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Afternoon all.  whilst having a nose around my new (to me) 57 plate Fabia, I took the spare wheel out and it has this sticker on it:

 

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As this is a full sized spare with a standard tyre, do I really have to stick to 50 mph?

 

Cheers

Pete

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Is the tyre exactly the same size as the tyres on the car? If so there is no reason to run it at 50 mph.

Sometimes the spare is on a smaller diameter rim with a taller profile tyre, so that the outside diameter of the tyre is the same as the ones on the car.

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The spare wheel / tyre might well be the same size and the rim the same weight,

but is it a brand new tyre, odd to the wear of the other 3, maybe still a 'green / fresh' tyre. 

and is the pressure checked and matching the tyre on the other side of the car.

 

Best to slow down if one tyre is an odd one out on a car, van what ever with 4 wheels.

At least until it has some wear if it matches the other 3 in the other aspects.

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What is the speed rating on the actual tyre?

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Theyre just normal tyres i think.

Its the actual steel that has the rating.

Personally think its because the wheel nuts have only been done by hand with a crap wrench, but could be wrong :D

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is it really worth to take the risk?

the 50mph sticker is there for a reason.

i'm using a spare wheel at the moment on my VRS till tonight as am having 2 new tyres fitted. i drove at 50mph to work. its fine

If its a full size spare n id put it on.. I wouldnt worry about going too slow. I would torque the nuts when i got home though.

My spare on my 2013 doesnt have a sticker.

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Nobody really need worry, 

well unless you exit the road or have some out of traction incident when you never meant to and the person inspecting your car spots one odd wheel out with a big yellow advice sticker on it.

 

Full Size should really be thought of as matching the size of the other tyres.

If you look, think and decide that all is well, then maybe remove that 'Warning / Advice Sticker' from the spare wheel.

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this is the tyre:

 

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A new (9 year old) unused standard sized tyre, which is quite a lot nicer than the tyres fitted to the road wheels....

 

If you can get the wheel nuts of with the standard chocolate wheel brace, you can get them back on tight enough to prevent the wheel falling off on the way home IMHO.  I carry a breaker bar with a wheel nut socket on it, so all I need to worry about is trying to avoid skinning my knuckles on the road whilst using the standard jack, I won't be carrying around my trolly jack like I did in my last vehicle (a mk2 Caddy van) as there isn't enough room in the boot.  Maybe I should've bought a Roomster......

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So if it matches others on the car, other than being in better condition, and it is not Directional, there is just the newness to concider.

(just a tyre that goes on a Rim with a 'Outside' Marking, are the tyres on the car the same?.)

 

So no need for the 'Speed Limited' sticker really.

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The only concern here could be that that tyre is 9 years old, okay it has been shielded from the sun etc, but it is 9 years old now, so probably the synthetic rubber is becoming a big harder that it was originally - so its potential performance will have altered.

 

Same concerns should go for any tyre on a spare wheel that has got to that age, so yes, go easy on it and don't expect miracles.

 

Edit:- This is one other reason why I rather having a "identical" spare wheel if that is possible,  having that means that you can rotate the wheels to even out the wear over time (if you are lucky enough to avoid trashing one), and still end up with a serviceable spare wheel/tyre as time goes in - typically in my case over the 12>15 years or ownership.

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