Re: Spare Wheel
Originally Posted by
Missy
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Run flats
No tin of anything in the car, just drive it to the nearest tyre place, job done
When the nearest service or roadhouse is 250km away? I think not.
I had a Mitsubishi Colt that had one of those space saver Wheel/tyres, if I had known I would have had second thoughts about buying the car but it never occurred to me to check.
As it happened the only puncture I had was close to home but I still had to get the NRMA out to change the wheel because the garage had done the nuts up with a rattle gun so I couldn't get them off. Then I had to drive at 80kph to a tyre dealer as the original tyre was a write off. The space saver wouldn't have lasted 10 minutes on a dirt road.
As an aside that was the first puncture I have had in nearly 60 years of motoring and I now check all the wheel nuts after a tyre change or service - they are invariably too tight to be undone with a normal wheel brace.
BTW a lot of 4WDs carry two spare wheels