Thanks for the reply I supose it will still drive better than a spacesaver so I am happy with that

Sound advice from Galileo, just in case.

it's not unusual for the correct non space saver spare to be a different size from wide alloys, but unscrupulous people have been known to swap a (usually rental) choice spare for some odd thing they happen to have lying around.

Thats interesting Galaxy about the wheelnuts.

I've found two scenarios with this, if there's a steel spare it wil either have welded-in collars on the wheelbolt holes so the alloy bolts fit (PSA do this), or a second set of standard often shorter steel wheelbolts usually found in the locking wheel nut pack.

Were the correct wheelbolts missing i wonder.

gordonbennet,

You don't get any alternative nuts to use with the steel wheel, Ford tell you to use the same ones as for the alloys. To be perfectly honest, I was never 100% happy with this arrangement because you can clearly see the nuts don't fit the steel wheel holes correctly, but Ford say it's OK!

I always had in mind to puchase a set of steel wheel nuts, specifically for use with the steel spare wheel, but never got round to it.

jc2 is correct.

Ah, Ford do it the other way to PSA then with dual purpose bolts, with the same end result, well done them, less for an owner to have to think about or faff about with changing a flat in typical never handy circumstances.

Longer bolts are more of a worry for cars with drum inside disc parking brakes, too long a bolt and you can end up mashing the parking brake mechanism up, i don't think PSA or Ford use the disc within drum parking brake, except maybe on the odd rebadged model...one such could be Pug 4007 which *may* have drum inside disc, previous Outlander does so possible.