Why have we yet to see a Spare Tire Cover?

[Judge Rufus]

On a more serious note...

Why the hell do you want one?

- Does the spare tire really need protecting?
- Do you just want more surface area to promote the Bronco brand, or some other slogan you feel other drivers need to see?

Curious minds want to know.

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[GrandGrady]

Rear camera. Look at the lack of JLs with tire covers. People just don't really use them anymore.

 

[North7]

Has anyone thought about why we have yet to see a Spare Tire Cover? Just food for thought.

Most likley because it would put the Bronco over GVWR.

 

[RG7]

Probably because they are ugly. Personally would rather be looking at my SQ wheel and tire hanging off the back than “Jeep girls go topless” in pink letters emblazoned on the back of my vehicle.

To your point, there is evidence pulled by someone from somewhere that Ford has these in the works, but again I think BN is more concerned about marketing the main features of the vehicle right now as opposed to worrying about a five dollar piece of vinyl with a glory hole in the middle.

No doubt there will be plenty of these available though.

 

[FourHorses]

Has anyone thought about why we have yet to see a Spare Tire Cover? Just food for thought.

Because we don't want this.

 

[Paul Gagnon]

Has anyone thought about why we have yet to see a Spare Tire Cover? Just food for thought.

Why don't you order one from some SoCal dealership that you have never even heard of, just like Jeep people do?

 

[dejones64]

What's your plan if you cut a tire?

Best have a tire repair kit, and hope the sidewall isn't damaged.

 

[AZHUND]

Rear camera. Look at the lack of JLs with tire covers. People just don't really use them anymore.

Until you get one as a present from your significant other and then “have” to use it....

But yeah they solved the complex physics problem of having a rear view camera a while back. Aftermarket just needs to measure the obscene camera tube sticking out of a Bronco spare before they release them. Should take maybe five minutes.

 

[FourHorses]

Until you get one as a present from your significant other and then “have” to use it....

 

[ZackDanger]

On a more serious note...

Why the hell do you want one?

- Does the spare tire really need protecting?
- Do you just want more surface area to promote the Bronco brand, or some other slogan you feel other drivers need to see?

Curious minds want to know.

Quite a few Wrangler owners go with a spare cover because they only upgrade 4 wheels/tires either for cost or carrier limit reasons, and want to hide the mis-matched 5th wheel.

 

[Judge Rufus]

Who does that? You rotate your spare into tire configuration. That way you get the full utilization of the spare's life and don't have to buy new tires as often.

 

[Stampede.Offroad]

I laugh when this comes up, every time there's a post about a spare tire cover, like it's some insurmountable obstacle.

Ford may very well put the hole in the wrong place though when they finally release a cover.

Well ... they ****** up the front camera already by mounting the winch right in front of it, it wouldn't surprise me that they somehow forgot that putting a cover over the spare tire would block the rear camera.

Neither one of those may seem too hard to figure out, but we've already seen one of them play out ...

 

[splathead]

I wouldn't be caught dead with a cover, personally. If I am paying for 5 rims, I want to show 5 rims.

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