Greetings,
It has been a while since I have posted. I finally took the plunge and removed the spare tire cover from my spare to see what was under it. I knew that there was a lot of leaves and stuff in there from the Fall because stuff kept falling out. I wanted to get that junk out before it started to rot.
When I picked up the car last Summer, the delivery lady at the dealership warned me never to take off the cover unless I really needed to because I would never be able to get it back on. Well, now I needed to take it off to clean it out, even though it was rumored to be difficult to put back on.
In the end, it was an effort to do it, but far from impossible.
The word descriptions on this forum for how to do this job were not helping me much, so just for grins (and perhaps to enlighten someone who has not done this yet) I decided to post some photos of what I found and how I got the tire cover back on. I hope this is not considered redundant information. The following procedure worked for me. Others may do it a different way.
To get the cover off, I opened the door to gain access to the handhold at the bottom of the door. There is an opening where you can reach the elastic, but the opening is covered by the rear bumper when the door is closed.
So I opened the door and peeled the elastic off of the bottom of the tire, and then pulled the elastic off of the top of the tire, and the cover just came off. That was pretty easy. Here is what I found inside of the cover:
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It's the directions for how to put the cover back on, virtually destroyed by the the weather. LOL! I wish I had taken off the cover earlier. I wish the delivery lady had told me that the directions were inside! Dang! Anyway, the directions are still readable, so I put them into the car to dry out. Then I took the wheel off and found this:
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Dirt and crud! And that is only half of it because a bunch of it fell out when I took the wheel off.
I also found this little trick....
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the elastic does not go all the way around the tire. The sides are not stretchy. The little non-stretchy areas of the cover are what go into the narrow slots along the sides of the tire.
So I cleaned it all up, took a pressure reading of the spare, remounted the spare onto the bracket, and then tried to put the cover back on. Here is how I did it.
First, I jammed a blanket into the door to keep the door open while I pushed on the cover to get it back on. The door has to be open in order to gain access to the opening at the bottom.
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Then I took the cover and stretched the top elastic over the top of the tire as it says to do in the directions. You can kind of see in this photo that the bottom elastic is not over the bottom of the tire yet.
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In case you cannot see it in that photo, here is a closeup:
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The sides and bottom of the elastic were all rolled up so I worked my fingers down both sides from the top until I had unrolled the elastic all the way to the bottom. Then I stretched the bottom elastic over bottom of the tire as best I could. The sides and bottom were still not completely tucked in since it is impossible to get your fingers into those skinny slots on the side of the tire.
But here is the other trick. You rotate the tire cover 90 degrees either way while it is on the tire. I just twisted the cover around so that different parts of the elastic were accessible in the handhold at the bottom of the tire and tucked it all the way in while it was down there. I twisted it counter clockwise to do the left hand side and clockwise to do the right hand side. Then when I was done I twisted it to the proper orientation and finished tucking in the bottom elastic.
One more trick is that by twisting the tire cover back and forth it sort of settles in and seats itself on the wheel.
Just to make sure that it was not blind luck the first time, I took the cover off again and installed it again. The procedure works. It isn't dead easy, but it can be done in a few minutes.
Given the amount of decomposing crud I found inside of my tire cover, I think that I might make this a regular maintenance exercise from now on. I let it go way too long this time. You are supposed to check the tire pressure of the spare on a regular basis anyway.
I hope this helps any others who have wondered about this system, and if not, I hope you got a chuckle out of it anyway.
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| Cars | Imported |
| Types | Cars |
| Brand | Toyota |
| Model | RAV4 |
| Body | Standard |
| Products | Wheel boxes |
| Material | Stainless steel |
| Lid | ABS plastic |
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Spare wheel box for car TOYOTA RAV 4 is made in the form of a ring made of polished stainless steel equipped with a key lock in the joint area.
The ring contour fits the surface of the tire, which is closed at the end with a disc made of ABS plastic (a type of acrylic).
The construction of the box has high strength, and the construction materials are resistant to moisture, alkalis, acids, detergents, oils and retain their properties in the widest temperature range (from -40 to 90 oС).
If necessary, it can be painted in the colors of your car.
When buying 2 or more boxes, regardless of the car model, the discount is 10% box will rust - we will change it at our own expense!
Dd everyone! They stole the Vitara spare wheel cover, bitches.
There was a small castle from below (the owners will understand), it turned sour in the winter, removed it, and it wouldn’t help. Who gets out of the way? As I understand it, these covers for Vitarok like consumables have become? Maybe someone came up with some secrets?
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I'm so sorry! lost ... you can remove it altogether, let the wheel stand like that, or put a metal circle and a central plug on 3 doors.
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I can't figure out who needs a spare wheel cover besides the vitar guide? Therefore, when buying from the hands of such a cover, you need to buy a cover along with the hands of the seller ... and up to the elbow.
A padlock won't help there.
We need to come up with a mechanism that impales a thief on a stake right in front of the car !!!
Otherwise, Russian bestiality cannot be cured.
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Well, probably for this reason, Suzuki has deprived the spare wheel on the doors of the NSHA 2010 model year!
