Hey, Real truck owners. Enjoy your trucks. I love my Ridgeline and it really is none or your d$#m business. How insecure does someone have to be to care what someone else drives.

if that’s a worry take it out and throw it in the back cargo area on those rare occasions the back is loaded with loose material you can’t unload in an emergency. Most of the time the bed is loaded with boxes, horse feed, lumber, gates, hay etc. I carry Mulch once a year. I don’t put the spare in the back when I do…

So that;’s why the Ridge is the only midsize that can carry sheetrock flat in the bed. Sounds more like a step-down wasting all the bed space all the time.

Instead of buying a chrome tailpipe extension buy a full-size spare. You will find lots of cheap original tires on craigs list from owners that upgraded their rims and or tires

Don’t be so cheap. buy a full-size spare. It fits in the tray.

Then use it in the traditional way. why is having an option a downside for you? When I buy 40lb bags of feed for my ranch I can load and stack them into the bed and the gate still closes. In a conventional truck you have to slide the bags past the gate if you need more than one level you have to enter the bed on the…

It is needed to give access to the trunk. Also. if you ever carry gas cans or 5gal water bottles, as I often do, it lets you reach things against the back wall. It also makes getting in the bed a whole lot easier. But the trunk access is the real issue. We use our old ridge as a family car, the trunk is used for…