The Tyre Fire® Story: How Australia’s Only Registered Trademark Spare Tyre Fire Pit Was Built
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Every other spare tyre fire pit on the Australian market has the same problem - and none of them have solved it.
You mount the fire pit on the tyre. Great. One problem solved. But then you add a grill plate or hot plate, because you actually want to cook. Now where do those plates live during transport?
On every other system: inside your vehicle. In a bag. Covered in grease and soot. Back to square one.
The Tyre Fire® solved this with a patented integrated storage system. The grill plate and hot plate are engineered to store directly with the fire pit on the spare tyre during transport - not in a separate bag inside your vehicle.
This patent belongs exclusively to Tyre Fire®. No other spare tyre fire pit in Australia has it.
That one engineering decision changes everything about how you tour. The rest of this article explains the full story - why the Tyre Fire® was built, what makes it different at every level, and why the registered trademark matters when choosing which brand to trust.
Tyre Fire® is a registered trademark in Australia. The name "Tyre Fire" belongs exclusively to this brand. When you see the ® symbol, you are buying the original - not an imitation.
Tyre Fire® Specifications
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Material | Grade 430 stainless steel — fire pit and all cooking plates |
| Dimensions | 745mm (L) × 340mm (W) × 340mm (H) |
| Firebox depth | 240mm |
| Ground clearance | 100mm |
| Weight | 12kg - one of the lightest in its class |
| Tyre compatibility | Fits spare tyres 310mm wide or less (LandCruiser, Ranger, Patrol, Prado, Pajero, most caravans) |
| Mounting system | 4 integrated tie-down points + ratchet straps |
| Construction | Patented M8 bolted modular chassis patented |
| Grill/plate storage | Patented integrated system -plates travel with the pit on the tyre, not inside your vehicle patented |
| Fuel types | Firewood, charcoal, heat beads |
| Camp oven fit | Bedourie ovens + most 30cm (12-inch) camp ovens |
| Brand status | Registered trademark in Australia ® |
| Delivery | Free to major metro areas |
Tyre size check: look for the code on your sidewall - e.g. 265/70R17. The first number is the width in mm. 310mm or under = fits. Not sure? Contact us with your tyre details.
The Integrated Storage Patent: Why Grill Plates Should Not Live Inside Your Vehicle
Let's go deeper - because this is the feature that separates the Tyre Fire® from everything else on the market, and it's worth understanding exactly how it works.
When you add a grill plate or 2-in-1 Hot Plate & Grill to any other spare tyre fire pit, those plates need to be stored somewhere for the drive between camps. The answer is always the same: a bag, inside your vehicle - covered in soot and grease, sitting next to your clean gear, food storage, and sleeping equipment. On a long touring trip, this becomes a genuine daily problem.
The Tyre Fire® was engineered to eliminate this entirely.
How the patented integrated storage system works:
The cooking plate is designed to nest directly with the fire pit body and store upside down on the spare tyre during transport. The inverted position is deliberate - it protects the cooking surface from road dust, debris, and scratches on the tracks.
The fire pit and its cooking plates leave camp as one complete, self-contained unit on the outside of the vehicle. Nothing goes inside. No greasy bags. No odour near your food. No soot on your gear.
When you arrive at the next camp, the cooking surface is clean, protected, and immediately ready to use.
This integrated storage system is patented. It belongs to Tyre Fire®. It cannot be replicated by generic imitations. If the spare tyre fire pit you are comparing requires cooking plates to be packed inside your vehicle - it has not solved the problem. It has only moved the fire pit.
Why Campers Needed a Smarter Spare Tyre Fire Pit Solution
For serious tourers - the people doing the lap, the Gibb River Road, the Simpson Desert crossing - every centimetre inside the 4WD or caravan is contested real estate.
Fridges, recovery gear, water storage, spare parts, food, tools, clothing. The packing hierarchy is ruthless. A fire pit, unless it solved a real problem, kept sliding to the bottom of the list. Many tourers just left it at home.
The smarter solution wasn't to redesign the fire pit. It was to rethink where it lived - and more importantly, where the cooking plates lived with it.
The Problem With Traditional Portable Fire Pits
Folding/collapsible fire pits. They work for light use. The problem is disassembly: sooty panels, greasy grates, everything bagged before it touches anything clean. On a six-week lap, that greasy bag sitting next to your sleeping gear becomes a recurring nightmare. And the cooking plates still live inside the vehicle.
Standalone kettle BBQs. Great in the backyard. Not ideal when you're watching GVM, parking on a camber, or packing out in a hurry - and still no solution to where the plates go.
Ground fires. Legal in a dwindling number of parks. Increasingly regulated. Not the answer anyone searching "spare tyre fire pit australia" is looking for.
None of these options solved the storage problem. They all still ended up taking space - and making mess - inside the vehicle.
Then someone looked at the back of a 4WD and asked a different question.
The Spare Tyre Insight: Using Space That Already Exists
Every 4WD, caravan, and camper trailer already carries a spare tyre. It travels every kilometre of every trip. It occupies space on the outside of the vehicle - and until an emergency, contributes nothing but peace of mind.
