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Mon Jun 23, 2025 6:01 am

Anybody know what color was original spare tire holder was on 85 Westfalia?
thanks

Mon Jun 23, 2025 7:27 am

Ummm…galvanized, I guess? Borrowed from CrookedDesigner:

What color is yours now? Are you restoring to showroom stock? Just curious.

- Dave

Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:37 am

Ours appears to be galvanized covered with black undercoat.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:52 am

I don't think it's galvanized.
Galvanizing is kind've a soft fragile coating, that would get badly chipped and gouged in it's location...
I think it's a high iron content stainless.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:06 am

Mine appears to be bare metal. Not sure what it looked like new, but I don't think it was coated to be a specific color.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:24 am

Red Ryder wrote: covered with black undercoat.

Same. Although half of it has disappeared at this point.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 10:58 am

This is mine now. I woud like to make it a little nicer.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:01 am

Sand blast it and then spray on bed liner.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:13 am

This what looks like after cleaning it up. some type of galvanized.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:02 pm

Nice work on the cleanup!

Put a smiley face on it so the van is smiling at you whenever you're under the van.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:09 pm

Looks good to me…(looked fine before though, too).

:wink:

- Dave

Mon Jun 30, 2025 11:10 am

Lokks like now

Mon Jun 30, 2025 11:22 am

Love dat bling…

:wink:

- Dave

Mon Jun 30, 2025 2:45 pm

I'm surprised that nobody responded to my message in the other thread, but doesn't this seem like a reasonable idea for getting more space under there?

My 185/75r14 fit, but this 195/75r14 is too wide. If I take the top bars of there's lot of room, but I don't really want the tire bouncing around, so putting them back in (in new holes) should relieve some pressure... Has anyone tried this?