G4 Owners Club

Spare wheel

https://forum.g4ownersclub.com/Topic17403.aspx

By Modwen - 24 Nov 2010

Whats the best way to strap the spare wheel to the roof rack? What type of straps do other members use?

I wandered into the local Halfords today, the the only straps they had were pretty pathetic and crap!

Andrew

By flinty - 24 Nov 2010

I have just purchased a second hand Lockable Spare Wheel Mount. :D



Looks like this



By Sweaty - 25 Nov 2010

Two halfords cheapy plastic coated bicycle cables with eyelets each end and a plastic coated large motorcycle padlock ( Use keys not combination lock , and put the keys on both sets of car keys, I had to cut the last one off -forgot combination and the lock was seizing up ). You can feed the cable through and around the lashing holes in the roof board and back up through the centre hole of the wheel so you have 4 eyelets together . Apply padlock which must be larger than the diameter of the wheel centre. Voila it aint going anywhere . Total cost about £15. Done 10000 miles on /off road round Europe Romania /Ukraine and 100 mph on autobahns. Doesn't move or bump provide you slightly tension the cables by choosing to wrap the cables around to get them just long enough to pop through wheel centre. It's dark now but can send photo if this doesn't make sense.
By Modwen - 26 Nov 2010

Cheers

I'll give that one a go as it sounds the best and most cost effective solution.

Andrew