Ur-Q spare tires...

[audidudi@mindspring.com (Jeffrey J. Goggin)]

>The ur-quattro, in standard form, is even sillier.  It has a 'digestive 
>biscuit' emergency spare - "to save room in the boot".  Oh, yeah?  What
happens 
>if you exploit this extra boot space and then have a puncture?
>
>You either have to drive home with the dead wheel on the front seat
passenger's 
>lap, or discard the 14-spoke Ronal ($480) at the side of the road.

It gets worse: If you have the U.S. version with the big bumper boxes in the
"boot," you'll find it's nearly impossible to remove the spare while it's
fully inflated!  In my case, it kept getting wedged in between the sunroof
panel bracket up top, the bumper box below and the 23.8 gallon fuel tank
alongside ... In the end, I had to let some of the air out in order to
wrestle it through the gap!  
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