[Adlzook]

I am wondering if anyone has made a steel rear bumper and dual spare wheel carrier for the Sierra. I have a 97 Coily and am keen to make one myself or have one made, just looking for design options.

[Gwagensteve]

It's arguable that a Sierra needs one spare, let alone two. Whenever this comes up I put the call out to see if anyone has had a non-repairable tyre failure in a Sierra running LT tyres and I'm yet to see or hear of one.

I don't believe two tyres will fit across the car. And the impact on payload of having a rear bar and two tyres will be very severe.

Steve.

[jdk81]

From personal experience
One tyre on a swingaway carrier is a ridiculous amount of extra unnecessary weight on a sierra.
It made the car handle poorly and greatly reduced capability.

Every kg of modifications you add makes the handle worse and less capable.

IMO there's not many mods offering gain for the weight worth doing on a sierra/jimny/lj

Carrying two spares way behind the rear diff, on a double swing away carrier is a shitload of extra weight and will really bring the suck!

On a fat ass cruiser or patrol doing grey nomad duties, or the look duties, two spares may be required and justified, and not so proportionally detrimental.

[1DYX]

on the plus side, it raises the front a bit!

I've never seen a dual carrier for a zook. A google search didn't find any either....

[Adlzook]

I think that is all good advice.. I have not seen a dual spare wheel carrier either, I suppose there is a good reason for that..! Has anyone ever heard of a need for 2 wheel replacements in the bush on a Sierra?

Thanks for the comments..

[1DYX]

Mind you, we carried up to 3 spare wheels in our mustering LJ's, but
they were razor blades... and usually only 1 on the rear, with the other 2 inside the back.... meh

[pezz]

my tyres are 14 years old and my spare is a original bar tread. i doubt ill use it, weather i need it or not,
it gets some looks from the hi-tech wheelers tho

[Gwagensteve]

The smart guys run the smallest, lightest/narrowest spare they can on the back door (normally a 6.50 or 7.00 bar tread on a 16X4.5 Sierra rim) and carry plugs, a compressor and tyre levers. A compressor and levers are pretty handy to have anyway, and the plugs weigh nothing. Throw in a couple of valve stems and you really have all bases covered.

I stopped carrying a spare a long time ago. I admit I don't do distance work, but I still don't think I'd carry a full sized spare, let alone two.

Steve.

[J--A--C--K]

I carried a 30x9.5 muddie on the roof from Melbourne to Perth through the Kimberly and the top end befor coming home via the center and a bit of the flinders.

The whole way every nomad or family in a fat ass patrol told me that I needed another spare.
And I heard nothing but stories about people blowing 2 or 3 tyres on the Gibb and ripping tyres from the rims in the sand running really low 20 psi hahaha , and the rocks in the flinders were going to shred my tyres.

At the end of 35,000 ks with lots of off-road the spare was still on the roof. And so was my broken transfer case.
And my original engin was in bits in Walpole WA, with some of it on the side of the road.

Carrying one spare is a good idea , a second one would just be a pain in the ass.
I don't carry one when I wheel around Vic .

[Reubs]

Gwagensteve wrote:

I don't believe two tyres will fit across the car.

X2. 2 modestly sized tyres with a very narrow gap between them would obscure the mirrors. The overhang of 2x 31s on a dual wheel carrier would start acting like a parachute!

IMO if you want a second spare on your suzuki carry tyre levers and a wheel unmounted without an extra rim.

[pezz]

If i can find a matching tyre to my other 4 my plan is to carry a spare tyre only, no rim.. it will live in my tray and my tool bag will live inside it