Yep, I took out my spare tire to check the air pressure and it was low. I pumped it back up with hand pump, I do this with all four tires, good work out...lol. Then check it and all good. Getting ready to put it back I hear a swoosh of water in there. I move it around and sure enough, there's water in there. I checked the spare tire well and nothing wet or moist what so ever in there. What could it be??

 

Gasoline.

 

are your hatch drains plugged up? mine were when it flodded the spare tire compartment.

 

I'll see later, but as I said, the well, was dry. How would it be gasoline??

 

i think he was just pulling your leg lol

 

No, I'm not pulling his leg, the sound could be the gas moving around in the tank while he's moving the car up/down to put the spare in.

 

Oh, ok...lol. I checked the drains, not clogged. Drains are on tight too. Oh, sorry misunderstanding stevan. Sorry, didn't describe good then. I still have the wheel in my hands. when i move the wheel, outsied of the car, there is a liquid in there for sure.

 

lol, I thought he said his spare tire well was wet. when you said gasoline, I couldnt think of any way for gas to work its way up there...


sorry for mistake, I cant read

 

hhahahah. Its not that big a deal i guess anyways. Nothing damp, moist or wet in the car anyways.

 

Nope, it's all good, and funny!
The water balances your wheel/tire combo(from what I've read), I think thats why the "tire mounters" don't bother to get the water out.
Although, it probably doesn't help the rust factor on the steel rim.

 

So, thats been there since factory Stevan??

 

i wish i had a pic of my spare... it was submerged and/or wet for so long the rust made a hole in it, making it a perma-flat.

 

I don't know, I have not had his spare tire/rim in my possession since it was made at the factory.
How else would water get into a pressurized tire, unless it was flat at some point.

 

hmm, thats weird. Oh well. atleast its not leaking int the well

 

I always leave one of the little round black guys unpluged and any water will drain out everytime I drive, not sure where you're leak is coming from tho.

 

I think he's saying theres water inside the tire itself.
Maybe over the years(or all at once), putting air in from a waterlogged compressor injected water into it?

 

I think its just water thats condensed out of the air in the tire and over the years its built up in there.

You might want to have the tire remounted to get rid of the water though for a couple of reasons. Rust on the steel wheel is the obvious one. The other is that the water in there can get heated up if you try to use the tire (like as a replacement when you get a flat) and can cause a lot of expansion if it gets hot enough, might blow the tire off the rim in an extreme case. Out in LV it probably could get hot enough if you ran on it long enough.

Mister Murphy is just waiting to getcha with that tire :-)

 

Am I understanding this right that there is liquid inside the spare tire itself? If so, it's probably Fix-A-Flat.

 

T g farrell, thats what I was thinking about over the years, just being built up, I dont know. There is a little bit of rust on the back of the wheel though(little spots).

Trochoid, yes, there is liquid in the tire itself.

 

Put a regulator valve on and a hose - woot woot Fake NAWZZZ purge