I’ve always thought it was foolish to put them under there but I live in Michigan and have seen how rough it can be on anything hanging under a vehicle.
You would think ford would know better but they put theirs under the bed too.
“You would think ford would know better but they put theirs under the bed too.”
Back when I had my Aerostars they were under the back of the van, and the worst part was the way they were attached:
You accessed the spare by turning a crank that had a steel cable wound around it that lowered the spare. You put the spare back by cranking the cable back up. Nothing but the thin steel cable, under tension held the wheel. Yep, the cable rusted off, of course. I figured that out when I heard a noise and looked in my side mirror to see my spare sliding along in the other lane, headed for the ditch it ended up in. Lucky it didn’t bounce, end up on its tread and roll into somebody.
A dumb design for a vehicle that was used in the winter salt regions.