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I recently took the spare tire cover off to check the tire pressure. It took me 15 minutes to get it off and a half hour (more) to put it back on... mostly.... I never did get it completely back on. I can't budge it now.
I have a 2006 with the elastic spare tire cover, and now that the car is pushing 10 years old, that old elastic is stiff as a board. When I was trying to put it back on, I found myself literally hanging from the cover by my finger tips and the elastic still would not stretch. I do not know how to put more oomph onto it than what I weigh (which isn't all that much), so I am stuck. It was pretty comical in retrospect, that old guy hanging from his spare tire cursing at it. It didn't seem funny at the time.
Does anybody else have this problem, or is it just me?
I have considered just taking the cover off and driving with the wheel naked, but then the spare tire will be exposed to the weather, and I park all day down at the train station. I'm not sure it would still be there when I got back in the evening.
Love the Rav; hate the spare tire cover.
Thanks for any suggestions.
I have a 2006 with the elastic spare tire cover, and now that the car is pushing 10 years old, that old elastic is stiff as a board. When I was trying to put it back on, I found myself literally hanging from the cover by my finger tips and the elastic still would not stretch. I do not know how to put more oomph onto it than what I weigh (which isn't all that much), so I am stuck. It was pretty comical in retrospect, that old guy hanging from his spare tire cursing at it. It didn't seem funny at the time.
Does anybody else have this problem, or is it just me?
I have considered just taking the cover off and driving with the wheel naked, but then the spare tire will be exposed to the weather, and I park all day down at the train station. I'm not sure it would still be there when I got back in the evening.
Love the Rav; hate the spare tire cover.
Thanks for any suggestions.