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FrankBullitt   
Sun Oct 02 2016, 08:00am

Member No: #19238
Joined: Apr 12 2011
Location: Cambridgeshire
 When I bought the new car I tried to swap over the insert for the spare wheel well from the old car as the new one doesn't take a spare - sadly, it doesn't fit as the old insert was shaped for a car without the AdBlue tank fitted which takes up about half the well.

Our car, being a DSport, couldn't be ordered with a spare from the factory on account of the space saver not fitting over the larger front discs (the same is true of a DStyle ordered with 19" Cairns wheel or the more recent Prestige); however, Duxford Motor Group put our reg into their system and the part number 9800721280 was spat out as the correct insert. We already had all the parts from our old car (which I'd ordered when we bought it), this is what it all looks like;

The insert for tyre gunk alone;



The shallow well with the handbrake mechanism;



The new insert, quite flimsy;



The insert with the chocks, brace, cap remover and bolt cover remover all fitted;



The wheel fitted;



There is nowhere specific for the jack but it fits quite comfortably behind the wheel - I've wrapped it in a cloth as it sits alongside the metalwork

Hope this is of help to those looking at a spare with a euro 6 Blue model (I assume the 1.6 HDi Blue is the same). Just need to remember to put the spare on the back, and accept that the wheel that comes off will have to fit in the boot.
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 neilp (24 Mar 2017 : 06:26)
neilp   
Fri Mar 24 2017, 06:29am
Member No: #3384
Joined: Apr 21 2008
Location: Bulwell, Nottingham
 I'm looking at this for my 2016 DS4 Prestige petrol. The foam insert fits over the electronic handbrake "box" and takes the space saver in much the same way as you have shown it.
As far as I can tell all the other items (Jack, wheel brace etc) fit in the foam recesses. I too realise if I have a puncture on the front I will have to put the space saver on the rear and the rear Cairn 19" on the front.
gmerry   
Fri Mar 24 2017, 07:31am
Member No: #11625
Joined: Nov 30 2009
Location: aberdeen
 That skinny little spare should never go on the front in any case (braking and steering), so in a way, its a good thing it doesn't fit. I'm assuming you carry a telescopic wheel wrench due to the large number of wheel bolts that have to be undone/tightened?

regards
neilp   
Fri Mar 24 2017, 10:14am
Member No: #3384
Joined: Apr 21 2008
Location: Bulwell, Nottingham
gmerry wrote ...

That skinny little spare should never go on the front in any case (braking and steering), so in a way, its a good thing it doesn't fit. I'm assuming you carry a telescopic wheel wrench due to the large number of wheel bolts that have to be undone/tightened?

regards

I'll have to look at a telescopic wrench, it could come in handy.
FrankBullitt   
Fri Mar 24 2017, 12:45pm

Member No: #19238
Joined: Apr 12 2011
Location: Cambridgeshire
gmerry wrote ...

I'm assuming you carry a telescopic wheel wrench due to the large number of wheel bolts that have to be undone/tightened?

regards


Not me, but then I am beefy enough as it is (in a former life I was a nightclub doorman!)
 

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