That may be but I dont think that will appease, should the worst happen, you rear end someone because your braking distances are much worse than theirs due to the tyres.
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A standard spare works fine in an emergency but don't go banging down the motorway at 80mph on it ... a few steady miles to the tyre shop works ok. In my experience anyway.
Even if the tyre size is massively different to the swampers?
Unless you are 4motion.
Yeah. Make sure is on the back and take it steady. It'll get you home and onward to the local Nankang supplier
Yep. On the back preferably though.
That's a thing ... so mines a 4Mo, currently on 235/55/18 not sure what size the spare is but it's a 17 incher ... so if I had to put the spare on (on the back) would it upset the 4Mo gubbins if the rear wheels weren't being driven at all?
If you were to fit a 235/60/17 to the spare it'd be only 0.5% different in rolling circumference to the 235/55/18's on your van.
I think that'd be fine on a 4Motion van as a get you home or to the tyre depot solution, to put that into perspective, it'd be no different to having 2mm difference in tread depth difference.
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Even if the rear wheels aren't being driven?
