Car problems

@lovelywarpedlemon look at my reply and you'll see one of your age group agreeing! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@DeWayfarer wow you're obsessed 😂 ok now your turn ...........

@lovelywarpedlemon
depends on the tire .... i have a full size tire as my spare and my truck came that way

@ninalanyon I paid under £100 each last time I bought new tyres, and that was not ever so long ago; though I expect their prices have risen considerably recently. Mine though is just an ordinary Renalt Kangoo; not some high-performance thing needing racing-quality tyres.

I've never found the space, insignificant extra weight and maintenance of a spare, a problem. It's certainly far less a problem than being stuck far from home by lacking a spare!

I had no choice but to change that broken tyre on the motorway. I forget which side of the car was affected, but I pulled over as far as possible. I used to carry a piece of thick plywood to place under the jack if necessary.

Now, thanks to one of the most crass decisions ever made by Department of Transport theoreticians, many of the busiest stretches of the motorways have no hard-shoulder. It's been turned into a lane, supposedly to reduce congestion on the motorway. Won't it just move it to the roads off the M-way? There has been so much opposition to it that the Government has paused extending the scheme to do what the DoT should have done in the first place - think about it!

So if a tyre bursts you've somehow to limp along on the disintegrating rubber and the wheel rim to the next refuge - assuming if you are in an outer lane in heavy traffic you can pull over to it - possibly half a mile or more away.

@ArishMell My tyres are 245/45R19, speed index V (240 km/h). A bit bigger than on your Kangoo. I actually have driven the car at 240 km/h on the autobahn, exhilarating but not very cost effective as air resistance is the dominant loss factor and it goes up with the fourth power of the speed!

@ArishMell 450£ for 4 tyres mind you there on a d2 td5

@froggtongue 30 miles should b ok on a spare

@froggtongue @Lilnonames right! It should be fine for that distance.

That's what the tire guy told me. He only brought a donut which i already had. So it was useless to have waited. I'll have to get a full tire tomorrow.

@Souls yup. I would have thought much less miles than that, but yours sound about right now.

@Elizabeth28 hm. I waited on the tire guy and he said i was fine. So i'll get a proper tire tomorrow when i have the time.

@pdockal well what would u do if the spare tire got a flat

@smileylovesgaming
Depends
Might use fix a flat
Might call a tow
Id probably plug the original tire and not be on the spare
But if i was on the spare id probably plug it
Or pull over and call a friend and go to shop to plug both tires

@smileylovesgaming i see your point to get another spare tire as soon as possible.

Hav som fun, I learned thru various other means the little of mechanics that I know. It's not taught in drivers' education. Are people getting lazy? Perhaps. I mean if you specify which group of people. You're not talking all the people in the world, are you? That's a mighty big net to cast.

@froggtongue no some folks would rather pay than do it themselves

@Havesomefun2 Yes. I would tend to agree that it's a factual statement regarding some.

@Pretzel depends on the tire .... i have a full size tire as my spare and my truck came that way

@pdockal yup - you are correct - I had in my mind one of those mini-donut things -

if it's full size it's good for thousands of miles