Our Jeep has a Warn rear bumper w/ a swing away tire carrier. Great place to mount a tire when off roading. If you have to change a tire and it's muddy, you will hate crawling under the truck to fetch your spare. Having it mounted on the bumper makes it easy to pull down the spare and put up the flat. But each time you need to lift your hatch, you will have to swing away the spare first (and possibly unlock it beforehand). Not that big a deal, but figure that you just made a beer run, gotta couple a cases, it's raining, you're trying to get back before half time is over, and you got to get that tire out of the way first. Not a trick you can pull off with your arms full. You get the idea. It's not handy when you want quick access to the hatch, but very handy when you want access to the spare. I asked Jim (Schrockworks) if the tire carrier could come off for daily driving and put on when you want it. He said it's pretty easy, but since the license tag and the trailer light hookup (I think) are both located on the tire carrier, some alternate mounting spots would have to be rigged. This is something I would be interested in, since I'm still waffling on the Shrock w/ or w/o the tire carrier. The Shrock bumper also has the benefit of increasing your departure angle (especially if you have a factory hitch on your truck).
