Just got a Modern Spare

[HughJazzol]

Free roadside for 5 years/ 60,000 miles.

How, Rick?

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[RickMachE]

How, Rick?

Comes with car...

https://www.ford.com/support/category/service-maintenance/roadside-assistance/

 

[ipca204]

It works great if you have cell signal.

and like waiting on the side of a fast highway at 2am for them to show up.....

 

[ipca204]

I guess I don’t understand the obsession some have with having a spare. I have driven cars since the early 70s. In all those years I have never had occasion to use a spare tire.

well, DUH! If you've never had the need for one, you wouldn't understand! LOL..for those of us with less than ideal driving conditions it is nice for piece of mind..

 

[ZoNiE]

 

[Trueblue3605]

What would be really clever would be to create an insert to replace your frunk that can hold the spare tire.

 

[Teslaeata]

I hope to never use it, but I just purchased a Modern Spare after an incident in my other vehicle. One flat in the middle of nowhere West Virginia took me from $600 seems like a lot for spare tire kit to, “take my money.”

The purchasing experience is excellent and the printable instructions are a nice touch. Thanks everyone who posted about it and shared stowing advice.

Haha!

A spare wheel & tyre isn’t “modern” by definition!

Seems so 1978 to me

Modern is tyre repair kit

Just saying as somebody who just got “old” and retired!

 

[Teslaeata]

In over 40 years of driving, I have needed the spare for every car I have owned, and the nature of the failure was not something fix-a-flat was going to help with. These were on normal road trips on normal roads. Also, I regularly find myself in locations with no cell service.

Weeeeellllllll, only time I ever needed to use a spare or a repair kit since started driving in 1978 and over 2million miles was a cut, not just the archetypical puncture, in a tyre on my mid-life Audi TT years ago when the kit actually worked on a slit.

Just can’t get excited about lugging around a quaint old-fashioned spare wheel & tyre

In the words of professor Baloo of Disney university, “get with the beat, baggy”

 

[YeOldeTraveller]

FWIW, I don't have a spare in the Rally, but I would really like to have the option. But then, I carried a 2.5 ton floor jack in the trunk of the previous two cars.

I started a few years after you, and I might have fewer miles (but it is of the same magnitude).

 

[dan_meh]

Haha!

A spare wheel & tyre isn’t “modern” by definition!

Seems so 1978 to me

Modern is tyre repair kit

Just saying as somebody who just got “old” and retired!

I think the “Modern” part of the Modern Spare company name means “sold separately.”

I agree with those who say they never had a use for one and that they wouldn’t buy one. Let’s appreciate that car companies are becoming more like airlines: unbundling services so that everything is a fee.

Many people don’t want a spare, so Ford deleted it. The partner ecosystem provides it.

Many people don’t use their frunks. So ford deleted it. At least in VW, the partner system provides.

It’s all good.

 

[dan_meh]

For those asking about mounting... for now, I'm just going to shove it under the false floor. But I'm also going to experiment with adding the front, EU tie-downs and doing something like this:



It's a clever solution from Honda, but I think I could replicate it with some hinges for the false floor, the tie downs, and some come along straps. I have a clear path to victory on the front tie downs, thanks to this thread: https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...-cargo-ring-anchor-points-in-the-trunk.26593/ but no clear path for the rearward attachment points.

Ideas welcome on the rear attachment... I think the tie-downs on the tailgate won't work because the attachment wants to be on the rear-side.

 

[ZoNiE]

 

[ZoNiE]

Range Rover Spare. Fits, already had to use it.

 

[dan_meh]

Here’s the vertical mounting dimensions. At this point, I just plopped it into the back to see if the hatch would close. It does! And it disappears behind the headrest of the back seat.

 

[RickMachE]

I think the “Modern” part of the Modern Spare company name means “sold separately.”

I agree with those who say they never had a use for one and that they wouldn’t buy one. Let’s appreciate that car companies are becoming more like airlines: unbundling services so that everything is a fee.

Many people don’t want a spare, so Ford deleted it. The partner ecosystem provides it.

Many people don’t use their frunks. So ford deleted it. At least in VW, the partner system provides.

It’s all good.

Ford, and other companies, have eliminated spare tires for 3 reasons:

1) Cut weight of vehicle for better efficiency.
2) Save money by not including it.
3) Not losing a single sale because it doesn't exist.

It is NOT because "many people don't want a spare". That's not even on the list.

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