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Will my spare fit over 4 pot brakes?

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Old 01-31-09, 01:29 PM
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Will my spare fit over 4 pot brakes?

My car was originally a 4 lug car. It now has a 5 lug conversion with 4 pot front brakes.

Will a spare from a non 4 pot car fit over the 4 pot brakes or do those cars have a special spare?

Now that I think about it my spare might be 4 lug, rendering it useless anyway. I'll have to go check.
Old 01-31-09, 03:15 PM
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If you've got a 5 lug spare, it should fit.
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I found that the issue was more with if you have the vented rear brakes, the 5-lug steel spare I had would hit the caliper. I have the aluminium enkie spare now. I haven't had to use it yet, but I'm pretty sure it fits... I hope.
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Interesting. I've never had to try my steel spare over the rear, but it fit on the front just fine.
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Interesting indeed. I had heard about the alumnium spare, which promped my question here.
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The spare goes on the rear hubs easily. It saved my *** probably 6 time. I didn't know that people were unsure of the back... Goes on just fine.
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