View Poll Results: Do you drive with your spare tire?
Yes
21
29.17%
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51
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Do you ride with your Spare?
08-31-2011, 03:06 PM
#1
Do you ride with your Spare? My spare tire has the tread coming off and I broke my jack so I was thinking of just taking it out to save weight and just riding with a little 12V Air pump. How many people carry around their spare tire? This is my DD car.
08-31-2011, 03:33 PM
#5
If I am around town/within an hour or so of home I don't. I have plenty of friends that can run to my place and grab another rim/tire and a floor jack. If I go on a road trip or something, then I will take it along. 99.99% of the time it's just dead weight.
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08-31-2011, 05:31 PM
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I do. several years ago right after i bought the car, i had a blowout just outside of alligator alley on I75 over by naples and had no jack. the spare was there but that didn't do much good, lol. i had to wait 2 hrs for FL helpers to help me change the tire. after that i went and bought a jack at a junkyard.
as for fix a flat, i don't know how that would have worked with a 2 inch gash in the tire from a piece of metal.
truthfully, after the kind of scraping i saw on the front bumper after driving it for ~ 50-100 mi that day on the donut, i would probably just have it towed somewhere. i think my collector's insurance has roadside assitance/towing.
as for fix a flat, i don't know how that would have worked with a 2 inch gash in the tire from a piece of metal.
truthfully, after the kind of scraping i saw on the front bumper after driving it for ~ 50-100 mi that day on the donut, i would probably just have it towed somewhere. i think my collector's insurance has roadside assitance/towing.
