How to Carry Rubbish in Dirty Gear Bag on Gen4

[TC.Barky]

How are people getting around not being able to put their dirty gear bags over the spare wheel carrier? I didn't think about that when I bought the NW :-( don't want to carry my rubbish inside and preferably not on the roof as I'll be sleeping up there.

[grhyso]

I have only ever camped with my NT with people who have utes or used the esky. Now with a fridge I'm not sure, it's one of the reasons I wanted an NP but my wife wasn't having any of that unfortunately.

Don't know how I'd carry a bin bag on the roof unless I strapped a spare wheel bag to the roof rack or got a custom made canvas carrier the size of bin bags?

The only way I've come up with is similar to a safari Pajero that's in SA. That is, custom steel real bumper, mount number plate on bumper, remove spare wheel trim (this has the added bonus of allowing larger tyres on the spare), make custom covers where the wheel trim was on the door and fit a dirty gear bag to the tyre. Probably the most expensive dirty gear bag you could get

Probably a good place to start looking into is what other people are using with cars like 200 series cruisers or grand cherokees etc that have the spare wheel fitted under the car?

[TC.Barky]

Yeah that's all I could come up with as well. Gonna be a real problem on longer trips. Can't imagine doing the CSR or something with a weeks worth of rubbish all in the back. Peee-eww

[TC.Barky]

Wonder if there is some kind of bracket I can hang off the spare wheel that has something to hang the bag off. Just needs to be a pole sticking out I spose. Bag would have to sit on the hinge side of the tyre. Hmmmm. Though I guess it would block the lights, damn

[spot01]

Is it possible to position a long bag/container on top of the spare wheel, perhaps using straps or a bracket mounted from inside the spare wheel mounting? It would restrict rear vision, depending on how large it needs to be.

Is it possible to remove the side plastic trim on the right side of the spare wheel & fix a bag/container there? Or make up a bracket to place a bag/container in that area?

Another option may be somewhere under the car (away from exhaust/hot bits), using a metal cage/basket of some sort to hold the rubbish?

If you don't have a dual battery, what about the space under the hood near the firewall? (the heat means only non combustible items could go here, eg, cans & bottles without labels, etc)

Not an easy one to solve!

[Downunder35m]

Might be too obvious for a spare wheel, but did you think of using one those hard covers and to mount a bin on it?
Simply unclip the whole cover when you don't use it or want to empty the bin.
Of course it would cost a few bucks but might be a product worth promoting

[TC.Barky]

Is it possible to position a long bag/container on top of the spare wheel, perhaps using straps or a bracket mounted from inside the spare wheel mounting? It would restrict rear vision, depending on how large it needs to be.

Is it possible to remove the side plastic trim on the right side of the spare wheel & fix a bag/container there? Or make up a bracket to place a bag/container in that area?

Another option may be somewhere under the car (away from exhaust/hot bits), using a metal cage/basket of some sort to hold the rubbish?

If you don't have a dual battery, what about the space under the hood near the firewall? (the heat means only non combustible items could go here, eg, cans & bottles without labels, etc)

Not an easy one to solve!

Hah some out of the box solutions there, I like your style. I'll come up with something. Probably something that sits on top of the wheel. We'll see

[Alex86]

Not overly familiar with the covers for the spare wheels (never dealt with them), but for your trips can you just take it off and put the gear bag on the exposed spare?????

Or is that too easy of a solution, you've already thought about it and it isn't possible???

[TC.Barky]

Not overly familiar with the covers for the spare wheels (never dealt with them), but for your trips can you just take it off and put the gear bag on the exposed spare?????

Or is that too easy of a solution, you've already thought about it and it isn't possible???

Thought about it, unfortunately fog light, reversing can and number plate are all on the outer shell

[spot01]

Might be some merit in this thought - is it possible to remove the swing cover & replace with some steel tube/frame to hold the number plate, light, camera & rubbish bag? The new frame could be bolted to the spare wheel mount through the wheel to carry the weight.

[TC.Barky]

Might be some merit in this thought - is it possible to remove the swing cover & replace with some steel tube/frame to hold the number plate, light, camera & rubbish bag? The new frame could be bolted to the spare wheel mount through the wheel to carry the weight.

Certainly possible. Prefer not to though as I like the look of the default wheel carrier unfortunately. Only reason I'd change it is to do a rear bar with swingaway carriers I think.

[MoreliaMatt]

Ive been thinking about this issue for over 12 months now.... and still thinking!!!

A mate with an NS just chucks it on and doesnt worry about the legalities of obscuring numberplate etc... But puts it inside the car when on road (defeats purpose)

I'm more worried about scratching up the shiny plastic!! Otherwise i'd just get a spare plate made up and cable tie it to the front of the bag...

There really isnt enough room to offset it to the hinge side, like you said, it would cover the lights? And up above would just be a pain to put anything in it!!!

Would be nice if a gen 3 rear door was a straight swap, but they dont look like it....

[JoshF]

as my spare wheel cover was already damaged I just ignore having rub marks all the standard ones (I have the SCA one) make and thrown the bag on the back. works very well for dirty gear or rubbish

[kibz]

Maybe a spare number plate on the bag and plastidip your wheel cover the same colour to save it from scratches.

[02-SR5]

Cant be that hard to make, its just a canvas bag with straps and clips.

Why not just hit the local canvas place up and get one made to fit your factory wheel cover.

Be better quality than any of the Chinese rubbish and it will suit your needs as it is your design.

Thats what I would do.