MG5 Spare wheel kit

[Les burrows]

Have you been looking for a full size spare for you MG5 LR? If you put the boot floor on the upper level then a full size should fit ok.

Yeh I believe it does.
Les

 

[Beekeeper]

I was thinking of raising the floor anyway as shown in another thread. This would get rid of the lip to make it easier for my dog, a retriever, to jump in. Not sure how the floor raising works. Should have looked at dealers. Has anyone else fitted full sized spare. Have they used a steel or alloy wheel. Stella would need different bolts, but not a problem. Thanks for information, Ken

 

[Jomarkh]

I was thinking of raising the floor anyway as shown in another thread. This would get rid of the lip to make it easier for my dog, a retriever, to jump in. Not sure how the floor raising works. Should have looked at dealers. Has anyone else fitted full sized spare. Have they used a steel or alloy wheel. Stella would need different bolts, but not a problem. Thanks for information, Ken

Your LR should have a two level boot floor but I am not sure it it goes level with the boot lip.

 

[Lguk]

Your LR should have a two level boot floor but I am not sure it it goes level with the boot lip.

It doesn't come up flat. Still a couple of inches difference.

Edit: hate when people are vague, so I just went and measured. In the lowest position, it's an 8" drop. The lip the floor sits on in the higher position is 3" higher, so there is still a 5" drop.

As an estate, there's no real reason they couldn't have made the boot 5" longer and raised the floor 3" and made it completely flush. However I believe the Roewe i5 was originally designed as a Saloon so the deep recess was to give more space.

 

[Ian MG5]

Hi
A full size spare wheel fits in the Mg5 LR with the boot floor in its highest position no problem
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[Beekeeper]

Thanks for all the info. This forums magic. Ian, what wheel is that . Is it matching OEM or aftermarket. Not that it matters as a spare I suppose.

 

[Beekeeper]

Thanks for your measurements LGuk. Maybe I could raise the floor say another 4 inches or so with either some structural foam or with a ply box structure to leave a void underneath for storage. Not desperate at present as car not likely to be here till end of year but can sort out a wheel and tyre before then. Would hate to travel without a spare. The first thing I do when I get a car is remove every wheel and refit , greased and tightened to correct torque.

 

[Lovemyev]

The first thing I do when I get a car is remove every wheel and refit , greased and tightened to correct torque.

Very wise move !.

 

[Ian MG5]

Thanks for all the info. This forums magic. Ian, what wheel is that . Is it matching OEM or aftermarket. Not that it matters as a spare I suppose.

Yes it’s an oem wheel
I have aftermarket alloys on my car
I sold 3 and kept 1 for a spare

 

[Beekeeper]

Ian, I see you have 205/50/16 tyre on spare instead of 205/60/16 . Was that to make overall diameter less for fitting in recess or just what you had anyway. Ken

 

[Beekeeper]

Ian , just seen your post elsewhere and it answers my previous question. Thanks

 

[Jonhklee]

Pardon our interruption...

Anyone bought this kit on eBay?

 

[Silver estate]

Pardon our interruption...

Anyone bought this kit on eBay?

I looked at that last night , and decided against it as no foam to stop Jack an brace from moving
I brought the genuine one
Genuine MG5 Spare Wheel Kit OE 10959444 | eBay

 

[Ian MG5]

Hi all
Just a quick thing to note
Ask or find out how high the jack goes as I have a standard scissor jack that doesn’t lift the mg5 high enough so I found out that the 5 ton Jack I had in the shed does the job
REMEMBER THE MG5 HAS A FAIRLY HIGH GROUND CLEARANCE
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[Rmannan]

MG5 EV Spare Wheel Kit Genuine with tools | eBay

MG5 EV Spare Wheel Kit Genuine with tools

www.ebay.co.uk

Just bought off this seller for £205 all in. He has plenty

 

[szymon]

I bought a space saver wheel off eBay that was advertised as being for the MG5. I checked with him that it was suitable for the facelift trophy with 17” wheels and he confirmed that it was. The wheel looked good - 31/2Jx16 ET25,5 H2 seems to be the right fit despite it actually being a VW wheel - however it came with a 125/70R16 tyre.

I did some quick calculations and this is clearly the wrong size — the diameter is over 10% smaller than my normal wheels. I’d maybe use it to go slowly for a couple of miles to a tyre shop in extremis, but not if I was out in the Scottish Highlands 100 miles away from help! Here’s a comparison:

Obviously thinner is just fine and the rim size difference is irrelevant but the diameter just isn’t acceptable to me.

I got in touch with the seller and explained, and they were perfectly happy to either take it for a refund or to put on a new tyre. I popped back yesterday and they swapped it out for a 125/90R16, which is a much better match:

2.4% smaller is much more reasonable imho, and I believe it matches the OEM space saver spare — can anyone please confirm? I’ve bought a set of rounded bolts to go with the wheel (in a bag marked only for the spare wheel) and I’m now a lot more comfortable knowing that I have a decent spare to keep me going if necessary.

The seller was rosparewheels on eBay, based in Enfield, would definitely buy from them again.

-simon

 

[BugEyed]

Glad to hear that you got it sorted. An honest seller too.

 

[Rhodrich]

Just thought I'd dredge up this thread in case anyone else was looking. Have recently bought a Mercedes A Class space saver wheel from eBay for £10, which fits in the spare wheel well in my 2021 LR pre facelift, and I can confirm that the jack/wheel brace/foam and even the towing eye from an MG6 work fine with an MG5, and the foam insert fits within the spare wheel, with the boot floor on its low level. Everything looks like it's a factory fit.
Full foam insert and kit was £30, and I bought some Mercedes wheel bolts for £5, so all in, it's cost me under £50.

 

[Bzz42]

My solution : MG 5 : le premier break électrique en 2021

Spare Wheel Audi A4 125/70R19.

 

[Alibro]

My last car was a Merc C Class that came with a spare set of wheels when I bought it, the tyres were not new but still had a few miles on them.
I traded the car in for my MG5 PFL LR so I happened to have a spare set of wheels. Turns out the full size Merc wheel fits in the wheel well with the floor in the raised position. A jack from an old Landrover Freelander with a spare breaker bar and socket and I'm sorted.
I'm on the lookout for a space saver in my area so I can lower the boot floor but for now it will do.
As for panicking over whether the wheel is OEM or if the spiggot is perfect, I'm not going there. Space savers are an emergency get you home slowly measure that will be used once in a blue moon if ever.