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Spare Tire in B5 Avant - does a full size fit or are the wells build only for doughnuts?

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Old 07-15-2005, 09:39 AM
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Default Spare Tire in B5 Avant - does a full size fit or are the wells build only for doughnuts?

Question about the spare tire in the B5 avants. I understand that they all come with doughnuts, but will a full size fit in the well properly? I just realized that mine is a crappy little doughnut and want to get a full-sized. Appreciate any light that can be shed.

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Old 07-15-2005, 09:43 AM
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IIRC a full size spare will fit in the Avant.
Old 07-15-2005, 09:56 AM
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Default Full size will fit, you'll need to trim the plastic peice that

mounts to the back of the load floor tho...
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Floor kinda raises an inch or so with the FS. Mine was a 98.5 A4 fwiw.
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i think daphne did a slight mod to her avant ot make it fit. STFA
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Default i tried trimming the plastic and still need to remove it to get the spare in/out

need to revisit that.

do you have a picture of how much you cut? i removed all of the horizontal section in the center part. did you trim some of the vertical plastic too?
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Default I have to take the trim out as well to get the spare

in and out. But without trimming it, you can't fit the full size spare at all...
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