Any std. 172 owner removed the spare wheel?

[hkka]

Will it effect the driving a lot? Faster?
Will the front be too heavy?
Front/Rear ratio will have big difference?

 

[Batman]

of just the wheel you wont notice to much difference if you take the back seats out to you may notice some difference

 

[Laura]

fook all difference

 

[jelfsy]

no differnece at all...only weighs bout 4 kilos if you have spare alloy, toolkit only wieghs about 1 kilo..prob the equivalent to a 1/4 tank of fuel

 

[Tim172]

Fuel weights 40+kg, but the wheel/tyre weighs a lot more than 4kg too

Took spare out of my old MK2 Ph1 1.2 and it made no difference at all so I wouldn't bother unless you're going for 1/4 miles

 

[davebem]

No noticable difference, might aswel keep it.

 

[Lagerlout]

It weighs about 15kg with a tyre. Not insignificant, but doubtful whether you'd actually notice it save for on the strip.

 

[Steve2004]

Fuel weights 40+kg

Fuel isn't quite that heavy.


The spare wheel and tool kit weigh about 20kg together.

 

[Lagerlout]

What's the specific gravity of petrol? 0.7 ish? So about 35kg for a full tank?

All I know is the 172 spare is about as heavy as an alloy can get. lol. Big chunky f*****s lol.

 

[Ian_182]

Agree, there heavy as fook

 

[Timmay]

yep - v heavy doubt it will make any differecne taking it out though

 

[joe81]

don't 4get to carry a can of tyre weld if you take it out. The voice of experiance says you'll get a flat on a country road in the back of beyond:dapprove:

.......then you sound like a real prat when yer tellin the AA why you don't have it