so i got a flat in the right rear lastnight and decided to change it ..

come to my surprise earlier that my spare is bigger than my stock tires by some inches.


so instead of it being easy to change my flat .. i had to take the good one off the front then put the spare
on the front then put the good on one the back ...

the spare looks alot better than the stock .. one becuase its black and two it closes the gap
more between the tire and my fender

 

is that a stock spare?

 

im the third owner so i have no idea.. the person who had it before me put smaller tires on it i guess. and the spare still has quite a bit of tread left.. 80% of those little rubber things that are on new tires are still there

 

yeah so i would get a bigger spare sometime lol

 

well that is weird, did you buy new tires that are too small?

 

those are the tires that were on the truck when i bought it .. i think im going to buy bigger tires for my stock wheels and paint the wheels black. and that spare is the same wheel size as my stock ones but its not a matching stock wheel just a spare

 

what are the numbers on the tire? 225-70-15?
and is the second pic the bigger tire? it still looks alittle small, but bigger then what i can see in your pic next to your name.

 

the stock number is p205/70r14
the spare number is p225/70r14 M+S

regarding the 2nd pic the tire on the left is the spare and the tire on the right is the stock one

 

Exact same thing happen to me on the exact same tire. I put my spare tire on, and noticed it was bigger. I want to find bigger tires off an Explorer now because I like the way it looks.

 

your spare looks to be the same one i have. i'd be screwed if i ever had to put that thing on lol

especially after i put the 33's on.

 

haha that's funny. But it's better than a donut tire lol.

 

Weird... Guess it is time for a lift...

 

I've got the same one to. Weird.

 

i had wee tires on my truck when i first got it

when i got new tires later that year i had 225's put on....they look MUCH better
they really fill up the wheel well without hitting the fender or looking too big

 

yea i like the way the spare looks.. toobad with the fkd economy i cant get some matching ones