The insight behind the Tyre Fire® was simple: build a fire pit - and a cooking system - that mounts over the spare tyre, using space that already exists without taking a single centimetre from inside the vehicle.
The Tyre Fire® mounts using four integrated tie-down points on the base, secured with standard ratchet straps (Bunnings, Supercheap Auto). It fits the vast majority of Australian touring vehicles: any spare tyre 310mm wide or less.
Tyre size check: Look for the size code on the sidewall - e.g. 265/70R17. The first number (265) is the width in mm. 310mm or under = compatible. Covers the Toyota LandCruiser, Prado, Ford Ranger, Nissan Patrol, Mitsubishi Pajero, and most Australian caravans and camper trailers. Not sure? Send us your tyre size.
The result: a fire pit and complete cooking system that occupies zero internal storage space. Everything rides on the back of the vehicle, outside, secured against the roughest corrugations, completely out of the way until you need it.
Why Tyre Fire® Chose M8 Bolted Construction - Not Welding - And Why It Matters
Most stainless steel fire pits are welded shut. It looks clean. It looks solid. The problem emerges the moment you light a real fire.
Steel expands under heat — this is not a flaw, it is fundamental physics. When a fire pit's chassis is welded as a rigid, sealed unit, the expanding metal has nowhere to go. The stress concentrates at the weld points. Over time: warping, cracking, an uneven base. This is why so many cheap fire pits end up in hard rubbish after a few seasons.
The Tyre Fire® M8 Bolted Technology uses high-tensile M8 bolts and factory-welded internal nuts to assemble the chassis as a modular system. The panels are not fused together — they are joined with precision fasteners that allow the chassis to breathe and flex during intense heat cycles.
When the fire gets genuinely hot, the panels expand as physics demands, then return to their original geometry as the pit cools. The result: a chassis that stays perfectly square through years of hard outback use.
The GVM implication: At 12kg in Grade 430 stainless steel, the Tyre Fire® is one of the lightest capable fire pit systems available in Australia. Compare that to heavy cast iron options that can add 25kg or more to a loaded touring rig. Every kilogram matters when you've done the maths on your GVM.
Modular and Fully Serviceable: The Advantage Nobody Talks About Enough
Every panel on the Tyre Fire® is a discrete, replaceable component. If a single panel is damaged on a tough track, you don't replace the entire unit — you order the damaged panel, swap it out, and keep moving.
A welded fire pit is a single fused structure. Damage any part — you're replacing the whole thing.
For tourers who invest in quality gear and expect to use it for a decade, full serviceability is the difference between a fire pit that has a lifespan and one that is just a purchase. The Tyre Fire® is designed to be repaired and maintained - to be with you on every trip, not just the first few years of them.
What "Registered Trademark" Means - And Why It Matters to You as a Buyer
In any growing product category, the success of an original product attracts imitations. This is normal. What is less normal is when imitators borrow the language and positioning of the original brand to give themselves borrowed credibility.
Tyre Fire® is a registered trademark in Australia. The name "Tyre Fire" belongs exclusively to this brand. The ® symbol confirms that the Australian government has formally recognised this trademark in commerce.
When you search for "Tyre Fire" and land on tyrefire.com.au, you are in the right place. When you see the ® symbol on the product, you are buying the original - with the patented integrated storage system that no imitation carries.
If the spare tyre fire pit you are looking at does not carry the Tyre Fire® registered trademark, you are not buying the original.
The Integrated Cooking System: More Than a Fire Pit
The Tyre Fire® is a complete outdoor kitchen - and the entire system, fire pit and cooking plates included, travels as one unit on your spare tyre.
2-in-1 Hot Plate & Grill - $96 AUD
Dual-surface cooking: flat plate for eggs, bacon, and pancakes; open grill for steaks and snags. Stores upside down with the fire pit on the tyre - clean and protected in transit, ready the moment you arrive.
Grill Plate - $102 AUD
Dedicated campfire grill for high-heat open-flame cooking. Fits the Tyre Fire® and stores as part of the integrated system.
Hot Plate - $92 AUD
Flat cooking surface for frying, sautéing, and camp oven work. The Tyre Fire® also fits most standard Bedourie ovens and 30cm (12-inch) camp ovens.
Rotisserie attachment - coming soon. Add whole-chicken and roast cooking capability to the system.
Every Tyre Fire® accessory was designed as part of the integrated system from day one - not bolted on as an afterthought. The patented storage system means all of it travels together, outside the vehicle, on the spare tyre. Nothing inside. Nothing separate. Nothing forgotten.
Who the Tyre Fire® Is Built For
The Tyre Fire® is not a backyard fire pit. It is built for people who take their 4WD or caravan to places most people never see, and who want a fire and a proper meal at the end of every day.
Long-haul tourers. The lap. The Gibb. The Simpson. People for whom camping is weeks or months at a time, who think carefully about every item they carry, and need gear that earns its place by solving a real problem and lasting the distance.
Caravan and camper trailer families. A campfire setup that is safe, accessible, and ready to use at the end of a long drive - without fifteen minutes of fiddling when everyone is tired and hungry.
