Check it now before you need to change a tire. If it is stuck, cut the cable to release the spare. Replace the hoist assembly with a new part. The replacement parts have a modified design which eliminates the spring catch.

let's put the spare under the car...it wont rust or anything...thank you for your time and info! gonna try this now!

I have a vehicle with same design and it was all rusted on spring and bow tie part. With a flat tire, I'm under the vehicle off side of interstate trying to get that darn donut loose and a patrol officer shines a flashlight and says "Whats going on". He was spinning the crossbar on the bolt under the carpet in the hatchback area and at some point it just spins freely and the tire does not lower enough to get the tire out. He says we are not equipped with tools to help in this scenario and I say thanks for your help , I'll call AAA. Sucks when you have to get a tow because you cant get a donut tire out in the midwest rust belt. No bonus points for engineers that designed this with no thought of the midwest and salty roads.

@roadsideguy5902

8 ай бұрын

Stupid ass engineers!

Besides the parrots in the background good video.

@roadsideguy5902

2 жыл бұрын

I bring parrots everywhere. To me life just isn't the same without a ton of parrots making noise as I make a video. I wish Hollowood would give me my studio back.

It's a good idea to lubricate all moving parts

There's a secondary latch that usually rusts open and gets stuck. It needs to be squeezed to release

The hoist is designed with a spring loaded lock to keep the spare wheel from falling out while driving ' you need to brace the wheel to stop it from coming down and only the centre cable and u holder should come down far enough for you to press the spring lock to disengage

@roadsideguy5902

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but this one had a seized cable.

I am having the same problem on my 1500, they filled my spare to 65lbs so it would be ready if i need it going to lower it and try that no way i can reach in to try what you did, what a pain ...

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As a Buick Rendezvous owner living in the Midwest, I would say the underneath spare tire is a silly design. An interior access wheel well would have been so much better and more practical.

Guess I'm the only person to notice that you only tightened 5 of the 6 lug nuts. Hope you caught it b4 they left.

@roadsideguy5902

Жыл бұрын

Maybe it didn't make the edits. I sometimes snip stuff out or maybe I did forget.

might just be holding it against the floor of the bed with the extra air pressure?

@roadsideguy5902

5 ай бұрын

Most likely. Pain in the butt. Bad design.

Sawzall works best, F the rest

Pinch and push up! Works every-time. Were are you south of the border?

@roadsideguy5902

Жыл бұрын

Florida

Someone over tightened it when they put it back up from the last time, I have a traverse it easily drops down every time I’ve taken it down

You can usually get to the secondary lock by removing the license plate on trucks. There's a sort of tube inside with levers that spread out and hold the wheel up. If you can see the mechanism through the license plate opening in the bumper you're golden. Release the cable, and use a pipe or extension to push in the secondary locks. It's a fiddly little bitch for sure. The secondary lock is there because GM knows the stupid cable is garbage. I haven't found a better solution than replacing the winch assembly and just packing it full of grease. The idea is that if the cable breaks, the secondary lock prevents the spare from becoming a deadly highway hazard. Truly the most poorly conceived spare tire system ever, like Soviet East German level thinking makes this look like banging two rocks together, and they just have been sticking with it for reasons. Probably there are huge government regulations and red tape, and GM has had a better design in the pipe for years, and some asshole bureaucracy has it in line after shit from the Model T. Search up some spare videos from Suburbans and Tahoes and Silverados to see all kinds of solutions. For my Tahoe I'm thinking on making a swing arm like the old full size Bronco. At least your rust is visible that way. You could probably use like a 1.5" hole saw right in the middle of the license plate space and look right at this bastard secondary lock. All GM I acquire, this in the first 10 things I do. Thanks for your video OP and best of luck to anyone reading this. GM all the piddly shit breaks but the gasser engines and transmissions are, on average, besting comparable domestic trucks for a few generations. Obviously the diesels have their own scoreboards. The imports have their own problems like poor quality steel and obscure parts. I guess my point is that while you're under there raining dust and debris in your face, take a moment to appreciate the rear main seal or some other catastrophic failure on your engine lasting 250k miles or whatever with your heavy foot on the accelerator. Learn those little annoyances like blend door actuators and instrument cluster stepper motors and just whack em out. Edit: just had a challenging experience with an SRX. Sunovabich, this is very technical if the cable won't drop. I burned through all my cutting tools on hand. Going to be bringing an electric angle grinder to the party with 10 spare blades. 6 DeWalt 40v batteries drained for 5% progress with improper cutting wheels and blades. Don't even start this task if you can't cut strong steel parts in bushings that only make the chatter longer. My goodness this is a nasty bitch if it is locked up. The included lug wrench is hilariously shitty, the jack compartment gets wet over and over so it's gonna be a completely seized rust lump when you dig it out. Just gank all that shitty tooling and polish off the jack with a stiff wire brush, douse it in lubricant and gun oil, and sign up for AAA. Do you think you have what it takes to remove a donut from stowage on a GM? Well NASA wants an interview.

That whole mess was a bad idea from the start..first thing I do when I get one is remove that tire and strap it to the damn roof.

Stupid design underneath. Jeeps also have a problem with the steel cable binding up when rotating a total pain in the ass. I just throw my spare in the back tailgate area

@bluewater454

Жыл бұрын

Buicks are designed stupidly in general.