a regular tire dont fit well in there.....235 anyway.
a good bumper and swing is ideal imo....but thats an opinion....
Exactly, the tires that were sent out in that location were temporary spares, not exactly a great idea on a 4WD vehicle.
Anyhow, the bumper with a swing mount is ok, but I've got to the point where I hate that stupid mount on the back, you have to move it everytime you need to get in the back cargo area. If it was mounted on the roof it would be out of the way. How often do you access the back of an SUV? How often do you use the spare tire? Makes more sense for that tire to be completely out of the way to me. I've seen the offroad bumpers with the spare tire rack and fuel can rack on them and they look nice, but then you have that stuff in the way all the time.
It really is a toss-up though between putting a rack on the roof, and putting the tire up there, or building a rear bumper. At the rate my B2 is going right now probably neither, it may end up in the recycle bin before anything else. :sad: I bought it with hopes of having time to work on it, but that's not happening, and when I will have time to work on it, its too damn cold outside.
The rear stock bumper is kind of pointless with that spare tire on the back, an aftermarket (home built) rear bumper would make tons more sense, if there was a way to get the spare tire out of the way so the bumper could do its job rather than cars hitting the tire and shoving the tire/mount through the rear hatch.
Anyone have pics of one of those custom bumpers? How about mounting the spare tire on the front like some of the older trucks had :icon_confused: