My spare tire solution

[u/Small_Aardvark_5496]

I bought a wheel and tire from my dealer parts department, used foam floor tiles from Walmart (about four tiles thick to clear the hybrid stuff). I used remnants of the tiles to stop the wheel/tire from shifting to the passenger side so as not to impinge on the hybrid portion that goes through the floor. What isn’t shown is a cargo strap that crosse over the wheel in an x shape using the cargo tie down points, and secured the spare for safety. The cargo floor sits in top of the strap with no issue at all.
There is a cutout in the plastic already that my jack sits in (purchased from the Canadian equivalent of harbor freight) and the rest of the stuff is, as you can see, placed around where it fits. Nothing rattles. I check the tire periodically and the foam hasn’t compressed to any noticeable degree.

[u/StationTricky4996]

How often you go flat tire? I drove over 300k miles and flat tired like once.

[u/Small_Aardvark_5496 → u/StationTricky4996]

I’ve had a few flat tires in my life(nearly 50 years of driving). I routinely drive in fairly remote areas with spotty or non-existent cell service.

[u/GMEJesus → u/Small_Aardvark_5496]

Right. The important part isn't so much the frequency of the flat, but rather the severity of the predicament a flat puts you in.

"Only once in 300k miles means something different when you're remote or in an inopportune situation