Well, on the topic, of course I sympathize with the author!
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Alex681 wrote:
Dd everyone! They stole the Vitara spare wheel cover, bitches.
There was a small castle from below (the owners will understand), it turned sour in the winter, removed it, and it wouldn’t help. Who gets out of the way? Maybe someone came up with some secrets?
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You won’t get out of the situation here. Paying for the budget of the car. The question was raised on the forum, someone wrote that the cap was removed even with a lock.
RuslanEM wrote:
I can't figure out who, apart from the vitarovod, needs a spare wheel cover? Therefore, when buying such a cover from the hands, you need to buy a cover along with the hands of the seller ... and up to the elbow ..
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It will be at some kind of disassembly that rottenness, the former Vitara, will fall, under it they will sell at least a thousand caps with the words "that's just what was left of it."
I touched on this topic in vain, as if the proculator with his help hadn’t stuck here either.
He’s special in showdowns.
2Alex681-once posted a post in the "Tuning and Modernization" section, so a sense of humor will help to cope. Be strong.
Answer: the spare wheel cover was stolen
Alex681 wrote:
Dd everyone! They stole the Vitara spare wheel cover, bitches. There was a small castle from below (the owners will understand), it turned sour in the winter, removed it, and it wouldn’t help. Who gets out of the way? As I understand it, these covers for Vitarok like consumables have become? Maybe someone came up with some secrets?
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I saw here the other day on the market in Kuntsevo a "case", well, like a universal one, i.e. a ring with a lock (like metal, chrome) and a central circle - just black plastic. Ouch. not expensive, like from 2 tr. up to 5 tr. Maybe just buy it and install it? And let the native lie quietly somewhere .... As an option?
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poland wrote:
I saw here the other day on the market in Kuntsevo a "case", well, like a universal one, i.
e. a ring with a lock (like metal, chrome) and a central circle - just black plastic. Ouch. not expensive, like from 2 tr. up to 5 tr. Maybe just buy it and install it? And let the native lie quietly somewhere .... As an option?
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In 2007, after driving into my Vitarka's ass, I looked at replacement options - in the Automotive store in the South Port I found a company with very nice plastic covers at about the same prices.
By the way, the "ring with a lock" is not buzzing, we bought one for Honda, but we didn’t even install it.
As an alternative, I like the "open" cover of the three-door.
PS: Is there CASCO? Shouldn't they be reimbursed?
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bos44 wrote:
[skip] As an alternative, I like the "open" cover of the three-door.
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if the car is black, and what - 3D, what is 5D - looks very aesthetically pleasing,
on it, a case with a stainless steel rim, but I will warn the topikstarter, so that
he was not deceived, as, for example, by me, by exist.ru office, - for 10,000 rupees, by me,
a stainless steel cover was ordered, and they brought [a five-story skip mat] chrome-plated, -
which, of course, I could not immediately determine, and there was no time, although - MAGNETEG,
taken with you, would come in handy ...
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bos44 wrote:
In 2007, after driving into the ass of my Vitarka, I looked at replacement options - in the Automotive store in the South Port I found a company with very nice plastic cases at about the same prices.
By the way, the "ring with a lock" is not buzzing, we bought one for Honda, but we didn’t even install it.
As an alternative, I like the "open" cover of the three-door.PS: Is there CASCO? Shouldn't they be reimbursed?
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Yes, there is Casco, of course, but for now, this and that, how long will it take to drive with a yellow round? Put on a summer disk or something for a while ... Now, if I caught it, I tore my hands up to my shoulders ... Well, what kind of freaks?
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leon eden wrote:
if the car is black, and what is 3D, what is 5D, it looks very aesthetically pleasing,
on it, a case with a stainless steel rim, but I will warn the topikstarter, so that
he was not deceived, as, for example, by me, by exist.ru office, - for 10,000 rupees, by me,
a stainless steel cover was ordered, and they brought [a five-story skip mat] chrome-plated, -
which, of course, I could not immediately determine, and there was no time, although - MAGNETEG,
brought with you, would be useful ...
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I like what it costs by definition, as you correctly noted, I don’t want to exchange for chrome ...
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Ivan Izrailevich wrote:
You won’t get out of the situation here. Paying for the budget of the car. The question was raised on the forum, someone wrote that the cap was removed even with a lock.
It will be at some kind of disassembly that rottenness, the former Vitara, will fall, under it they will sell at least a thousand caps with the words "that's just what was left of it."
I touched on this topic in vain, as if the proculator with his help hadn’t stuck here either. He’s special in showdowns.2Alex681-once posted a post in the "Tuning and Modernization" section, so a sense of humor will help to cope. Be strong.
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How can a person living in Russia not have a sense of humor? Even in this situation.
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I'm sorry.
I tried my own lock after the winter - it was alive, no matter how sitrane, although it looked dead. But I understand that this is for complacency, it won’t save anything if they want to take it off ...
What's with the caps? Out of habit, I went to the Opel Club and saw enough of the cooler pictures, incidentally captured by one of the members of the forum in the yard, Chesh turnips.
