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Spare Wheel Security

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Range Rover Blues:
There's 2 schools of thought on wheel covers, if you cover it up you might have something to hide.

If you live in an eara where they break into your car hoping you've left something hidden in your glovebox then your on a hiding to nothing. Rusy old series rim with a May-pop on it is probabaly all you'll get to keep.

If you live in a nice area with the choice of several spar wheels to steal then perhaps they'll nick the ones they can see are good.

Tony F:
On my old Disco the spare was a shiny new silver modular with an even shinier BFG Mud Terrain on it.

I had a Wizardbits High Lift mount so for starters you couldn't get the spare off without removing the jack.

Not wanting either nicked, I had two locking wheel nuts

One was an old one that needed a key, never had the key so never actually locked = visual deterent only, the other one was real.

I used a padlock through the hole in the jack mount and the jack

And for good measure had a chain through the wheel and rear door mount with another (larger) padlock also through one of the holes in the jack.

Paranoid.... moi?

Tommo:
I think the best thing you can do is get one of those wheel covers which are a hard plastic back with a stainless steel surround with a bolt at the bottom.

Anyone who has tried to get one of those off at the side of the road at night will know its totally impossible once the cheapo zinc plated bolt has welded its self to the nut.

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