Weekend 4WD tourers. A Saturday night camp. A fire and a feed. Packed and driving again by Sunday morning. No assembly. No greasy bag in the back of the Ranger. No ritual.
GVM-conscious tourers. At 12kg, the Tyre Fire® is one of the lightest capable fire pit systems available in Australia. Every kilogram saved is a kilogram you can spend somewhere it matters more.
Tyre Fire® vs the Alternatives: Five Questions That Cut Through the Marketing
When comparing spare tyre fire pits, every product sounds similar. Here are five questions that separate the original from the imitations.
| Ask this before you buy | Tyre Fire® | Generic / other brands |
|---|---|---|
|
Do grill plates store with the pit on the tyre? Or in a greasy bag inside your vehicle? |
✔ Patented integrated storage - plates travel with the pit, outside the vehicle | ✘ Plates packed separately inside - the original problem remains unsolved |
|
Bolted or welded chassis? Welded = warping and cracking over time |
✔ Patented M8 bolted - engineered to flex under heat | ✘ Most are welded - stress concentrates at weld points under heat |
|
Are individual panels replaceable? Or is damage = replace the whole unit? |
✔ Fully modular - any single panel can be swapped independently | ✘ Welded = single fused structure, no independent panel replacement |
|
Is it a registered trademark brand? Original or imitation? |
✔ Registered trademark in Australia — the original brand in this category | ✘ No registered trademark - generic or imitation product |
|
Was the cooking system designed as an integrated whole? Or are the accessories an afterthought? |
✔ Fire pit + plates + storage engineered as one system from day one | ✘ Fire pit designed first, accessories added later - storage not solved |
No other spare tyre fire pit currently available in Australia answers all five of these questions the way the Tyre Fire® does. See the full comparison here →
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Where to Buy the Original Tyre Fire® in Australia
The Tyre Fire® is available exclusively through tyrefire.com.au - direct from the manufacturer. No middleman. No reseller mark-up. No ambiguity about what you're getting.
When you order through tyrefire.com.au, you receive the genuine, registered trademark Tyre Fire® - with the patented integrated storage system, the M8 bolted chassis, and the support that generic alternatives cannot provide.
Free delivery to major metro areas across Australia.
Considering the Tyre Fire® against another option? The Tyre Fire® vs Generic comparison page walks through every key difference before you commit.
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes the Tyre Fire® different from other spare tyre fire pits?
Two patents and a registered trademark. The patented integrated storage system means cooking plates store directly with the fire pit on the spare tyre - not in a bag inside your vehicle. The patented M8 bolted modular chassis allows the chassis to flex under heat, preventing the warping and cracking that affects welded fire pits. And Tyre Fire® is the original registered trademark brand in this category - every other product is an imitation.
Why does the grill plate store upside down?
Storing the cooking plate upside down is a deliberate part of the patented integrated storage system. The inverted position protects the cooking surface from road dust, debris, and scratches during transit - so when you arrive at camp, the surface is clean, protected, and immediately ready to use. No cover required. No wiping down before cooking.
Does the Tyre Fire® fit my 4WD or caravan?
The Tyre Fire® fits any spare tyre 310mm wide or less. Check the size code on your tyre's sidewall - for example, 265/70R17. The first number (265) is the width in millimetres. If it's 310mm or under, you're compatible. This covers the Toyota LandCruiser, Prado, Ford Ranger, Nissan Patrol, Mitsubishi Pajero, and most Australian caravans and camper trailers. Not sure? Contact us with your tyre size.
What is a spare tyre fire pit?
A spare tyre fire pit mounts over the spare tyre of a 4WD, caravan, or camper trailer - using the space that already exists on your setup instead of occupying internal vehicle storage. The Tyre Fire® is the registered trademark spare tyre fire pit in Australia, and the only one with a patented integrated system for storing cooking plates with the fire pit on the tyre.
What does the M8 bolted construction actually mean?
M8 refers to the metric bolt specification. Instead of fusing the chassis panels together as welded fire pits do, the M8 bolted system joins them as a modular assembly that can flex under heat - then return to shape as the pit cools. No stress at weld points. No warping. A chassis that stays square through years of hard use.
Is the Tyre Fire® a registered trademark?
Yes. Tyre Fire® is a registered trademark in Australia. The name "Tyre Fire" belongs exclusively to this brand. The ® symbol throughout this website and on the product confirms this status. Tyre Fire® is the original registered trademark brand in the spare tyre fire pit category in Australia.
What cooking accessories are available?
The Tyre Fire® supports a 2-in-1 Hot Plate & Grill ($96 AUD), a Grill Plate ($102 AUD), and a Hot Plate ($92 AUD). All accessories are Grade 430 stainless steel and are all engineered to store with the fire pit on the spare tyre using the patented integrated storage system. The Tyre Fire® also fits most standard Bedourie ovens and 30cm camp ovens. A rotisserie attachment is in development.
The Tyre Fire® spare tyre fire pit exists because the problem was real, the solution was worth engineering properly, and the result was worth protecting with a registered trademark and a patent.
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