'05 Freestar Disaster

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Jun 27, 2005 | 08:56 PM

FireHazard

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'05 Freestar Disaster

I hope I am putting this in the right section, anyway here I go.... My mother bought a brand new freestar and had the stock spare changed out for a full size spare that ford installed under the vechile where there was the stock one was, went traveling across canada and half way in her journey she heard air escaping, went to the nearst dealership and they said and wrote up that a full size spare should have never been installed.... Now she is back home after going the rest of the trip without a spare and now her hitch is in to install, this worries me. First this full size spare should have not been there and now they want to install this hitch with the stock spare, does anyone have any advice? Any comments or concerns would be appriated...

Thanks in advance

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Jun 28, 2005 | 08:36 AM

1956MarkII

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Unless it's some special "low-clearance" design, I'm thinking you can have a hitch under there, or a spare tire, but not both. A nasty side-effect to that "disappearing" 3rd seat, which took up most of the space for the spare. I would DEFINITELY get a look at that hitch BEFORE they install it.

Jun 28, 2005 | 02:45 PM

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Why was it a disaster? Im not trying to sound mean or anything...

Did the full size spare drag the ground or something causing it to leak or what?

I dont know how the Freestar compares to a Windstar, but we have a class III hitch on our '99 Windstar and it has never dragged on anything unless there were 6 or more people in it (and our family is heavy)