Landed Gear Rear Door Spare Tire Carrier for Promaster Vans

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The Landed Gear Spare Tire Mount (PATENT PENDING), designed specifically for vehicles based on the Ram Promaster chassis, allows you to locate a spare tire on either rear door.  A large footprint of four (4) attachment points creates a rigid mount for a spare tire, while allowing the rear doors to still fully function and to distribute the load on the Promaster rear doors.  Other hitch or bumper mount attachments may require the mount to be swung out of the way before the door can be opened.  Requires 4 holes to be drilled in the door sheet metal.  Laser-cut, steel construction, TIG welded in San Diego, CA.  Mounting pads are made of hard and soft urethanes to sandwich the mount to the door sheet metal.  Assembly weighs 18 lbs, not including wheel/tire.  The set includes Two M16-1.5 lug bolts and One Locking Lug Bolt for security. Two alignment pins allow resting the wheel on the mount to allow lug bolt attachment. One door check strap and 2 stiffener brackets are included.

If you have any Promaster model with the Parksense sensors, we now carry the lifted mount for both the left and right side doors (see drop down menu for those options)!

FAQ's:

How far out does the spare tire rack extend on the van once mounted?Approximately 11" on the right-side mount and 12.56" on the left side mount with license plate relocator.

Do you offer installation? Yes! If you are in the Tampa, Florida area please email us to schedule an appointment

I would like to have a bike rack in addition to the spare tire mount? Will that work with the Landed Gear spare tire rack?

The spare tire mount works with the Winnebago Travato stock bike racks--Fiamma or Summit bike by installing on the opposite rear door or left-side rear door. You can order that mount on our website in addition to the license plate relocator in order for the license plate to be visible above the spare tire mount.

We have not found a hitch-mounted bike rack that has not worked but please refer to the measurements (see first FAQ) prior to installing or ordering.

Does the right or passenger side spare tire mount interfere with the door handle?

The passenger side spare tire mount was designed to allow the right door handle to fully open. 

How well does this style of tire mount hold up over time? Does the hardware bolt to a frame structure inside the door or only bolts to the metal skin of the door? How is operation of the door affected by adding the tire to the door? Has this style of tire mount been in production for many years? i.e. how well does this design stand the test of time?

We rely on a large spread of mounting pads, each having a large surface area, to sandwich the carrier to the outer door skin.  We do have braces on the lower points that bridge between the inner and outer door skins.  The wheel weighs about 72 lbs.  The mount itself weighs 17 lbs.

We do compare the mount we make to the Summit Bike rack that Winnebago installs on some of the Travato models. They have a similar attachment method, but the cantilever distance with two bikes attached, let’s assume at least 30 lbs each, would have a larger moment than a mounted wheel on our tire carrier.  Our spare tire mount was designed to distribute the load around the full frame.

We have had one installed on our Travato for about 4 years and 65,000 miles with no issues and we have sold over 3000 of these mounts that are on the road with no issues regarding the integrity of the door mount.  The weak point would be if someone backed their van into a wall or object, or a larger truck ran into the spare, which would certainly crush into the door skin.