Spare tire for 2009 Miata

If anyone knows, please tell me where I can purchase a spare tire,
dough nut variety for my 2009 Miata

Jay Graves wrote:
> If anyone knows, please tell me where I can purchase a spare tire, dough
> nut variety for my 2009 Miata

I have had good luck in the past with a wanted to buy ad on the
Miata.net classifieds.

Also, there are often tops for sale that have been removed from a 2006+
MX-5 racing project.
If you can find the seller of one of the tops, the spare wheel from the
same car may be available as well.

Finally, your spare wheel may be compatible with the RX-8 and/or another
5-lug Mazda Car.
That may be worth checking into if a 2006-2009 MX-5 wheel does not turn up.

Good luck!

Pat

In article >,
Jay Graves > wrote:

> If anyone knows, please tell me where I can purchase a spare tire,
> dough nut variety for my 2009 Miata

Try a junkyard. A Mazda3 spare should fit the hub and clear the brakes.

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Lanny Chambers
St. Louis, MO
'94C

pws > wrote:

> Jay Graves wrote:
>> If anyone knows, please tell me where I can purchase a spare
>> tire, dough nut variety for my 2009 Miata
>
> I have had good luck in the past with a wanted to buy ad on the
> Miata.net classifieds.
>
> Also, there are often tops for sale that have been removed from a
> 2006+ MX-5 racing project.
> If you can find the seller of one of the tops, the spare wheel
> from the same car may be available as well.

They don't HAVE a spare, they have a repair kit instead. One more
reason the "C" are on my list of cars I don't want.


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I knew they weren't standard but I figured it was an option you could
choose, yes or no?

Also, I believe PWS is right, RX-8 or Mazda 3 spares should work.

Chris
99BBB

"XS11E" > wrote in message
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> pws > wrote:
>
>> Jay Graves wrote:
>>> If anyone knows, please tell me where I can purchase a spare
>>> tire, dough nut variety for my 2009 Miata
>>
>> I have had good luck in the past with a wanted to buy ad on the
>> Miata.net classifieds.
>>
>> Also, there are often tops for sale that have been removed from a
>> 2006+ MX-5 racing project.
>> If you can find the seller of one of the tops, the spare wheel
>> from the same car may be available as well.
>
> They don't HAVE a spare, they have a repair kit instead. One more
> reason the "C" are on my list of cars I don't want.
>
>
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"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

> I knew they weren't standard but I figured it was an option you
> could choose, yes or no?

I can't find it on Mazda's website so I think it's a NO.

> Also, I believe PWS is right, RX-8 or Mazda 3 spares should work.

I don't know, he probably is but if anybody gets one and it doesn't
fit, send hate mail to Pat, not me, OK? <G>




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XS11E wrote:

> I don't know, he probably is but if anybody gets one and it doesn't
> fit, send hate mail to Pat, not me, OK? <G>


I would take the car and a hydraulic jack with me and see if it fit
before I committed more than $10.00 to the spare wheel purchase.

The spare gets thrown in with the jack if I know I am going to be more
than 50 miles or so from where I can get help from someone who owes a
favor, and there seem to be more of those people every day. :-)

In 10 years, I needed to have a spare tire brought to me one time. Every
other time I was able to air the tire up with my tiny electric
compressor and make it to the shop.

That said, I do want the car to have the ability to have a spare, and I
really like a vehicle to have full-sized spare that gets rotated, but
that is out of the question with a Miata, especially running 16 inch
wheels where I can't fit one even in a completely empty trunk.

I would not have wanted to drive any car from Texas to North Carolina
without it in the trunk.
Way too many stretches of road where a shredded tire would truly ruin
the vacation.

Pat

pws > wrote:

> In 10 years, I needed to have a spare tire brought to me one time.
> Every other time I was able to air the tire up with my tiny
> electric compressor and make it to the shop.

My last 3 flat tires were completely destroyed by crap on the roadway.
One picked up a nail in the sidewall and when the nail was removed the
sidewall blew out, one split open from the center of the tread to the
bead and the third was similar.

These were each a couple of years apart but I wouldn't leave my
driveway w/o a spare! I carry a roadside service plan PLUS a cell
phone but help isn't always in an area with cell coverage.



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