Yes and a flat 6” square piece of aluminium plate as a load spreader. What ever you do don’t do it without having the van hitched to the car.
Just make sure the bottle jack will go under if the caravan tyre is flat. I bought a low profile bottle jack after realising a standard one wouldn’t fit under if the tyre was flat.
If the caravan is too low with a flat tyre, run the wheel up a kerb or use your levelling ramp/blocks.
I religiously maintained it by cleaning and lubricating and periodically removed the tyre to check pressure and that its sidewalls were not becoming chafed. But it soon dawned on me that it was a bag of junk, so when preparing for a trip abroad I removed the wheel. I didn’t want to be withdrawing the wheel on its supports into a live traffic stream. So the wheel went into the caravan and never went back on the carrier. After that I would do the same from Day 1 with subsequent caravans. Of course the carriers were removed fir a bit of extra payload.
Think that is what I will do, carry spare in van, then when pitching just stick it under van.
On my last van there was no fixed bed so the spare sat in the doorway which restrained it fore and aft, and the Lafumas restrained sideways movement. On site it went under the caravan secured with a motorcycle chain. With the porch up it couldn’t be seen anyway.
If there's only 2 people in the car, the caravan spare can sit vertically in the rear footwell, suitably covered to protect the upholstery - removes even more weight from the caravan.
Good idea but my rear footwells were always used for other items. But only half the footwell width could be used as being 6 ft 4 inch the front seat was invariably fully back, and even my Superb estate would not have had sufficient room to accommodate the caravan wheel. Then there were the two dogs to accommodate too. But we managed our payload okay within the MTPLM.
I'm surprised that your Superb didn't have enough rear legroom to fit the caravan spare - mine goes behind the front passenger seat, originally in case it needed moving forwards to make enough space, but in the event it goes in with the seat in it's "normal" position of fully back but at highest setting.
It would not have gone in behind me, and the wider space behind my wife was used for other gear. Different cars such as the XC70 had pitiful rear legroom all round. But notwithstanding we managed and had all the stuff we required to enjoy our trips.
Its where you mustn't jack up on the chassis, ie under where the large oval holes are.(whatever they're for?)
My Jack wouldn’t lift the caravan unless you had popeye muscles
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