Thanks, that seems like a good plan.

Stuart

From: JordanVw@aol.com [mailto:JordanVw@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2014 11:16 AM
To: stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Spare won't fit

In a message dated 11/1/2014 2:02:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM writes:

The door tire pressure sticker
shows both 185 and 205 tires, but it looks like the rods that hold the spare
are too low.

technically speaking the carats and other vans with alloys came with a
slightly different shaped spare tire carrier rods..   you can modify yours
to make it work though.