Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What’s the furthest/fastest you ever rolled on the donut

chit my stepson drove around on one for weeks

Years ago a friend rolled on one for a couple weeks but only back & forth to work which wasn't very far. I never had a vehicle with a spare like that and don't think I ever would.

When I was a teenager my dad had an 89 Nissan pickup with 5 speed manual. It had a flat and we had to put the donut spare on. I loved it because I could power break it and do Smokey burnouts much easier with that little dinky tire on. One evening of that grenaded the spider gears in the rear end. We had to change out the entire rear axle.

What happens in 18 months?

FREEEEDOMMM!!!!!

Never used one myself.
One night I was cruising down 81 in the right lane and saw 4 way flashers a long ways back in the left lane. I was going about 65 or 70, flow of traffic.
They caught and passed me with a donut spare on the right front.
At least they thought it'd be safer with the flashers.
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They prob’ly field-tested them at 100mph and a few thousand miles when they invented em. So if you cratered a tire out past Fort Stockton or somewhere late at night, I expect one could roll on the donut till morning, long as it wasn’t on the drive wheel.

I don't use 'em on my truck at all, since the spare is full sized, but I have used them when necessary on a car. No more than about 50mph, and no further than I have to.
However, I did build a trailer in California with hub spindles for full sized car tires, not trailer tires. I then when to the local "you-pull-it" wrecking yard and picked up a dozen free donut tires on rims to fit. They come in with every vehicle, and take up space the wrecking yard would rather use for parts that sell. They gave 'em away for free, so I had free tires for the life of the trailer.

Realistically, how many drivers today know which end of the car is the drive end? I'll bet less than 10% of the drivers know to put a donut on the right end.

Only once - and it was about 40 miles total (wife's car).. Nice thing about a truck is that it has a full-sized spare tire..

I do now, but I’ve never used a donut on a rear wheel drive vehicle, I just moved a tire up from in back if the flat was in front, put the donut on in back.

Do you own anything that isn't a complete POS?

See them all too often around here, people going 80 mph on the expressways with them!

There was a duo staring at a flat tire outside my house the other day. First I walked past but after a couple more beers I walked outside to find them still staring at the tire. I asked "Do you need help?"

You'd have thought I just walked off Mt. Sinai with some stone tablets.

I've driven several hundred miles on one when I've had a flat on a trip in the middle of the night with no place to get it fixed. I didn't slow down either, regular interstate speed until I got home.

They're not going to mess up your differential either, that's BS. Maybe it would wear out the clutches if you put one on a 68 chevelle with positraction but it's not going to hurt your Honda Civic.

My daughter had to drive from Palmer to Fairbanks on one several years ago. A Sunday and no open shops. She set the cruise at the spare tire speed limit and rolled 300+ miles. The good thing is she increased her MPG by more than 30%.

The Highlander we bought in January had one. I bought a full size rim on ebay and had a tire mounted on it for our spare.

Nobody in my family rolls on a donut optional vehicle.

Buy a rim and a tire.

Then again, if you can't afford four decent tires to begin with, this probably isn't an option.

Last week, my wife blew a tire about 9 pm in Salida Colorado. No tire stores open, so we drive the 77 miles back home and then another 30 to Colorado Springs the next day. I stopped twice to snug up the lug nuts.

Put 4 donuts on and you got a Lowrider.