CE Smith Spare Tire Carrier - Locking - Steel - 4-Lug and 5-Lug Wheels - 8-3/4"

Video Transcript for CE Smith Spare Tire Carrier CE27202 Review

Today we're taking a look at the CE Smith's Spare Tire Carrier with Lock. This U-Bolt style carrier provides a mounting point for your trailer spare tire. It installs on your trailer's frame, tongue, or rails, and it has the lockable brackets that deter theft of your spare tire when used in conjunction with the included Master Lock. It comes with the padlock. It comes with a couple keys. That way you can have one for use and then maybe have a spare.But basically, the U-bolt clamps around your trailer frame, and then you would insert the ends through the bolt holes of your spare's wheel.

The brackets right here thread onto the threaded portion of the U-bolt, and snug up against the wheel to hold it in place. The brackets come together. You install the padlock, and that locks the brackets together so they can't be removed from the U-bolt.We're looking at a zinc-plated steel construction. It's very strong, durable, sturdy and rust and corrosion resistant. The part's made in the USA.

I'm just going to go ahead and disassemble it real quick just to show you how easy it is. These are just threaded on so they easily install and remove. But again, these are a really great feature. It's going to be how you hold the wheel securely onto the U-bolt and how you lock it to prevent it from being stolen.This is designed to fit trailer frames up to three inches wide. We can tell that by taking a measurement, inside edge to inside edge right here.

That space is about three inches. It fits wheel sizes, most eight-inch to 15-inch wheels with a four lug or five lug pattern. Total length, very back to very front, is around 8 3/4 inches long, and then the bolt diameter, that's the threaded portion here, at 7/16 of an inch. And those posts as it sits right here, they're separated on center by about 4 3/16 to 4 1/4 inches. And you do have a little bit of flexibility with that as well.That's going to do it for today's look at the CE Smith Spare Tire Carrier with Lock..