Does the vehicle as sold by the factory come with a jack or indeed is there a space for a jack?

 

The obvious answer is that I should simply look to see but I created a vario-floor which is packed out with essential breakdown stuff I can't get enough space to lift out the polystryrene moulding.

 

I know the original electric inflator and tyre gunge were missing when I bought the car, these I replaced and also added tyre plug kits and one of those mushroom plug fitting sets plus wheelbrace etc, these I can remember and can see, what I can't recall is did I put a scissor jack in there? If I did then it's not visible and must be in a compartment beneath the moulding, I just cannot recall.

 

I used to carry a space saver wheel and bottle jack on the longer removal journeys but the latter was mainly for the trailers, I removed the rear seats a year ago and strapped the space saver wheel above the fuel tank but it has dawned on me that I may not have had a jack in all that time 😒

 

So back to the question, did the 4x4 without spare wheel have a jack or was there space for one?

 

Thanks in advance.

No, and no wheel-well so you have to store at the side.

 

My Audi 4x4 came without a spare but has a lined wheel-well so I bought all the bits myself. Just had to cut a slot through the lining that was above the thread hole that was precut into the boot floor. Also tried a couple of plastic retainers for the spare wheel centre before it held ok.

Edited 5 December, 20241 yr by Prezafab

11 hours ago, J.R. said:

Does the vehicle as sold by the factory come with a jack or indeed is there a space for a jack?

 

 

I dont believe it does in the UK just a can of goo, but if ordered as an option the tools are stored in the RHS foam boxes that surround the spare wheel and make supports for the carpet/hardwood panelled floor.

 

We ordered the spare wheel option with ours.

 

🙂

Edited 6 December, 20241 yr by TruckbusUK

After having a goosie, if the car is later and has AD-blue, then the tools are in a circular tub that fits inside the spare wheel .... 🙂

 

Its only the moulding for the detachable tow bar swan neck that in the later foam boxes, oh and a hole to allow the refilling of the Ad-blue tank.

Edited 6 December, 20241 yr by TruckbusUK
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As above, I can't speak for the pre-facelift cars, but our 2015 4x4 had no wheel well to put anything in.

 

Our 2017 4x4 has basically a raised floor to accommodate the fitted factory spare. Our dog knows we've changed their Yeti.

Mine has no wheel well but there is a foam insert which carries the towing eye etc, I dont think/dont recall that there was any space underneath it but I seem to recall some space in a box shaped pressing to the right that looked like a battery tray, maybe I put a jack in there? - I simply cannot recall.

 

There is only one thing for it, I will have to turf out all the brin to have a proper look and then find it refuses to pack away again, you know how it is when you keep squeezing extra "essential" items in!!!!

 

Better for me to find out here and now that I didn't put a jack in there than at the side of the road with a puncture.

Can't speak for the post facelift 4x4 but the brochure  for classic Yetis says standard is "tyre repair set, compressor plus bottle of adhesive " with an option for a "temporary space saver spare wheel (16") with jack, false boot floor and net programme (whatever that was)". The option was £85 in 2013 across the range (except S). 

I guess the logic was without a spare on board what would be the purpose of jacking up the car at the roadside as road side assistance would have thier own jack etc.

Agreed, I'll dig it all out tomorrow.

 

I hope I had the presence of mind to add a jack if there was the space, I'm annoyed I can't recall and will be doubly annoyed if I have been hauling the space saver around instead of the rear seats for no reason.

 

I would have been triply annoyed to have found out with a puncture at the side of the autoroute.

 

No roadside assistance for me, in France its the quickest way to say goodbye to your vehicle or bucketloads of money. What I have saved over 20 years of not having it would pay for someone to recover my vehicle 1000km to my home rather than be held to ransom by the local garage in cahoots with the breakdown insurer.

Edited 6 December, 20241 yr by J.R.

54 minutes ago, J.R. said:

 

No roadside assistance for me, in France its the quickest way to say goodbye to your vehicle or bucketloads of money. What I have saved over 20 years of not having it would pay for someone to recover my vehicle 1000km to my home rather than be held to ransom by the local garage in cahoots with the breakdown insurer.

I don't blame you.

 

In a previous life 20 years ago I managed upset British Mercedes-Benz customers breaking down abroad. France was the worst ! Credit card to get off the Autoroute, customers abandoned, car towed to Merc dealer who might have a look in a couple of weeks...