Carrying Two Spare Trailer Tires

[TucsonJim]

Did someone say IPA AND Alaska in the same post......now we are talking ! Count Carol and me in !

Dan

Dan, I was just revisiting this thread and has missed this post before. We're heading north to Alaska this next May, and returning in time to attend the national rally. We had planned on doing it last summer, but some pandemic thingy messed up our plans. Hopefully, we'll be able to journey into Canada in May.

I'm in the process of ordering the new winch for this project and had to re-read through Rob and Howard's posts. Does anyone know where I can purchase two 15" six lug Jaguar wheels besides e-Trailer? I've had horrible luck using those guys in the past.

Jim

[Cate&Rob]

Does anyone know where I can purchase two 15" six lug Jaguar wheels besides e-Trailer? I've had horrible luck using those guys in the past.

Jim

Hi Jim,

What about the original source . . . LionsHead. https://lionsheadtireandwheel.com/Jaguar-Aluminum-Wheel

Rob

[Yoda]

Dan, I was just revisiting this thread and has missed this post before. We're heading north to Alaska this next May, and returning in time to attend the national rally. We had planned on doing it last summer, but some pandemic thingy messed up our plans. Hopefully, we'll be able to journey into Canada in May.

I'm in the process of ordering the new winch for this project and had to re-read through Rob and Howard's posts. Does anyone know where I can purchase two 15" six lug Jaguar wheels besides e-Trailer? I've had horrible luck using those guys in the past.

Jim

Jim - I will have 4 available this spring, plus the spare, Waiting on a GY Endurance sale

[PineconeNW]

Having had to change out a trailer tire twice for non-catastrophic pressure loss identified by my TPMS (bad valve stem and nail puncture) I was then left with travelling without a usable spare. Add to this that a catastrophic tire loss means that the other tire on the same side is severely overloaded for some length of time . . . travelling with two spares is a good idea. But where to put the second spare? In the truck? On the back bumper of the trailer? Hmmm?

It seemed to me that the best place for the second spare tire would be under the trailer beside the first spare tire. Originally, I planned to go behind the original spare, but this got into interference with one of the slide drive mechanisms, so I ended up moving the first spare over and placing the new one beside it. This does mean that one spare is accessed from the street side rather than the curb side, but this is workable. This does keep both spares in the low-bounce, reasonably well protected, area just behind the axles.

More details in the attached.

Rob

Thank you for this excellent post. We now have two spares. Still need to make the socket lock trick.
Thanks,