jeeden
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Yea, I am usually one to rally against "spare tire anxiety" but since our R1S is the family hauler and I can get the tire at the lower price I'm going to go ahead and get it.
I have stated before that I don't want anyone in my family changing a tire on the side of the road, it is simply too dangerous and the math says you would be less likely to get injured if you drove drunk. On top of that, we only do a couple of road trips a year more than 3 hours away. I would plan to use the tire sealant or just keep pumping up the tire in the case of a slow or pretty large leak to get it repaired. In the instance of complete tire failure though, you kind of half to have it or plan to have the car towed.
The scenario I'm thinking of happened to my family and I in our Ford Explorer a few years ago while going from Northern VA to New Hampshire. In NJ near the Vince Lombardi service station in heavy and fast traffic we heard a clunk and the TPS light came on. We were lucky I pulled right into the Lombardi station just 100ft up the road before we were committed to 20 miles of slow traffic with no stops. Got out and there was a 6-inch piece of rebar in the sidewall of my Michelin Defender tire. The service stop has a garage there and the guy couldn't believe the damage and said "This is a nice tire!" haha, I laughed... then I cried, it was a nice tire
He didn't have the tire and I started calling while he put the compact spare on for me. Nobody had it for some reason including Costco etc. I did finally get a Ford dealership about 10 miles away that had it and was open for another 2 hours in the afternoon. We put all three kids, the labrador retriever, and all the luggage, fishing gear etc that had been packed nicely on people's laps, stacked to the ceiling, etc in the car and booked it over there and had the tire replaced. (Answer to the question above about what you do with stuff, you suffer for the less than 20-mile limp to a place for a full repair/replace)
If we didn't have the spare tire it would have been a tow to the dealer for $$$ and maybe we would have had to overnight as they closed. I'll add that the same scenario probably is true with the spare if I missed the exit for the service station and we wound up on the side of the NJ turnpike waiting for roadside or a tow truck to change it.
I will miss the full empty well for storage, but will put a few things I keep there now with the tire and I will have a standing rule that nobody is to jack up the car and try to change it or stand next to the highway, but it will be there so that someone else to change to get out of the situation and to a tire shop.
I have stated before that I don't want anyone in my family changing a tire on the side of the road, it is simply too dangerous and the math says you would be less likely to get injured if you drove drunk. On top of that, we only do a couple of road trips a year more than 3 hours away. I would plan to use the tire sealant or just keep pumping up the tire in the case of a slow or pretty large leak to get it repaired. In the instance of complete tire failure though, you kind of half to have it or plan to have the car towed.
The scenario I'm thinking of happened to my family and I in our Ford Explorer a few years ago while going from Northern VA to New Hampshire. In NJ near the Vince Lombardi service station in heavy and fast traffic we heard a clunk and the TPS light came on. We were lucky I pulled right into the Lombardi station just 100ft up the road before we were committed to 20 miles of slow traffic with no stops. Got out and there was a 6-inch piece of rebar in the sidewall of my Michelin Defender tire. The service stop has a garage there and the guy couldn't believe the damage and said "This is a nice tire!" haha, I laughed... then I cried, it was a nice tire
He didn't have the tire and I started calling while he put the compact spare on for me. Nobody had it for some reason including Costco etc. I did finally get a Ford dealership about 10 miles away that had it and was open for another 2 hours in the afternoon. We put all three kids, the labrador retriever, and all the luggage, fishing gear etc that had been packed nicely on people's laps, stacked to the ceiling, etc in the car and booked it over there and had the tire replaced. (Answer to the question above about what you do with stuff, you suffer for the less than 20-mile limp to a place for a full repair/replace)If we didn't have the spare tire it would have been a tow to the dealer for $$$ and maybe we would have had to overnight as they closed. I'll add that the same scenario probably is true with the spare if I missed the exit for the service station and we wound up on the side of the NJ turnpike waiting for roadside or a tow truck to change it.
I will miss the full empty well for storage, but will put a few things I keep there now with the tire and I will have a standing rule that nobody is to jack up the car and try to change it or stand next to the highway, but it will be there so that someone else to change to get out of the situation and to a tire shop.
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