1972 full size spare?

[kentf14]

Oops, missed that this was a 5.5

[72t4tom]

I bumped to 185/70-15 on 6J steel wheels 72T. spare was the same with standard gas tank

[tcsracing1]

thanks guys.

I found 5 date coded 1972 Fuchs for my car to make it correct.

[dirk07]

German 72´911T had 5,5",optional 6" don't know for US

[Gearby]

What month was your car made? The reason I ask is my car was made Jan. of 1972, and through a prior post it was determined that the Fuchs that were being put on the January cars were dated only a couple weeks prior to production of the car. So my Fuchs would have been dated most likely January of 1972 since my car was a late January build. And the spare would have been dated somewhere between November of 71 and January of 72. Because of course the spares came off a different palette. Yes I'm probably muddying the waters a bit, but if you really want to be obsessive, this is a good way to do it.

[tcsracing1]

What month was your car made? The reason I ask is my car was made Jan. of 1972, and through a prior post it was determined that the Fuchs that were being put on the January cars were dated only a couple weeks prior to production of the car. So my Fuchs would have been dated most likely January of 1972 since my car was a late January build. And the spare would have been dated somewhere between November of 71 and January of 72. Because of course the spares came off a different palette. Yes I'm probably muddying the waters a bit, but if you really want to be obsessive, this is a good way to do it.

my car is 1/72 build.

the spare in the car is a 1970 date. Steel 5.5.

the spare would appear to be too old to be correct?

[Gearby]

Yes I would think so but the discussion we had was over Fuchs. Harvey said that the spares came off a different palette therefore they could have been dated older than the set that was on the car. Obviously the dates meant nothing to Porsche. If Porsche had a large stock of Steel Wheels then I suppose it would be possible that they could have been dated well before the production of car. I would think that that might be too early but maybe you should start a thread on dating of original Steel Wheels on cars. If you can find a couple others that have a similar situation that would give you your answer.

[dirk07]

5,5 also in the US

[tcsracing1]

would it be common for the date code on the spare wheel to be older then the car?

[Gearby]

Yes. Apparently it was not uncommon that the spare had a different date than the ones that were on the car. Since the spare was put in at a different time and place at the factory they would have gone through four pallets of wheels to every one pallet of spares.