<VV> Doughnut Spare Tire

[James Davis]

For me, I would never change a tire when road service would respond in a
timely fashion (4 hours or less).  If you out in the county, about 40 miles
from a town, on a Friday or Saturday night you usually get, "I can get a
truck out there first thing Monday morning".  Also the Infinity Roadside
Service (used by Good Sam, Progressive insurance)  always ask is do you
have a mounted serviceable spare tire.  What do you do with the flat tire -
I throw it in the back of the truck, put in the engine compartment of the
Corsa or strap it on the trailer of the UltaVan   Over my 55 years and 7
months of driving Corvair powered vehicles, I have had 9 flat tires that I
can remember.  Two flats were changed by road service, but the rest were
changed by me because I could not get road service within 4 hours.


On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 11:32 AM Jim Becker via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> For years, I had this odd pattern of flat tires coming in streaks.  I'd
> have
> several over a moderate period of time, then hit a period with none.  I
> finally realized the flat tires were in sync with the local construction
> booms while the no-flat periods sync'ed with the construction busts.  The
> flats were evidently caused by construction debris that fell off the
> trucks.
> Since moving away from the Dallas area, I've only had 1 flat tire in over
> 5
> years.  Most of the time, I have discovered a soft tire while at home and
> been able to plug it at home without taking the tire off the car.
>
> There is one thing I have never understood about any of the variations of
> "space saver" tires.  The saved space doesn't do you any good unless you
> use
> it for something.  What happens when the day comes that you need to use
> the
> spare?  What do you do with the flat conventional tire you take off?  Do
> you
> toss it in the road ditch and abandon it?  Do you call AAA to haul it home
> for you?  Maybe a passenger will volunteer to hold it in their lap.
>
> Jim Becker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Sheridan via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2019 2:50 PM
> To: mark at noakes.com
> Cc: VirtualVairs AA
> Subject: Re:  Doughnut Spare Tire
>
> Wow! I been driving over 50 years and I don't think I've ever had a flat on
> the road.
>
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 12:26 PM mark--- via VirtualVairs <
> virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:
>
> > This must be one of those "your mileage may vary" things. We mostly run
> > top of line name brand tires on our non-Corvair vehicles. We average one
> > puncture a year, often at darn inconvenient times, and in the US though
> > we have AAA, they can take hours to respond (my wife had an event on her
> > Jeep that took 4 hours for them to pick it up...and no she wasn't out in
> > the sticks) so I don't use them for tires. I am not a fan of tire
> > sealers but use them if/when I have to.
> >
> > Mark N
> >
> > On 8/31/19 4:11 AM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> > > Punctures are evry rare with modern tires. I just carry one of those
> > > aerosol tire sealers instead of a spare.
> > >
> >
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