the tire on the rear, as low as the xB is, is asking for massive damage in rearend bumps that would have just nicked the rear bumper cover before.

Try to do it without covering up your license plate, a tail light, or most of your rear window.

Rally guy needs to mount his on the roof! Just like the Land Rovers on a safari. I'm sure wind effect will be no problem.

What about just plopping the spare in a rear passenger footwell, will it fit?

 

Hmm that's a cool pic... it makes me wonder what it'd be like to have more of a gate that swings open and the glass is a separate piece that just opens upward like it does now. Heavy duty hinge on the right side to hold the added wheel weight but the door itself seems light. It would swing open and hold the tire on the back. The window would be the only tricky part.

Could even do it w/ a shaved look and just have a popper to 'open' the gate. That'd be sweet.

 

I think the rational thing to do is carry a 12V air compressor, some fix-a-flat, and subscribe to some roadside assist plan for when you have a complete blowout. Then you can do without the spare, and be only slightly less inconvenienced than if you had it.

 

Not sure if this is what you meant but roadside assitance will only put on your spare. They do not bring you a new tire. I guess you can have it towed with roadside assitance, but if its the middle of the night, you'll have to wait for the tire store to open.

 

I did not know that.

I seem to remember something about folding temporary spares, the kind you inflate before use. Maybe one of those could fit underneath avoiding the vapor canister.

On second thought that would probably screw up the electronic driving aids.

Still, with fix a flat and a 12V compressor, you would probably be OK in most cases. I have only been in a blowout once, including riding with my folks growing up.

 

Relocated the door handle . Still looks kinda funky.

 

why dont you just mount it inside the hatch itself?

all you would need would be stronger lift shocks

 

I did some measuring on the under-car option. Even with the evaporative canister out of the way there isn't enough room between the axle crossmember and the rear center jack point. You probably have to cut the jack point off!

 

Does anyone make runflat tires in a size that would fit the xB? That would eliminate any need for a spare tire.

 

there could be enough room if you use a compact spare.
i would loose the rear bracket...you can jack from the sides.