Spare wheel carrier/bike rack

[Strollerbird]

I have recently found out I need a spare wheel to go to Spain
The clearance of the bottom of my van means I cannot attach it one below. It would seem obvious to me that the best place to attach one is to the bike rack. (Which I use as a bike rack) but cannot find anything like that. Any ideas?

 

[Strollerbird]

It is a Dethleffs Esprit with a Thule lift up bike rack

 

[Strollerbird]

It is an A class
I’m absolutely stumped apart from it rattling around in the garage

 

[Millie Master]

It will be best for your spare tyre/wheel to keep it stored away in the dark..

The best place for your spare will be in the garage, so I would suggest to stop it rattling around:-

a. Thoroughly clean the floor and front/forward wall of your garage and then wipe it over with meths.
b. Cut a couple of pieces of thick (50mm) wood with a 45 degree angled cut.
c. Stand the spare upright to the front/forward upright of the garage wall.
d. Using some Stixall (you can buy it from Screwfix or Toolstation) put a decent thick dollop of this amazing stuff onto the underside of each of the pieces of wood and push them firmly into place (wedge side in) forced up against the tyre.
e. When the Stixall has set (approx. 24 hours), remove the tyre after first marking 2 x vertical lines onto the garage wall.
f. Cut another two square pieces of wood and splodge Screwfix onto them and position them approx. 50mm back from the lines you have marked.
g. When set, screw a hook into each piece of wood.
h. Now re-fit the wheel and then with a suitable length bungee, strap the spare firmly into position.

Job done.................. this is exactly how my spare is stored, nice and safe and in the dark.

 

[eurajohn]

If you have an accessible vertical interior wall in the garage (not exterior) make or get made up a steel plate of approx 150 mm square and 3 to 4 mm thick, with a 4 mm hole at each corner and in the centre have a 15 mm hole with a 12 mm nut welded over it.
Select your most convenient fixing place for the wheel by standing it on floor in your chosen spot and mark through the centre hole of wheel onto the wall.
Uusing Sikaflex or stixall or similar on the fixing face of the plate secure with 4 screws onto panel.
Once the plate is secure in place, stand the wheel over it and measure from the plate to the outside of the centre hole on the wheel, obtain or make a plate big enough to cover centre hole of wheel and drill a 13 mm hole in its centre, using the measurement from plate to wheel outer add the length of nut welded to plate and the thickness of loose plate to go over wheel centre hole, cut a piece of 12 mm studding to length allowing for the extra nut that you will use to secure it in place.

The reason for using Sikaflex etc. as well as screws is that the walls of van will be a flimsy composite panel that screws will not get sufficient purchase on, the glue will give a large (2250 sq mm) surface area of attachment.