My father wants a spare tire for his c5 corvette. Does anyone have a spare tire from maybe a trans am or camaro they want to get rid of? All help is greatly appreciated.

 

^ The issue is what size spare to put in... if you put in a 17" spare and get an 18" flat you're screwed and vise versa.

Personally I have all 18's so I could do it. Just get the newest generation run-flats or get a tire-inflator kit like my Z06 comes with. Oh and having AAA and a credit card can come in handy for road trips.

FWIW the "tub" in the rear of the C5 was actually designed to house a donut spare as during the design of the C5 platform runflat technology was new and had not been given the go ahead... hence the curvey catback exhaust vs. straight out.

 

Yeah I noticed the new Z06 is 325 and all but the freakin sidewalls are thick as hell, speaking of spare tires and corvettes when is the last time they every came with one?

 

also tell him not to use fix a flat.. TPS's are expensive!

 

Yes if you have tire pressure sensors "fix a flat" will ruin them, but my car never came with them.

 

I just use run-flats, I have a screw in both my rear tires now and I have been driving the car with no problems. I'm getting the rear tires replaced this weekend.

 

Runcraps suck for handling, ride, they're noisey, and far more expensive.

 

But they work.

 

thanks everyone for your responses. These are definetly things to think about. I will tell my father not to use the fix-a-flat. he just wants a spare just to get off the highway to a safer place. Maybe I can find a single c5 18 and we should be good.

 

They are on my winter wheels.