I would use the spare, but I haven't rotated it with the other wheels/tires yet. If I put the spare on, I'll have one brand new tire with lots of tread and three moderately worn tires with close to 6K miles on them. I could use just the rim and have the tire from the scratched up rim put on. However, that would mean a mounting and balancing for two rims and tires. Right now, I just want to stay away from the local tire chains until I can find one that doesn't damage the wheels when they balance them.
Second, the spare tire rim that I have has a few dings on it from an incompetent service writer. I bought the spare tire lock, but couldn't get it to fit inside the plastic shroud assembly located above the spare tire. I thought if I took it to the dealer, they would know how to install it properly. WRONG!. When the service writer got under the truck, he kept fumbling around with the lock and it dropped a couple of times on the rim.
I'm not sure why I'm having such a difficult time getting a proper color match for the factory rims. It seems the local paint stores around here just eyeball it or something when they do a color match.
I guess I'll have to pay a body shop to fix the wheel or perhaps buy a new rim. I just can't understand why Nissan lists no color code for their wheels. GM usually has color code listing for their wheels.
