Roadmaster 195225 Spare Tire Carrier for Motorhomes

This is a great item and hold the spare time in an out of the way spot. It's a little heavy but is quality built

Mounted this carrier on a 2025 Thor Compass 24KB for my spare tire. Motorhome doesn't have any place for a spare so I had to go this route. Unit is heavy weight with a net tongue capacity of 400 Lbs. which will allow me to piggyback mount my 2 bike carrier to this unit. Only thing I don't like is the design of the safety wing bolt. It is very difficult to remove by hand after tightening in place. I'm considering a different bolt since wrenches are required to remove the tire from the carrier I see no problem using a wrench to remove this safety bolt.

Bought this for my motorhome. Had heard some scary stories about having flats and not having a spare. Being able to get that heavy tire on the ground easily is one less worry for me. At least I will have a spare tire for emergency road service to work with if I have a flat. Well worth the extra money! Works great.

Very sturdy and well made. Easy to install. Be sure to have Locktite 'Red' on hand for the bolts.The extension handle makes such a difference - nice feature - make it a one person job to raise and lower the spare. Expensive - but the best investment yet !

Installed this on my Winnebago Class A motorhome in under an hour without issues. My 22.5” spare wheel aligned well with the supplied mount holes, and given the 140 pound weight of the wheel, was lifted in place easily enough with the lifting lever. I also added a piggy-back bicycle rack hitch which worked well with this hitch.A little pricey, but worth it.

Would be nice to have the offset rise up instead of dropping as this reduces an already low clearance for going over bumps or slight dips

Very pleased with this item. Extremely well built and easy to put ogether/install. Because it is made so solid it is a little heavy to install and remove from your hitch. You may want a second person for a little help to do this.

Our RV did not come with a spare or anyway to attach one. To complicate matters, we have a rear slide out that limits the height of what can be attach to the hitch and bumper. We were told by the dealer that this carrier would not work on RV and to have one made. Eventually we had a custom spare tire rack made for us, but were left with the task of lifting a 70 pound tire and wheel onto it. It worked, but was far from ideal.We purchased this carrier when we setup our car to be towed by our RV, expecting to have to lower it when we extended the slide out. To our surprise, the unit is relatively compact, and the slide out easily extends over it. One person can quickly mount a tire on it, and the leverage gained from the extendable handle makes lifting the tire no problem at all. The built in receiver is at the perfect height to attach a tow bar to our car. This is a great product for anyone wants to avoid paying the exorbitant cost to purchase a tire from roadside assistance and tow a car or trailer at the same time.Pros: Well Built Cons: None in useEasy to put togetherFits most spare tires and wheelsRoadmaster support was very helpfulPeace of mind

I spoke to the tech support people at Roadmaster both before and after I ordered this carrier. I was told it would work on "most" motorhomes, and I have no doubt that this is true. However, my 2001 Monoco Windsor is one of those that it really doesn't work well on - unless you think outside of the box a bit.The Roadmaster Spare tire carrier is designed to be mounted in your main receiver and has another receiver attached that allows you to connect your tow bar into the spare tire carrier itself. This is a sort of "pass through" that allows you to still tow a vehicle behind the motorhome with the spare tire carrier acting as a sort of "extension" for your receiver. For many motorhomes this will work fine. However, the Monoco (DP) has an engine cover that pulls out and lifts up. Even with the spare tire lowered to the side as in their video, the engine cover does NOT clear the spare tire carrier - at least not with the receiver as is. My choices were to return the spare tire carrier - which I purchased to save myself some cargo room in one of the pass through bays - or think outside of the box. My solution was this: Fortunately, my DP has a hitch with 3 receivers built in. The normal one in the middle and two other receivers somewhat higher and perhaps 18" to either side of the main receiver. They are both also extended out about 4" more that the main receiver. This allows me to mount the spare tire in the left hand receiver - in its most extended position of two - and still be able to raise and lower the door. Of course, the problem then when I make a left hand turn, the two bar WILL hit the spare tire carrier. I am rectifying this issue by purchasing the 071 receiver extension from Roadmaster which SHOULD extend the tow bar out far enough to allow for normal turning "without" hitting the tow bar on the spare tire carrier. Of course, it would have been cheaper to limit myself to right hand turns only, but I suspected that this might be inconvenient at times, so I ordered the extension. Note that this particular extension is ONLY for tow vehicles. It has a tow rating of 6000 lbs, but it's tongue weight rating is only 100 lbs. I found extensions with a higher tongue weight, but the tow rating was only 3500 lbs - not enough for most towed vehicles. I have also added "hitch tighteners" to all of my hitch connections including the spare tire carrier, the hitch extender, and the bike rack and hitch adapter on my Jeep Wrangler Unlimited tow vehicle.If you don't have the luxury of having more than a single receiver, consider adding one. I like the "look" of the spare tire carrier being off-center on my rig. Also, in the middle it blocks my license plate. Off-center, it doesn't. The only down side to mounting the spare tire carrier off-centered that I can see is that, when lowering the tire - as needed to access the engine or to use the spare - the tire comes down a little further out than the side of the MH - and the handle comes down FAR past of the side of the MH. You would need to keep this in mind if doing this on the side of the road as it would be easy to get hit lowering the spare. However, if you wait for traffic to clear and REMOVE the lowering handle immediately after lowering the spare, you should be good. Again, just be careful in traffic. Too many people are still spending more time looking at their phone than where they are driving.Finally, this really is a well built carrier. It's HEAVY. All steel. The welds look good and it does hold my 22.5" tire and steel rim. I will say that it tends to lean a bit in the fully extended position but this could be alleviated somewhat by using a shim in the receiver - if it's at all loose fitting - and using a good quality hitch tightener, or other clamping device where the spare tire carrier and the receiver tube meet. Since I'm not using the pass through receiver on the spare tire carrier, I'm considering having it removed to allow my tow bar to clear the spare tire carrier more easily, but I will have to do further research first - and wait until the warranty has expired, of course.