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Neither my Porsche or Audi have spares and they are a better ride. Neither my Lamborghini nor my motorcycle have spares. My 77 Cordoba had a spare in the trunk, but the damn trunk deck completely rusted out on me, and the spare went whizzing down Interstate 75 into oncoming traffic at about 80 miles an hour. Pretty sure it took out an RV from Michigan. I saw a great big fireball in the rear view mirror. Oh well.🤷♂️
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Most can't change one anyway
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So, what's AAA going to do out on the road with no spare?
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So, what's AAA going to do out on the road with no spare? Laugh at you for knowing you had no spare and still hitting the road unprepared?
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For many years, when I would get a new car or truck, the first thing I did was to get home and practice changing a tire; making sure all the necessary stuff was with it to do the job.. Now that I'm closer to 'ancient', AND the spare tire for my truck is a helluva lot closer to 100#+, I keep a 3/4" impact driver in the stowage along with the proper sized socket. Truck comes with a hydraulic jack so that's one item I don't have to add. 
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 Grand daughter has a 2021 Kia, no nothing! No spare tire, no jack, no wheel wrench! End of rant. did she have a 12v air compressor
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Dont worry about it. It will get stolen before there's a flat.
Kias and Hyundais are the most stolen. Too easy to break into and start.
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Dont worry about it. It will get stolen before there's a flat.
Kias and Hyundais are the most stolen. Too easy to break into and start. That's not entirely true or false. They are not the most stolen, but could be the easiest. Someone's got to be hard up to steal one of those.
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles. So they should wait and have someone put their chains on now too? Maybe have someone pump fuel, bring back full service at filling stations.
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These posts are all playing in to sympathize with the OP and his dumbfukk family’s poor decisions
Don’t even carry a spare…it’s too dangerous to rescue yourself on 20ft of emergency lane plus gravel shoulder
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles. He should have found a safer place to install chains. NEVER work on a car with your legs sticking out on an interstate exit ramp. Something bad could happen.
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Wife's 2018 BMW 540i, no spare, runflats. Just put on a set of Michelins, about $1300.00 for the set, and that was a good price. 19" runflats ain't cheap.
But, I can't remember the last time I had to change a tire on the road. Been lucky I guess, I've always checked my vehicles visually before driving, and the late cars will let you know if a tire is low on start-up.
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If an individual needed a strong legal defense for the genocide of Methodists, I’d call Wabigoon to the stand and let him speak for 30 minutes. Holy schit!!! LMFAO!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Arrrrrrgh...
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I'm waiting on the correct wheel size. None of your offspring can read the sidewall of a tire??? Tell them to snap a pic and send it to your phone. LOL I can barely read the damn sidewall, bifocals and bending over, crap lighting, crud on tire. Isn't that info on the sticker on door ? Heaven forbid one just go to the web and type in car by year and model, trim level and get the factory wheel size. Theres usually some basement dweller or Brit (both?) that will geek out over the factory spec and tell you your wheelbearings or suspension will fall apart if you change anything. Those type are all over the import forums. Psssst... They put them sticker thingamabobs inside the drivers door frame... Except kia,s..... 🥴🥴🥴🤣🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🤣🥴🥴🥴 I'm gonna go watch modern marvels. Show is about flat tires!!! argh?
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles. He should have found a safer place to install chains. NEVER work on a car with your legs sticking out on an interstate exit ramp. Something bad could happen. Absolurely! I think he spun out on the uphill exit ramp. Of course, the intelligent thing to do would have been pull into the rest stop he passed a 1/2 mile earlier to put chains on. After dealing with many, many truck drivers over the last twenty years. I would not expect a lot of them to take the intelligent action. There a lot of bright, professiona l drivers on the road. There are also o lot of idiots. Corporations have to regulate for the lowest common denominator.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Dammit, all this talk of flats.
I walked out of work last night to the right rear rim of the Accord on the pavement. I have owned the car about a year and a half. The donut had air then, it does not now.
A coworker gave me and the tire a ride 1/2 mile to the Schwabbs and they fixed the flat. Bad valve stem.
Second tire I have changed in about thirty years.
I put one of those 12 V air pumps in the g daughters car. I need to get one for mine and for Momma's.
Of course Mama ain't gonna need to change no flat. She has a cell phone to call me, or a son, or two SILs who would each be eager to assist.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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I got a call that two college boys on the way to software engineer intern summer job have a flat tire and do not know how to change the tire.
While I was changing the tire, I told them a lie.
I said that the miniature spare tire was "the tire of shame" and no girl would have sex with them.
The two boys were virgins and worried all day.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles. He should have found a safer place to install chains. NEVER work on a car with your legs sticking out on an interstate exit ramp. Something bad could happen. Well, DUH!
Ex- USN (SS) '66-'69
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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!
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Working on a rig, on the side of the road:
A few years ago, in a heavy snow storm, I84 exit into Ontario Or. A truck w/ trailer and pup pulled to the side on the cloverleaf exit ramp to place chains.
Driver was on his knees working under the truck when another like rig from the same company came up the ramp.
The second truck ran over the first driver's ankles and feet with several axles. The driver of the second truck never even knew he had hit his coworker. The cops chased him down on the far side of town.
It has been a few years, but I think the first driver lost both feet.
There might be a reason professionals are paid to sit and wait for service vehicles. He should have found a safer place to install chains. NEVER work on a car with your legs sticking out on an interstate exit ramp. Something bad could happen. Absolurely! I think he spun out on the uphill exit ramp. Of course, the intelligent thing to do would have been pull into the rest stop he passed a 1/2 mile earlier to put chains on. After dealing with many, many truck drivers over the last twenty years. I would not expect a lot of them to take the intelligent action. There a lot of bright, professiona l drivers on the road. There are also o lot of idiots. Corporations have to regulate for the lowest common denominator. I drove over the road for 8 years. Yes, some of the CDL boys are real dumb asses.
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