I'm rather chuffed with myself.
The Acadiane's spare was a rather cracked but original Mitchelin 125 section tyre, also the paint was rather dubious on the rim too.
Enter eBay for a specific 15" portable bead breaker (after the vice failed to do the task), and off the old tyre came.
After much application of wire brush in the drill we were down to bare metal and time to apply some paint.
Enter the Earlex hoover powered spay kit (apologies for the picture quality it's off my phone)
Etch primer and white filler primer later, it's time to apply the silver..........7 coats later it still doesn't look silver to me but I'm bored applying coats now so stuff it and get the job finished.
One new valve (38p - bargain) and it's time to gird one's loins and apply tyre levers. With the paint being very new and soft I put the wheel on multiple layers of polythene sheet with an old towel underneath to make sure the finish wasn't damaged.
This is the time when proper tyre soap and 2 foot tyre levers are handy, with the beads well soaped inside and out and judicious use of the big levers, lo and behold the tyre popped over the rim - nobody could have been more surprised than me.
Firing up the Aldi 'oilless' compressor I remove the valve core and connect the inflator; this is the part when it either works or you resort to a can of Easystart and a blowlamp to get the beads seated on the rim.
Blow me down but the tyre pops on at the first attempt and at 40 PSI to boot - I have seen over 70 on motorcycle tyres before that satisfying pop!
Bingo Bongo, I have a spare wheel again:
Now this may seem mundane to some but this is the first car tyre I have fitted.
