has any one modded the spare tire wheel well to fit a full sized spare?

 

A full size spare will fit, you just won't be able to use the particle board cover. You'll just have to put the trunk carpet over the full size spare & the trunk floor will no longer be flat, you'll have a hump. I had a 2001 I30 that came with the factory option full size spare & there was a foam insert between the full size spare & the trunk carpet that was probably there to keep the carpet from sinking into the center of the wheel.

 

if this is true it looks like a cut and splice job..on the spare wells.. if nothin is on the way down there....i'll call it trunk on full "MOD".

 

EXACTLY what i was thinking. get some appropriate gauged metal, and some ballpeen hammers and splice in a small extender to make a it a inch or 3 deeper.

 

Oh it's definitely true, I found a pic of an I30 with a full size spare on cars.com. As you can see the trunk floor isn't flat however with the full size spare it's not raised all that much.

 

that depends how still the groceries will stay. :P i will have to see how much work it would be and if any thing would bottom out or melt.

 

Well i like the full size spare idea despite what the grocery bag do....

 

I had full size spare with 17's and the hump wasn't bad at all. It was barely noticeable. I also have a second layer of carpet over the factory "carpet" so that helped to even it out.

 

^ My old I30 had the 16" full-size spare option, and the trunk was flat. 17"s will raise it just a bit but not much, no big deal.