What is the setting on the magic decoder ring to remove the spare from....

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Jan 28, 2007 | 05:52 AM

UrS4boy

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What is the setting on the magic decoder ring to remove the spare from....

underneath the rear seat in Avant? I obviously am doing something wrong because as far as I have tried, the spare hits the bottom of the third seat and/or gets hung up on the black "volcano" that the spare is mounted to. I know if I remove the seat bottom I can get it out but that doesn't seem to be a user friendly solution, i.e. a wife having to use a 24 mm socket to get at the spare on the side of the road.

TIA (I did search the archives but didn't find what I was looking for)

Jan 28, 2007 | 10:03 AM

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That's the only way to do it.

The only way to get the spare tire out is to remove the 3rd seat. The bolt holding the seat is removed with the lug wrench. It's a bad design, but that's the way it is. Why you would need a 24mm socket is a mystery though. I think you're looking at the wrong bolt.

Jan 28, 2007 | 10:46 AM

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Wow. Bad Injinerin' from Team Doorhandle. D-U-M-B. (Thanks for the info I thought....

I was doing something wrong. At least now I know.

Jan 28, 2007 | 02:26 PM

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I take back some of the above. There is a knurled wheel attached to the bolt to allow removal by ...

hand, once it is started with the lug wrench.

Well, at least in theory. In practise, I had to use a 19 mm wrench to hold the captive nut from turning in order to loosen the knurled bolt. Then it moved by hand.