Is there enough clearance between bike and door if your vehicle has the spare tire case?
1530049
I would say yes. But thereafter, you will not me able to place a bike on the inside rack. There won't be room with the trunk tire and all. One bike only.
1530050
What kind of vehicle? If it's a Suzuki, we can get the rack on plus both bikes. It took a little trial and error to figure out how it was going to work but it's easy getting them on and off now. If you are talking about the Suzuki with the hard case - I couldn't say. We just have a cover over ours.
1530051
I agree with the previous answer. You will probably be able to get the rack on the car (although I would contact the manufacture and get accurate dimensions/length of the bar) but you would definitely only be able to put one bike on.
80573
Mine is on a Subaru Outback and there is room to open the back without using the "lowering" feature of the transporter (which, by the way, is a pain to use if the transporter has any sort of load in it). My guess is "probably" if everything stock. It will depend on a) the size (width) of your spare and how far it protrudes past the bumper and b) how your hitch is mounted and how far it protrudes (even with the bumper, recessed).
1660047
I don't have a rav 4, but I have a jeep wrangler with a spare mounted outside like the rav 4. The rack fits and clears the spare tire, but I can't open the rear door all the way. My tailgate swings out an I must remove the bikes and rack to completely open the door.
1431123
I'm concerned there may not be enough clearance between the top tune and the chain...
559633
Probably not. I took my spare off to allow bikes, but depending on the bikes, length of bumper and your creativity, it might work.
916464
I would guess no. There's not a whole lot of room there. The tire carrier is about flush with the rubber stops on the tailgate.
1731229
Yes there is a space for the spare tire. Its under the styrofoam insert in the back of the car. You will have to remove the styrofoam insert as well as the silly little bottle of fix a flat too. I put my spare tire in and kept the silly little fix a flat bottle in the upper styrofoam insert. Its a good investment as the fix a flat bottle will only get you out of a jam if you have a punctured tire. I strongly suggest buying the spare !!!
652171
I could certainly go home and measure the opening ... but as it stands now -- I have two bikes in this rack and one is a mountain bike with big tires .. not sure of width but can check if you need exact dimension. Other thought -- while this is a really well built unit .. no reason you likely couldn't spread the "bars" a bit to get the exact fit you need.
1970287
I use an extension with mine, my cx-9 doesn´t have a spare tire, however, with that extension I can open the door with the bike in the rack, the distance between the rack and the entrance of the hitch is 9", with that information, just check which is the distance extra that you need and find the right extension, just be aware that using an extension lowers the weight limit by a half, I mean, for example, if the rack has 100 lb of weight limit, with an extension the new limit will be 50 lb, I hope that this answer helps
1970289
I use an extension with mine, my cx-9 doesnt have a spare tire, however, with that extension I can open the door with the bike in the rack, the distance between the rack and the entrance of the hitch is 9", with that information, just check which is the distance extra that you need and find the right extension, just be aware that using an extension lowers the weight limit by a half, I mean, for example, if the rack has 100 lb of weight limit, with an extension the new limit will be 50 lb, I hope that this answer helps
605666
Yes it should work, it puts a load on the door but so does your spare so should be able to sustain the pressure. The rack has an adjustment to re- centre the bike so that it does not hang out the passenger side so much.
315397
Mine is the same size. It fits it snug, but still allows enough room to overlap on the rear spare tire and from LP tank if needed.
1834249
Attn Solo,I think the rack will miss the spare tyre however I think you will not get a bike in the carrier closiet to the back of the car.
868570
My guess is no. Just looking at your bike it seems the rack isn't deep enough to stay off the tire at a functional angle.
170445
If it is a normal trailer bumper then it will not interfere. I use the spare tire as an extra point to tie the bikes off to keep them on the rack.
435551
No,it is just far enough away,I keep a cooler on that side of the basket 90% of the time and it is just fine,(on my Honda Foreman it is about 6 to 8 inches )The basket deflects a lot of it,I have put about 400 miles on my 4 wheeler since install and all is good.
531914
There is a very slight gap between my doors. If you adjust the hinges you can get it to where it is not noticed.