Spare tire STUCK! 1999-2006 Chevy/GMC - How to release the safety latch 🧰🧰🧰 

Well, it took me 5 or 6 videos of idiots not explaining things and THANKFULLY I found this one that actually EXPLAINS what is happening and how to manipulate it. THANK YOU. I just hope mine works, because mine doesn't lower AT ALL. Only the spring comes down a bit. Every thing else is totally jammed up solid.

Thanks for the how to! Saved us time and more headache than needed, probably a good idea to lubricate the hinged safety lever Pennsylvania sees a good bit of salt and could possibly freeze it up

Dude, I thank God you made this video! We were stuck a ways from home at night, and the dang tire was stuck. Freaking safety junk. Saw this, worked that spare around and released the catch. Saved us a night in a seedy hotel!

I got mine apart and took the whole thing out and replaced it with a home made system that will release from below or by taking off the license plate and pulling a pin. You do need to jack on the rim to take the pressure off to be able to pull the "pin".

Thank you so much for explaining this idiotic invention. Glad I don't have to do this at night on the side of the highway. I'll do it in my driveway and strap the spare behind the back seat. Plenty of room there. Great job Dan!

Deserve a million likes only video that show all steps

Thanks man. Been wrestling with this thing for 2 days

Just used this video and it worked. Thank you so much for posting it.

This video came in handy for me today! What a life saver!

Thanks Dan! I couldn't figure out why the spare in my 04 Tahoe would only drop a couple of inches and just hang there loosely even though the cable would come all the way down. So now I know what to do to fix it!

OMG I'm so glad you posted this I'm wondering if this has to be done every time and I'm sure it does A huge thank you for this video

Thanks for the video, it helped me in the struggle😅

Handy but I haven't made it to this point. Ours has a keyed lock in the hole on the bumper that is stuck and won't open. Trying to figure out how to remove it

Thanks, worked like a charm best video out there, worked on my 2004 Sierra 2500 HD.

clear as day. best explanation ive seen. thanks brodi

Thanks. Clear and easy to understand about the latch👍

If you read the owners manual, it shows you how to release the latch. You raise the jack 6 to 8 inches with those weird looking wheel chocks on end and jack it up against the spring until it doesn't go anymore, then crank it with the rods to lower the tire until it moves past the safety latch, remove the jack and lower the tire to the ground. That whole mechanism was supposed to be maintained with lubricant twice a year. I know, nobody has ever lubed that mechanism, me included.

I drive a 2013 Denali and recently took it in for service and a brake job. This is Minnesota and I knew my spare was rusted in and unusable. I am too old to do this kind of work; so I had the dealer drop it and put it the rear. It cost $90 but now I can have AAA change it. He said it was hard to do. Do it and pay.

I have a key hole on my 01 Silverado and I don’t know how to insert the bars in the back

Clear, easy to understand, thank you!!

Thank you for doing this video. Luckily my tire is already off so it should be easier in my case

Thanks Dan! Saved our butts

Superb informative video. 👍

Good to know. I guess mine was never properly engaged. Just purchase a truck so I want to make sure everything is on point. I'm missing and replacing components

Awesome. Thanks!

You saved my bacon, I would have got the angle grinder out to destroy everything in my path!

For those of you not covered by these repetitive videos. The ones that are stuck before the safety mechanism. Shake the tire back and forth that lines up with the latch. There is a bur on the metal that is causing it to hang. Flatten it with a hammer or sandpaper once you have it out.

I literally cannot believe this. All this to get a spare tire down???? I'd have never bought this truck if I had known. Fucking unbelievable. Of course there's nothing about it in the owners manual. God help the people who have to deal with this on a busy freeway and don't have a tool to get to the shitty little gizmo 🤬

great tip

I just cut the hook off. I just use a ratchet strap as the safety.

Thanks

Good info thanks

WHat if you dont have the tool to lower it after its unlocked???

Excellent. Super helpful.

Thanks bro

I can't even get the key to pull the mechanism out to put the bars in the sheath

Thank you for this i got so frustrated i started kicking the shit out of mine lol

Or just do as the manual says and use the jack on that knob/ball at the end of the cable. It releases the hook mechanism. You then have to go back and forth with the tool to lower the jack then lower he cable then back to the tire then back to the cable etc untill it's down. No rachet strap or screwdriver needed 👍🏻🦆🦆🦆

i cant even get the first damn release to even turn. I got as far as put the key to expose the first lock, i put the tool in there and it just free spins, no lowering done what so ever. And its not like you can really see in there so i dont know whts going on

Thanks much.

I’m about to Sawsall that whole thing off broke two large screwdrivers and a pry bar w lump hammer. Just evil evil !!!!!!!! Yea New England rust

Sweet,on the side of the highway,cars passing at 80mph,and you have to F with lowering mech,total bullshit,20yrs and never needed IT TILL now,,,,,engineering at its best,,, knowing it will rust no matter what you do to maintain it,,,,,about to g3t a can of gas and a match

It is impossible when the tire is in the way try it

Now do it with the tire up in there all the way

A Rube Goldberg

Leave it to gm to screw over people that live in the Midwest where stuff rusts solid to need more tools than they provide for a normal tire change 🤦 video was helpful so I know why it will never come down

WHAT crank, what behind the seat? What seat/ I've owned the 2005 Montana 2005 for 3 years, needed my spare out, listened your video, and said, what an idiot, helped me ZERO! You need to sTEP 1, do this, Step 2, do this, you say behind the seat, what seat, show me? What tool, show me and explain. where is that tool? behind some seat?? I have the entire rear end of my Van with STUFF, do I have to take it all out and get to the bottom, and try to find a TOOL, what tool, and how does a round hole in the back of my van, need a tool, what tool, and is it round, square, the hole is round, WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR, as there is no round tool I've ever seen. Step by step, or you just lose people - Goodbye, please re-evaluate your video, it did me no good!

Completely USELESS information when on the side of the road!