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Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:04 am

Hi!
See that guy on Instagram (Camper_Kombi) with that amazing rear tire mount. Try to contact-him to purchase one but no response...

Do you know where we can buy-it?

Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:53 am

It looks cool to me also plus it swings away.
The bus has plates from Brazil so that might be the source.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:41 am

the hassle will be that it has to be moved to even check the oil level every time you fill up with gas. I would not want it for that reason.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 1:09 pm

@camper_kombi is in Sao Paolo Brazil. I also sent him a message. It is likely that his first language is Portuguese. His Insta account has pictures of a number of metal creations besides the spare tire carrier.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 1:55 pm

A few friends of mine send-him messages, but no responses... It seems he don't want to sell outside of Brasil..

Sat Aug 30, 2025 2:09 pm

wait until the first time you swing it out of the way, open the engine lid, check the oil and find out the bus was on a slight angle, your wife, the kids, or the wind blew it back just enough to rack you skull on it or tear your favorite traveling shirt. I'd rather see you ruin the nose of your bus over 100,000 miles than crack your skull, or stop checking the oil because it was too much a hassle so you blew the engine up.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 3:04 pm

Lahucheapin wrote: A few friends of mine send-him messages, but no responses... It seems he don't want to sell outside of Brasil..

With the current tariff situation, I don’t blame him. At one point Brazil was looking at 50% tariffs.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:01 pm

SGKent wrote: wait until the first time you swing it out of the way, open the engine lid, check the oil and find out the bus was on a slight angle, your wife, the kids, or the wind blew it back just enough to rack you skull on it or tear your favorite traveling shirt. I'd rather see you ruin the nose of your bus over 100,000 miles than crack your skull, or stop checking the oil because it was too much a hassle so you blew the engine up.

Well, so i assume that you'll don't buy it too?..

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:13 pm

Lahucheapin wrote: SGKent wrote: wait until the first time you swing it out of the way, open the engine lid, check the oil and find out the bus was on a slight angle, your wife, the kids, or the wind blew it back just enough to rack you skull on it or tear your favorite traveling shirt. I'd rather see you ruin the nose of your bus over 100,000 miles than crack your skull, or stop checking the oil because it was too much a hassle so you blew the engine up.

Well, so i assume that you'll don't buy it too?..

Just guessing that French is your primary language. Good for you. I always wanted to learn it. My ex-late grandfather in Southern Louisiana spoke a dialect. Their family had been there a long time.

We say (or write) in American English, "Well, so I assume you won't buy one." Or if you grew up in the southern states like I did for many years, "Well, I guess y'all won' t be a getting one, will ya?" Someone else might say, "Reckon y'all won't get one, huh."

Correct. I will not buy one. When you have owned a VW bus for awhile, you will find that the one time you didn't check the oil level when you filled the gas tank, the oil level was low and you got a red light going around a corner when the oil pump sucked air. I have no intentions of moving that thing out of the way ever time I fill the gas tank. I had a tailgate carrier on my Jeep CJ7 and had to move it every time the tail gate was down or the rear window went up. Not bad on a Jeep when you don't need to get in the back often but on a bus it would be a annoying.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:15 pm

or it swing too far open and leaves a tire print in the side of the bus,

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:26 pm

You'll need a pair of those big assed Brazilian mirrors to go with it, it's going to add to the already big blind spot when trying to merge right.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:33 pm

busdaddy wrote: You'll need a pair of those big assed Brazilian mirrors to go with it, it's going to add to the already big blind spot when trying to merge right.
And we have a pair of those “big ass Brazilian mirrors“ on our bus and they are wonderful! I can see things so much better than with stock mirrors.
May not be your style, but for me it works.

Sat Aug 30, 2025 4:37 pm

OB Bus wrote: busdaddy wrote: You'll need a pair of those big assed Brazilian mirrors to go with it, it's going to add to the already big blind spot when trying to merge right.
And we have a pair of those “big ass Brazilian mirrors“ on our bus and they are wonderful! I can see things so much better than with stock mirrors.
May not be your style, but for me it works. that is the trend. We passed a new lifted Ford 250 yesterday. His mirrors had extensions that made him wider than the lane. Used to be it was dangle cattle balls from the tow hitch to say I am macho. Then it was my truck is taller than your truck. Then it was I carry more spare tires than you do or with a bay, my roof rack is cooler than yours. Now I guess it is like the Ford truck, my big ass mirrors are wider than yours..... :lol: :lol: :lol: or in other words, my bus collects more dead flies and bugs on its mirrors than yours does. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:31 pm

BUSted nuts might say I’m the man, or maybe once was depending on your take of busted!
FukkenBUSted!

Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:57 pm

Bnanwel wrote: BUSted nuts might say I’m the man, or maybe once was depending on your take of busted!
FukkenBUSted!

we are all BUSed in some way. I am hooked on my cars being as spotless as they can be, or the engine purring. Cathy had a door lock fail on her today to the front door when she went to get mail. One of our dogs kept barking at the front door. She was outside knocking trying to attention to get back in. So I spent the afternoon fixing the 45 year old lock. I could have just oiled it - no, instead it went in the ultrasonic for cleaning first. So some people have wide mirrors and some people are obsessive fixing things....

SK

Sun Aug 31, 2025 3:27 am

Get your fix on and enjoy, Mr. Kent. I fix for a living, fix in my spare time and come up with my best fixes in my sleep.

Sun Aug 31, 2025 8:05 am

that,s good therapy for you SGKent,you will be stir crazy,if you follow the Dr. orders,and not do any wenching.maybe your wife should break a few small things for you to fix,or at least ponder.
then again it may be too late as far as ,stir crazy goes,
all in jest no harm intended

Sun Aug 31, 2025 12:17 pm

lil-jinx wrote: that,s good therapy for you SGKent,you will be stir crazy,if you follow the Dr. orders,and not do any wenching.maybe your wife should break a few small things for you to fix,or at least ponder.
then again it may be too late as far as ,stir crazy goes,
all in jest no harm intended

that is funny. She broke the front door lock yesterday. I need to trim the orange tree but she won't let me climb the 6' ladder. My gardener has the flu - he was going to do it. The shed needs residing and she won't let me do that either. As to the bus, I have to be satisfied just to start it once a week and listen to it. Soon, very soon I can take it out again.

Thu Sep 04, 2025 8:51 am

Lahucheapin wrote: Hi!
See that guy on Instagram (Camper_Kombi) with that amazing rear tire mount. Try to contact-him to purchase one but no response...

Do you know where we can buy-it?

During the late-1970s, I think some British VW Type 2 Devon or Spacemaker motor-caravan conversions were available with a rear spare-wheel carrier, but I think this was attached to the rear bumper and pivoted downward.