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V70 spare V70-XC70 1999

posted by  David in NC on  Sun Mar 9 09:48 CST 2008
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A couple of times my wife has called from the road that she had a flat. So I'd go out and change to the spare and she would limp home observing the 50mph max warning. I never did find a leak, so I changed the valve stem and have been okay since.

But I started wishing we had a full size spare. I found a matching rim on ebay, bought it, and mounted a decent tire on it. THEN I found that Volvo makes it almost impossible to put a full size spare under the rear deck. I removed the styrofoam ring that located the donut spare and a metal brace, but the 195/60/15 tire is still too wide. I'm afraid the only thing left to do is to remove every bit of the 3rd seat and its hardwear. I'm a little reluctant to do this even though the 3rd seat is nearly useless and we have never used it.

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions? TIA






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