Spare Tire Carrier for Pick Up Trucks-Free Shipping

Super simple and super secure. Works great and holds my tire in place.

This is a 33x11.5” tire in a GM truck bed. By standing up the tire, you barely use any space, especially the space right up front on the side. Install was simple and typical padlock fit in the rod hole. No drilling. Looks incredible when you have a full-size matching spare and nice wheels. Very unique look that reminds me of the 1960s/70s Jeep pickups. On a long bed, you could put this behind the wheel well. If you absolutely need access to the front floor corner clear for a dirt bike tie down point, make sure you set it up with enough clearance.Update: After a week or so of use, I can still say it works great. For a 100lb wheel+tire, you need to make sure it’s on there tight. Re-check after installing every day. Also demoting to 4 stars because $75 is crazy for what probably costs $5 in materials and labor time.

not happy poor fit and cheap

I installed this in a 2003 F-150 with a 6.5 ft bed. Shipping, as noted by others is very fast and mine also arrived a week early. In the product pictures, the threaded rod which sets the retaining tension is bare metal, mine was powder coated black. Seems to be an improvement over earlier versions.Nice touch, it prevents rust and looks better. I'm picking up a rattle can of black paint to coat the tire holding rod though.As noted by other reviewers there is insufficient space to install this forward of the wheel well. Better to install it behind the wheel well anyway because if you do need to remove the spare you won't have to climb up into the bed. The carrier went in easily in just a couple minutes. I have a plastic bed liner which is ribbed and as I raised the support bar to the top rail the base of the carrier started to bend. I cut a small section of 1 X 3 wood strapping to fit under the base of the carrier to level it with the bed liner. After doing this I was able to successfully complete the installation of the tire carrier.The carrier is held in place by the tension of the upright threaded arm, just make sure you have this extended enough to hold the assembly in place without deforming the bed sidewall. My spare is a full size 255X70 on a 16" rim and the threaded rod which holds the tire to the carrier has about 3" left over after tightening the lug nut. If you don't want to use a wrench to remove your spare tire you can find a large wingnut at most any hardware store for a buck or two.The only thing I didn't like was having to use a padlock with a 3/16ths shackle as the standard 1/4" shackle will not fit. Note: If you drill the bolt out to accept a larger padlock there won't be enough "meat" left on the bolt to securely hold the lock. Better to run about 3.5 ft of chain through the factory bed mounted tie down and center hole on the spare and use a better padlock.I did take the truck down a bumpy class VI road to see if the carrier would work loose and it held. Still I think I'm going to drill the top and bottom plates for at lease one 1/4" nut and bolt each.Just to be sure. ;)

Not an easy install in my 2011 Tundra. Not worth the $75, in my opinion. To securely hold a tire it requires bolting in place, or some thief could manage to take tire with bracket attached. Also, my tire fell into the bed, bracket attached, while off-road. I bent the top bracket in a vice, in attempt to get a secure fit, or I would have sent it back to Amazon.I currently secured my tire behind the wheel well with a 1" ratchet strap, and locked it with a cable lock. Still secure after some rough off roading while hunting.

A little pricey for what it is. You could fab one if you had a welder and a few tools. Kinda wish I would have just done that myself, but I needed something to hold my 35in spare quick, and I wasn't near my shop. Other then the price being steep, its a nice product. It holds my 35 in tire in place nice and firm, and I'm bouncing around off road a lot and it hasn't worked itself loose. For a really tight fit, I put a small piece of 2x4 behind the tire on the bed, so when you tighten it, it has another contact point. It should be four stars, but really..... 75.00 bucks for 5 bucks worth of steel?

Great for carrying a spare tire out of the way of bed cargo, especially under a camper shell. Stays tight while driving the horrible roads of Atlanta.

Works great to hold my spare tire for my 2015 Chevy Silverado. I put some blue thread locker on the nut holding the tire to prevent it from loosing up. Works great to slide a padlock into the hole drilled to prevent theft. Much easier to change tire in Winter then dropping from under the truck in snow. Fits great between wheel well and the tailgate for the 17" spare that came standard.