Motorist uses bizarre hack to replace car tyre with 18 Coca-Cola bottles – and it actually works

A QUIRKY motorist has used his imagination to create a makeshift spare tyre, made entirely out of Coke bottles.

And while that may be as ridiculous as it sounds, the bizarre hack actually worked as a temporary tyre - but only very briefly.

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Russian YouTube channel Garage 54 posted a video of the experiment, which used 18 large Coke bottles taped together and wrapped around an alloy wheel.

After replacing his rear right wheel with the new fizzy drink tyre, the driver started the car to see if he could actually move anywhere.

The first attempt went almost as you would expect, with bottles and Coke spraying everywhere.

The fact that the plastic bottle actually held the weight of the car would have been pretty impressive in itself, but the keen motorhead wanted to prove his tyre could actually drive.

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Five rolls of tape later and the strange accessory actually seemed to work.

The car rolled forward and even reversed using the soft drink bottles for a tyre, but as soon as the driver tried to pick up more than a snail's pace, the plastic tyre would slide off the axle.

But there's no denying the experiment worked, even for a very brief moment.

Obviously you should never drive on anything other than a proper tyre, but if you ever wondered what a Coke bottle is capable of, now you know.