Hi to everyone, as the login name suggests it's my first Eriba ownership and my first post, so please go easy on me !

I've read through some posts, but thought I would maybe get the "latest thinking" or tried and trusted thinking is also fine

My Familia 320 GT is fitted with a mover and as such I'm told the spare wheel carrier probably won't fit so at the moment it's carried in the car (or van I suppose) but with everything else needed to be taken, it's a right pain.

Question 1 - (a) Has anybody fitted a universal carrier underneath (i.e. drilled / screwed / bolted into the underside of the floor)? (b) If so, how thick is the floor without coming "inside" the van with the screws / bolts?
Question 2 - (a) Has anybody "modified" the Eriba carrier, to make it fit with the mover in situ?

I have another question that seems to get people going, regarding rear mount bike racks - so I'll test the water with that one in a new post.

I am / have been a member of other Forum's, so I'd be amazed if this hasn't been tackled before All help and advice greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt.

I managed to modify my spare wheel carrier to miss the motor mover articulating bar, its quite easy to do just don't over cook the bend. See the attached photo/link which explains..

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A universal wheel carrier won't fit because the Eriba chassis is not a standard ALKO/BPW caravan chassis, it uses a heavy duty ALKO/BPW trailer 'T' chassis.

Hi Matt and
Tom & Margaret

Many thanks for the welcome(s)

Slight change of subject, but with our Puck l the spare wheel is inside under one of the lockers and of course takes space. Wondering if there is a mod to mount it outside the van, say on the rear like a cycle carrier. When we had a T2 VW it was on the front under a self designed cover and looked cool as they say.

Hi Derek these rear wheel carriers appear to be quite rare, I wonder if they were an official Hymer accessory at some point. The Puck L is a bit unique in the Eriba models as it has the kitchen at the back, I would assume attaching anything heavy to the back could induce instability if your not particularly careful with the loading.

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Quote: eribaMotters wrote in post #9

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- cheap option, a clear ikea zip bag for the wheel and put it in that big boot of your CMax - this is how we carried a spare car wheel when we had a VW Touran

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Hi Matt, us newbies so full of questions super helpful group in here, so I'm guessing you will get all your queries answered in no time!

Martina.

Thanks. Good point about the rear weight, always got to watch that! The car has it's own spare in the boot, but yes the van spare would be OK in there. we'll see.

I have the rear wheel carrier on the back of my 430, have not noticed any instability whatsoever, fully laden with motor mover comes in at 1110 kg nose weight at 65 kg.

No, we have a proper full spare Roger, thankfully when we had the flat in the middle of remotest Cornwall, earlier this year.