Aired down 35" tire in the factory spare location?

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I'm currently considering various suspension and tire options and want to retain the use of the factory spare location. No heavy rear bumper for me.

It seems the consensus from other threads is that 34" is the max diameter tire that will fit in the factor spare location. But could you get a 35" in there if you air it down?
 
My buddy has a 35" x 12.5" R18 BFG All-Terrain fully inflated under his 200.
 
No he didn't have to trim anything. It barely fits, but it fits. I have 285/75/17 BFG AT's (34") and mine fits a little better. His 35" seems like it hangs down lower.
 
I would also be concerned about that much weight hanging on that winch/chain. Eventually you're gonna hit a big bump/dip in the road, and... well I wouldn't want to be in the car right behind you.

I carried a 34" tire under the back of my mini-truck, and I always had a stout ratchet strap under it hooked to the frame on each side. But you need to keep an eye on the ratchet, those things rust pretty quickly no matter how much you grease them up.
 
My buddy has a 35" x 12.5" R18 BFG All-Terrain fully inflated under his 200.
Thats a 34.5" tire at best. it is definitely the upper limit
 
I would also be concerned about that much weight hanging on that winch/chain. Eventually you're gonna hit a big bump/dip in the road, and... well I wouldn't want to be in the car right behind you.

I carried a 34" tire under the back of my mini-truck, and I always had a stout ratchet strap under it hooked to the frame on each side. But you need to keep an eye on the ratchet, those things rust pretty quickly no matter how much you grease them up.

That's a great point. In my case I'd skip the ratchet strap and go for some old-fashioned rope--more marine-style, I guess. P.O.S.H (Portside Out, Starboard Home) rope is great for this sort of thing: negligible stretch and reasonably easy to handle when wet. Once you get used to rope, all you need is a bag of it to cover a lot of needs. Soft, lightweight, and you can stuff it into nooks and crannies with no metal clanging around.
 
I just put 35's (35x12.5 Toyo RT's) on mine. Tried to put the 35 up under there...its definitely not going in without SERIOUS massaging.... I've seen people deflate and put a ratchet strap around it to make it fit... but i'm not into that. I've been looking at the Wilco hitchmount to get it out of the trunk. Anybody with experience w/the Wilco?
 
I just put 35's (35x12.5 Toyo RT's) on mine. Tried to put the 35 up under there...its definitely not going in without SERIOUS massaging.... I've seen people deflate and put a ratchet strap around it to make it fit... but i'm not into that. I've been looking at the Wilco hitchmount to get it out of the trunk. Anybody with experience w/the Wilco?

I’ve got the Wilco hitch swing for my bike rack and love it. I know someone with a tire swing out and he’s pretty happy. They make good stuff.
 
One consideration is that below 30 psi and you'll have a constant TPMS warning.

Not really the case. Just so we are all talking the same language, this is what I mean when I say "Initialize the tire pressure warning system:"

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Procedure might be slightly different depending on model year and whether LC200 or LX570 (consult your owner's manual), but the principle is the same for all models.

One can inflate the tires to any pressure(s) one wants. For example, I set my for in use tires to 40psi, but my spare is set to 80psi. After I initialize the tire pressure warning system with these pressures, the low pressure alarm will trigger when any tire goes 25% below the pressure set when initialized. This means any tire which was initialized at 40psi would trigger an alarm when its tire pressure reaches 30psi (25% below set pressure), but the spare tire would trigger an alarm when its pressure reaches 60psi (25% below set pressure).

The point is, each tire is initialized independently and triggers an alarm independently from other tires - regardless of set pressures.

Conceivably, one could set one pressure for the front tires (e.g. 40psi), a different pressure for the rear tires (e.g. 46psi), and yet a still different pressure for the spare tire (e.g. 80psi) and then initialize the tire pressure warning system with those pressures. In this hypothetical scenario, the low pressure alarm would trigger at 30psi for the front tires, 35psi for the rear tires, and 60psi for the spare tire.

So... as long as the tire pressure warning system is initialized with the desired tire pressures, even if one is significantly lower than the other four, no low pressure alarm would trigger unless any one of the tires went below its individually set tire pressure.

HTH
 

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