etrailer | Curt Trailer Hitch Spare Tire Mount Spec Review

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What's up, everybody. Adam here with etrailer. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Curt Spare Tire Carrier. Well, this is gonna carry your spare tire. Whether you're maybe just off-roading and you wanna get that tire out from underneath your vehicle and on the back, it's gonna be great for that. Good for the back hitch of your camper or even the front hitch of your motor home.

So all you need for this is a two-inch hitch receiver to be able to accommodate for this shank here. Just to see if your wheel's gonna work with the spare tire carrier, we've seen eight-lug wheels work on here, but just to give you an idea. So if the measurement from the center of one hole to the center of the other exceeds six inches, it's probably not gonna work, but we do have a decent amount of vertical adjustments as well, since we have this taller slot. And that's about 6 1/4 inches from center to center. So in our instance from center to center, it's about 2 1/2 inches and then from center to center of our other one, it's about 4 1/8 of an inch.

So we we're totally good and we can go a lot bigger even. Another thing to think about is the offset of your wheels. So on this one right here, basically what I'm doing is measuring from the back face of where it's gonna mount onto the carrier to the edge of our rubber. It's about four inches. And if you notice down here, we have about an inch or so of room.

So if that exceeded five, then we're gonna have to do something about that. Probably grab another one just because it's not really gonna work. So those are some things just to see exactly if your tire is gonna fit on the carrier. A couple of measurements for ya. One, we're gonna have a 12-inch long shank, which is just right here.

So it's gonna be about 14 inches altogether. But what really matters is if this center mast is gonna hit your vehicle wherever you may have it. So basically from the back of the shank, it's gonna be about 2 1/2 inches, about 4 1/2 inches, and about 6 1/2 inches. So they are spread apart by two-inch increments, but what really matters is where this front, the back of this center mast, where it's gonna hit your vehicle. So from the back center hitch-pin hole it's about 9 1/2 inches, this is about 7 1/2 inches, and this is about 5 1/2 inches. This'll also be pretty useful for RVs or campers. Right now, we have the spare tire way underneath there and that's just kind of gonna be a pain. So with this, if you're not using your hitch receiver, might as well do it. If you do have a bumper and you can get one of those bumper-mounted hitch receivers, you could do that and still be able to utilize the bumper for other accessories. So this is gonna be a great choice for that. But with your motor homes, you can put it in the front. We don't have a front hitch at the shop right now, but that's another thing that you guys do a lot. If I we're to compare this to any of the other ones we have on our site, one that's literally identical is the etrailer one. We just saw the Curt and we thought it was missing a couple things, so we provide you with the hardware for your tire. We give you an anti-rattle bolt that goes through, so you won't have all of this happening and you don't have to grab something separate. But also we get a hitch alignment tool, which is nice. You can use it on other accessories as well. So I would definitely recommend grabbing that one just because it comes with more goodies. Why not But if you really wanted to upgrade from just the basic spare tire carrier, we have some that actually rotate down so you can install it a lot easier, you can take it off a lot easier, and if you do put it on the back of your vehicle, you can open up the hatch that way as well. One thing I would add to the setup is a lock for your spare tire, just so it doesn't run off. It just basically takes place of this little bolt and it'll just lock into place, and you can get it keyed alike if you went with the etrailer locking hitch pin. Let's go ahead and just take the spare tire carrier out of the box. There's no assembly with the carrier. And we do have three different holes to choose from. So just depending on what the situation is, you wanna get it as close to the vehicle as possible. It does not come with a hitch pin or a clip, so you just wanna get a 5/8-diameter pin. And since it is a hollow shank, what you could do is you could just get an anti-rattle just because that's kind of annoying. So if you wanted to do that, we do have some here at etrailer, and you