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Big_Dan

Member Since: 28 Jan 2005
Location: Central Beds
Posts: 67

2005 Discovery 3 4.4 V8 HSE Auto Santorini Black

Loose spare wheel

Chap followed me into a car park and told me that my spare was dangling ...

I've wound it back up again - question is, has someone tried to nick it (I thought they'd just cut the cable?) or do they wind themselves down over time?

It's an MY16 with ad blue and a full size spare if that makes a difference

Now it is wound up fully, I can't actually remember seeing it that high before, but my memory might be failing! 2003 Discovery 2 V8 GS
2005 Discovery 3 V8 HSE
2022 Mercedes-Benz EQB 300 AMG-Line

3rd Feb 2017 7:43 pm

peteyd

Member Since: 08 Mar 2016
Location: South Bucks
Posts: 551

2016 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 Graphite LE Auto Loire Blue

I fitted a spare wheel protector the day I got my car last year. I thought I'd wound the winch back up afterwards, but noticed it dangling a few days later. Wound it up some more and again found it dangling a few days later. Neither time was serious, maybe half and inch. Has stayed secure since. Maybe the dealer didn't quite wind it up properly?

And get a spare wheel protector before you regret not doing it. MY16 D4 Graphite in Loire Blue

3rd Feb 2017 7:47 pm

Oxford-boy

Member Since: 07 Sep 2015
Location: Oxford
Posts: 1063

2014 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 XXV LE Auto Causeway Grey

..one reason it may have 'dangled' is that someone has indeed tried to steal it - by winding the wheel so that the cable starts to unravel. Apparently if you do not winch your wheel tight enough to the underside of the vehicle and it can be moved about, even slightly then a thief can 'unwind' the cable (which is after all many strands of metal twisted together) and thus the wheel which eventually will snap the cable or loosen it enough to free the wheel whether there's a protector there or not.

Learnt that today, thankfully not the hard way.

Get a protector and ensure your wheel is tight to the underside of the car.

3rd Feb 2017 9:39 pm

galwaygreen

Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525

2016 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 Graphite LE Auto Loire Blue

the adblue one on ours does jam sometimes and has to be wriggled to get it to the top..if it jams part
way up and you think that's it and then it unjams down the road that could easily happen

3rd Feb 2017 10:06 pm

DrRobH

Member Since: 10 Oct 2015
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 924

Just fit an RLD wheel protector

Visitor from fullfatrr.com
RR Vogue SE 2011 4.4 TDV8
1974 Lightweight

Last edited by DrRobH on 4th Feb 2017 9:56 am. Edited 1 time in total

3rd Feb 2017 10:13 pm

Dannyson

Member Since: 15 Oct 2014
Location: Newquay, Cornwall
Posts: 820

When I fitted my wheel protector a couple of months or so ago I remembered the comments made before about the wheel dropping shortly after fitting by another forum member.

I can see how this can happen as when I wound it back up I carefully watched the winch cable join and it snagged a number of times in the housing.

So - after winding and adjusting the winch cable join in the process to ensure it slides up where its meant to go its been fine since! - no after fit adjustment has been necessary

2016MY Discovery HSE - Black
2009MY Toyota Land Cruiser (Lc4) - Black

4th Feb 2017 12:00 am

galwaygreen

Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
Posts: 6525

silly question...have you got the wheel face side down...if its adblue car

4th Feb 2017 10:15 pm

blackdog1

Member Since: 11 Dec 2015
Location: Staffordshire, but can be anywhere in Europe.
Posts: 296

2016 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 SE Tech Auto Corris Grey

Place to fit a spare wheel.

4th Feb 2017 10:49 pm

adeal3

Member Since: 15 Nov 2008
Location: orpington
Posts: 188

2016 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 Graphite LE Auto Corris Grey

I'm glad I read this as mine was slightly loose. pretty sure the wheel was tight when i fitted my RLD.

7th Feb 2017 7:51 pm

marsie

Member Since: 28 Feb 2010
Location: Sheffieldish
Posts: 1804

2013 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 XS Auto Firenze Red

Am paranoid i am going to get this problem. A couple of weeks ago i swapped all my wheels and dropped the spare. When it came to raising i back up i spent around 10 mins winding the nut to find the spare had lifted about an inch from the ground and wouldn't lift anymore. the only way i could get it to winch up was to take the weight of the wheel then wind it a bit and keep doing that until it was fully raised. There is no obvious damage to the cable or winch so I guess there is some sort of clutch mechanism in the winch that stops it overtighteneing and i think mine is slipping??

Everytime i go out to the car i kick the spare to see if its come loose but it has stayed put upto now

but i think i am going to have to get a new winch Previous Discos
1989 200tdi 3dr
1994 300tdi ES
1995 3.9 ES (x3)
2000 4.0 adventurer
2001 4.0 ES
2005 D3 HSE (zambesi silver)
2007 D3 SE (Lugano teal)
2011 D4 XS (Baltic Blue)
2008 D3 HSE PREMIUM (buckingham blue)
2009 D4 XS (Nara bronze)
2006 D3 Metropolis (Java Black)
2012my D4 HSE (indus silver)
Current 2013 D4 XS (Firenze red)

8th Feb 2017 10:35 pm

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