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The RS America Spare Wheel. |
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Part# 965 362 130 00 |
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The side of the spare wheel that is most rarely seen. |
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Size. |
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Despite one of the major selling points of the RS America being the 17” diameter wheels from the 965 (the correct factory designation for the 964 Turbo), the spare wheel that came stock was only 16” diameter and was only 5 1/2” wide. |
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Usage limitations. |
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On the outside of the wheel is a warning label describing its intended use and providing caution notices. |
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It is obvious that the spare wheel is really intended just to get you to the nearest garage or tire shop - or at the very most to get you home (assuming your puncture occurs near home). |
Where to put it the spare and supplement WKD 964 221 92. |
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The original Page 92 of the owners manual. |
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Interestingly enough, there is an anomaly in the owners manual regarding the instructions for use of the spare wheel. |
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If you look at page 92 of your owners manual, you will see a paragraph stating that the spare must be fitted to the front of the car only. In fact there is a section stating words to the effect that if you have a flat in the rear, you should fit the spare to the front of the car on the side of the car that has the flat, and then replace the rear wheel (which has the flat) with the front rim you just removed to fit the spare. |
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I think I'm pretty sure I know where I would put the spare! |
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I believe Porsche considered this and that this is the reason behind the revision to page 92 of the owners manual. This revision consists of a one page supplement (Part# WKD 964 221 92) inserted into the clear sleeve at the very back of the owners manual - which incidentally, is also where the RS America owners manual supplement was intended to be located. | |
Supplement WKD 964 221 92 which became the revised Page 92 of the owners manual. |
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The owners manual revision basically removes the instruction to fit the spare to the front of the car under all circumstances, and softens the message to say that the car has “improved handling and less wear on the tires” with the spare fitted to the front. |
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NOTE: a few copies of supplement WKD 964 221 92 are now available to registry members [Show me] |
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The later? version of the 964 spare wheel. |
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There is some debate regarding which version of the spare wheel is the later version. |
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The debate arises because both types bear the same part number, but as you can clearly see from above, they are two distinctly differing configurations - i.e. the “spoke” configuration and the hole configuration. If you have data on which was first - please e-mail me. |
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