Flat Tire

[dickfoster]

Both of my kids are grown. They both (girl and boy) were taught how to change a tire, change oil and filter, replace the battery or jump-start the car, etc. I don't care if they never use that information again, they KNOW how to do it.
I refused to raise a "cripple." I figured if they're gonna drive an automobile, they should have a basic knowledge and skill set to keep it on the road.
JMHO

Just that simple bit of info could save their life someday.

I remember when some folks didn't even know how to pump their own gas because all the stations did it for you. Plus they cleaned your windshield, checked your oil, sweeped out your car and gave you a dish or some green stamps. These days you're lucky to make it out of the station after a fill up with your shirt and your first born.

 

[3930dave]

Even on street vehicles, I've never been a fan of mini-donuts - I only like 'em as snacks at Fall Fairs :licking:

Many people wouldn't bother with an external carrier, but that would be my preference, esp. on an AWD vehicle. Nice that you can bypass the system with a fuse, but I wonder how many You are a Bus owners actually know that trick ?

RASTA 4X4 - News

May be prettier options out there..... just went looking for a commercial offering to see if any existed....

Liking the pan-head screw approach posted here.

I've used slime in road vehicles - worked OK at supplier spec'd dose levels.

Rgds, D.

 

[JRobyn]

I sent one of my daughters to a 2-day driving school. Not just defensive driving; performance driving at Road Atlanta and on their wet skid pad. It has saved her life, or at least serious injury more than once. I never could get my other daughter to make time to do it. Now I worry about her driving constantly. When we were kids (14, 15) we had the advantage of going to visit kin in MN where learning to drive/slide/skid on slick surfaces was simple - just drive out on the lakes.

 

[reb]

I would not even mount one of those things must less move the vehicle with one on it. As Nader called the Corvair, "unsafe at any speed" and this is much truer of those ridiculous and dangerous things than it was for the Corvair. I'm surprised they haven't been sued out of existence by now.

What do use, a full size tire? I do not think I can get a full size tire in the spare tire well on my Honda Accord.[/QUOTE]

A full-size spare fit in my wife's '09 Civic. It raised the cover a little bit, tho.

 

[BHD]

I do not know where you live that you do not have flat tires,

I ended up buying a tire machine, one day I had 4 flats on the 4x4 pasture pickup in one day all different tires,

this winter been doing good no flats for a few months, but in the fall, had a flat on the tractor rear, there fun to fix, had a few flats on the car, and a few on the s10, the county does not grade the rock off the road and a lot are destroyed by rock bruising,

drive gravel/dirt roads, off road in the pastures checking fences, cactus is hard on tires, and then bolts and nails and wire on the roads, do not help much either,
(when I lived in Wyoming up by Gillette, they "graveled" the road with crushed shale, and it would split and cut tires,

life with out flats is a unheard of thing out here,

 

[newbury]

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<snip>When we were kids (14, 15) we had the advantage of going to visit kin in MN where learning to drive/slide/skid on slick surfaces was simple - just drive out on the lakes.

I grew up in Northern Vermont. Learned to drive on the lake while Ice fishing when I was YOUNG. Have wonderful memories of later when I was about 20 with a '69 VW bug spending many hours on frozen lakes just spinning around between snow banks.

In Northern Virginia I used to take my children up to the school parking lot drive cars and learn to slip and slide in the snow until they outlawed it. The best way to learn to drive in terrible conditions is to drive in terrible conditions when there is no chance of damage.

As far as fixing flats, I once ran a retread on a B150 van. On a short trip to the amusement park it started leaking like a sieve. Put in 4 cans of fix a flat and it was leaking out cracks in the sidewalls. Drove it another 10 miles and got the tire replaced.