Running spareless

I suppose it depends on what tyres you are running.
Also the good thing about the Jimny and most 4x4 is mounting a spare wheel doesn't take up any space because its outside the car.
Personally I thing Jimnys look better with a spare tyre mounted on the back.

I used to have a Clio with no spare tyre but had run flat tyres that could do 40ish miles on a flat, so again just depends on the tyres you're running.

My opinion would be a combination of the previous posts. When I am off-road I almost always take the spare off and leave it at the base camp. My decision making process is fairly simple: If I can walk out or have some method of rescue, I leave it off. If I don't have a reasonable means of rescue, I never leave it off.

Not my Jimny but this is how it looks:

Hmmm. It's not the cleanest of back door shapes, less obvious in black I guess but still.... Hmmm. Cheers all.

You might want to consider this first:

www.bigjimny.com/mediawiki/index.php?tit...wheel_and_tyre_usage

That's best practice I admit, but in the real world a 5 wheel rotation is something of a moot point because the Jimny is 2wd on all occasions when the difference between the wear rates of similar size tyres would cause a problem and it's able to slip off road in 4x4. Meaning that so long as you have the either new or worn spare on the front undriven axle it can't do any significant damage to the car. Obviously different sizes of tyres between the road wheels and spare creates all kinds of problems. But generally speaking being spareless is a matter of how optimistic or brave one is about being able to deal with a puncture.

Bosanek wrote: You might want to consider this first:

www.bigjimny.com/mediawiki/index.php?tit...wheel_and_tyre_usage

I have had a few vehicles where it was recommended the tyres need to be fairly much of the same wear being permanent 4x4 (and they were a pain) so replacing a blowout with an unused tyre was not a good idea.but generally I don't worry about it and expect to wear all four out and replace all four in one go but with my low annual mileage that typically takes years.