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and the spare wheel is not stolen yet? secrets must be installed on all wheels, the kit consists of 5 pieces in general.
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Hij wrote:
I sympathize.
I tried my own lock after the winter - it was alive, no matter how sitrane, although it looked dead. But I understand that this is for complacency, it won't save anything if they want to take it off... Out of habit, I went to the Opel Club and saw enough of the cooler pictures, incidentally captured by one of the members of the forum in the yard, Chesh turnips.
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it's like ours - right in front of the house they took off the wheels: hilarious:
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Hij wrote:
I sympathize.
I tried my own lock after the winter - it was alive, no matter how sitrane, although it looked dead. But I understand that this is for complacency, it won't save anything if they want to take it off... Out of habit, I went to the Opel Club and saw enough of the cooler pictures, incidentally captured by one of the members of the forum in the yard, Chesh turnips.Click to open...
Finally, these accordion pictures are pulled off the author!
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taking the doors off takes much longer than 4 wheels with 4 bolts I'm scratching my turnips.
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Krause wrote:
Finally, these accordion pictures are pulled off the author!
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I do not argue. I just said where I got them and how they were presented there.
semco wrote:
doors take much longer to remove than 4 wheels with 4 bolts I scratch my turnips.
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I agree with the account of secrets, it is necessary to deliver. I recently bought AT rubber here, so when the seller shipped it to me in the trunk, he was surprised that I had no secrets. He advised not to tempt passers-by with good wheels and still put the secrets - it’s even calmer.
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Hij wrote:
I do not argue.
I just said where I got them and how they were presented there.
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They now hang on many autoconfs.
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Krause wrote:
They now hang on many autoconfs.
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All the same tin!
I sometimes park the car in the yard at night (well, I kind of reassure myself that I have a helmet) when I am very tired, although there is a garage 10 minutes walk.
Now, probably, as an impressionable person, I will not be lazy - only a garage for the night.
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Hij wrote:
I do not argue. I just said where I got them and how they were presented there.
I agree with the account of secrets, it is necessary to put them. I recently bought AT rubber here, so when the seller shipped it to me in the trunk, he was surprised that I had no secrets.
He advised not to tempt passers-by with good wheels and still put the secrets - it’s even calmer.
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until the thunder breaks out... I bought a set of secrets so that they don't remove the spare wheel... in the store (Suzuki and Isuzu) there are offers for used spare wheel caps. An interesting situation .. Doesn't it seem to the members of the forum that we are slipping into pre-crisis 90?
on the spare wheel cover, I thought of only one thing.
To carefully knock out the car number from the side (yes, even with a burner or bromel and deeper). it will not save you from theft, but it can avert such a desire, since it will no longer be easy to sell. easier to find another "clean" one.
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Alex681 wrote:
Yes, there is Casco, of course, but for now, this and that, how long will it take to drive with a yellow round?
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You can agree with the insurance company that the compensation is in cash - you quickly buy a new case yourself, and the insurance company reimburses its cost by check.
At one time, I discussed this option with Ingosstrakh, they allowed it.
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bos44 wrote:
You can agree with the insurance company that the compensation is in cash - you yourself quickly buy a new cover, and the insurance company reimburses its cost by check.
At one time, I discussed this option with Ingosstrakh, they allowed it.Click to expand...
Happily, according to CASCO, everything seems to be included automatically.
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poland wrote:
Happily, according to CASCO, everything seems to be automatic.
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Not all insurance companies, in each specific insurance policy may differ.
You need to read your own - an insured event or not, when the cover was stolen or damaged.
Answer: spare wheel cover was stolenthousand with something (Germany). Chrome is sold for 4000 (China), but you can’t take it, it will peel off. By the way, this cap has a built-in lock, like a door lock (I only found it at home). To steal a cap, you need to break the lock bar or bend the rim and then throw it all away. By selecting the key, it is unlikely that the wrong contingent steals them.
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"Schelkovo" 2 Grand Vitara and 1 RAV-4 without caps on the spare wheels. The Vitara were especially distinguished by the yellow color of the dokatok disks. Like this: thumbsdown:
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kot wrote:
So don't pry - one second and 10-15 pip in your pocket ((
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Here are some thoughts and all sorts of things come up, can we take it off in figs and hang a bullshit like made in ROC? Let them steal...
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You can't take everything off. I have mirrors (tabs) on Omega2, weaving and MB. Put protection all ear torn off. Well, you won’t take off the mirrors ...
Answer: spare wheel cover was stolen I bought a cap with a rim of their stainless steel.
Pasted letters
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set
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the photo is not very good, it looks good live, despite the fact that the car is light. The option of sticking vinyl has disappeared, I'll leave it like that.
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Tell me please, where did you get the letters? And then I have a cap on an American woman without letters, but och.
hotst.
Answer: spare wheel cover 9 was stolen0144
My cap was broken, but the letters remained. They come separately and are attached with double-sided tape. In St. Petersburg, OD has it, the price is 5200.
I think Moscow is cheaper.
Or maybe it's easier with another Suzuki to remove the pattern, cut it out and paint it ...
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kot wrote:
My cap was broken, but the letters remained.
