I recently bought a space-saver spare and associated genuine parts for our car from Caffyns.  Not cheap, (£288 delivered) but certainly comprehensive!  I took a series of photos when I did the job.  Would anyone be interested if I posted up a "How-to" on here?

£288 certainly isn’t cheap especially since it was only around £100 to choose as a factory fit option.

I always like the security of having a spare wheel and got the factory fit on my current Kodiaq and the new facelift models now have a spare wheel as standard.

I’m sure a how to in the guide section wouldn’t go a miss as there’s always others of the same mind that want a spare wheel and not to rely on the horrible gunk.

 

My daughter bought a used Capture with no spare wheel. It is £250 when supplied, and I asked about having one supplied for her used car. Salesman told me the aftermarket price from Renault is over £600 (bs?). I got one (new unused) from ebay for ~£170.

 

I have just looked up the Kodiq on Carwow to find a price. They only list SE Standard, SE 7 Seat and SE-L. The SE standard appears to have a steel space saver, the 7 seater SE and SE=L don't appear to have one available at all. No other versions listed. Just checked my Karoq order, I'm paying £155. The Karoq doesn't seem to be available on Carwow at all!

10 minutes ago, Routemaster1461 said:

I have just looked up the Kodiq on Carwow to find a price. They only list SE Standard, SE 7 Seat and SE-L. The SE standard appears to have a steel space saver, the 7 seater SE and SE=L don't appear to have one available at all. No other versions listed. Just checked my Karoq order, I'm paying £155. The Karoq doesn't seem to be available on Carwow at all!

 

All the Kodiaq variants are available on Carwow - if you filter by manual, then you won't see the SportLine, L&K or vRS as they only come with DSG boxes. The spare wheel isn't listed as an option on the 7-seat variants because it is now standard, as Kenny R mentioned above.

 

As for the Karoq - that's now only available from stock because of the impending facelift.

On 24/10/2021 at 08:58, Kenny R said:

£288 certainly isn’t cheap especially since it was only around £100 to choose as a factory fit option.

I always like the security of having a spare wheel and got the factory fit on my current Kodiaq and the new facelift models now have a spare wheel as standard.

I’m sure a how to in the guide section wouldn’t go a miss as there’s always others of the same mind that want a spare wheel and not to rely on the horrible gunk.

 

Apologies for the delay - managed to get Covid and then got hospitalised!

How-to for 7 seater spacesaver installation, (car originally equipped with can of slime and a compressor), if it's of any use to anyone.

Lift out the rearmost floor panel.

 

 

Flip up the two side covers and lift out the "modesty curtain"

 

 

 

Lift out the separator board

 

 

 

Pull the tabs to release the Row 3  seat base.

 

 

 

You don't have to do this next bit, but it makes access a bit easier. I popped the gas struts off their bottom mountings to allow the seat base to lift higher.

 

 

 

Then tied the seat base to the head rest bars to keep it up out of the way.

 

 

 

Pull out the carpet and take out the foam tray for the compressor and tyre repair "slime".

 

 

This exposes the wheel recess and captive nuts for the steel retaining bar that goes over the front edge of the spacesaver tyre.

 

 

 

Tighten the 4 screws to secure the steel retaining bar to the captive nuts.

 

 

It should look like this, with the top of the retaining bar just under the leading edge of the seat.

 

 

Fit the curved bit of carpet. It's a bit fiddly, it goes AHEAD of the steel retaining bar and then the ears at each side face backwards.

 

 

Peel off the backing and glue down the two side pieces of carpet.

 

 

 

Fit the spare wheel with the yellow speed warning labels facing DOWNWARDS and push the plastic retaining screw down into the slotted steel pressing on the floor of the car below the centre hole in the wheel then turn it 90 degrees to lock it.

 

 

Fit the new foam tray just behind the wheel.

 

 

 

Secure the tray with the two Torx-headed plastic push nuts. There are studs already in the steel floor to accept them. DO NOT over-tighten!

 

The jack handle goes in first, under the jack.

 

 

I wasn't quite sure where all the other bits go, but I think it's like this:

 

 

 

Fit the new piece of rear carpet over the tool tray. Fold the forward edge up at right angles and push the Fir tree clips into the holes already in the rearmost round bar forming the Row 3 seat base.

 

 

 

11 hours ago, Avocet said:

You don't have to do this next bit, but it makes access a bit easier. I popped the gas struts off their bottom mountings to allow the seat base to lift higher.

 

I'd argue it would be near on impossible if you didn't do that, from looking at your pictures...

 

Anyway, hope you're feeling better now - and good write-up!

16 hours ago, Yogi-Bear said:

 

I'd argue it would be near on impossible if you didn't do that, from looking at your pictures...

 

Anyway, hope you're feeling better now - and good write-up!

 

I think I could probably have done it.  Perhaps getting that first bit of carpet in, ahead of the big steel top hat bracket, would have been the hardest bit if I hadn't.

And yes, much better now thanks.  Despite two vaccinations, I got Covid and a month or so later, thought I hadn't got rid of it, because I was still experiencing breathing difficulties.  Eventually, it got bad enough to put me in hospital.  There, they found out that I was over the Covid infection, but the breathing difficulties were actually down to a couple of bloody big blood clots in my lungs!  Was in there for a few days while they sorted me out but am feeling much better now, thanks.

I'm looking at this on my phone is there anyway the original op can send me this via email so I can print it off

10 hours ago, neverlandandy said:

I'm looking at this on my phone is there anyway the original op can send me this via email so I can print it off

You'd be very welcome to them, if you send me a message with your e-mail in it?

(Probably just as easy to copy the post and paste it into a Word document though)?

Planning on buying a Kodiaq either Sportline or SEL around 2018. Anyone know if the above fix would work in any Kodiaq 7 seater or not guaranteed?

As far as I'm aware, it would work for any of them. Ours is the 4x4, so there would be less space under it than any of the front wheel drive ones.

13 minutes ago, Avocet said:

As far as I'm aware, it would work for any of them. Ours is the 4x4, so there would be less space under it than any of the front wheel drive ones.

Appreciate the response! Good to know, I'm thinking 4WD also. Are you able to still get flat boot with the spare wheel in place or no?

Yes, we have 3 rows of seats and when the second two rows are folded flat, they're at the same height as the lift-out panel behind Row 3. It's a good system to be honest, but the Row 3 seat gas struts that are supposed to prop the seats slightly up for you to get the spacesaver out, have a habit of losing pressure, which makes it a bit irritating but not impossible.

Can confirm I have since bought my Kodiaq (Sportline 2.0 TDI 4WD) and the above works in this also with flat boot and still a reasonable bit of under lid/side pocket storage