So How's The Air In Your Spare?

480sparky · Jul 24, 2015

Have you checked it lately?

Have you ever checked it?

Good thing I make it part of my routine. Ended up with a flat this morning. If I was like most people, I'd have a perfectly good tire and rim, but no air in it. Half hour after pulling off the street into a parking lot, I was back on the road. A bit dirtier than normal, but at least back on the road.

So take time to check your spare, as well as whatever tools you'll need to change a tire out in the boonies. Sure, it sucks to have to do so, but it sure beats having to call a tow truck or tire service place and sit and wait.

Derrel · Jul 24, 2015

Good,sound advice.

ronlane · Jul 24, 2015

I don't check the air pressure in my spare but since it hangs on the back of my jeep, I do lean against it from time to time and know that it has air in it.

robbins.photo · Jul 24, 2015

480sparky said:
Have you checked it lately?

Have you ever checked it?

My spare what?

runnah · Jul 24, 2015

I once put 4 "donuts" on my subaru and played around in the snow, good fun.

480sparky · Jul 24, 2015

ronlane said:
I don't check the air pressure in my spare but since it hangs on the back of my jeep, I do lean against it from time to time and know that it has air in it.

I'd wager your Jeep will apply a tad bit more pressure than you are capable of.

runnah · Jul 24, 2015

480sparky said:
ronlane said:

I don't check the air pressure in my spare but since it hangs on the back of my jeep, I do lean against it from time to time and know that it has air in it.

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I'd wager your Jeep will apply a tad bit more pressure than you are capable of.

I'd wager that a tire isn't the only spare part you should be carrying if you drive a jeep.

PropilotBW · Jul 24, 2015

Bummer man! Flats stink!

ronlane · Jul 24, 2015

Runnah wins and is truly correct. The spare has enough air in it to get the job done. It's a cheaper wheel than the ones on the ground so at the very least, I wouldn't ruin the good wheel.

D-B-J · Jul 24, 2015

Glad to see this incident has deflated your confidence. You really seem to have an air-tight routine. Me? I'd just fall flat.

480sparky · Jul 24, 2015

Jeez. He shoots with Canon, and drives a Jeep.

j/k! I couldn't resist that one!

sm4him · Jul 24, 2015

Huh.

That reminds me. I wonder if I *have* a spare.
I'm just kidding. I know I do. I checked it, when I bought the car. In Dec. 2013. Haven't seen it since. :lol:

True confession that will make all the guys on here irritated with me:
Not only do I not know if my spare is properly inflated...I was driving home after visiting Mom at the rehab a few weeks ago. It was raining, and I hate driving in the rain. I kept feeling like my car was really wanting to hydroplane--at some point, I wondered if maybe one of my tires was low and that's why the car was seeming to want to go all over the place. So when I got home, I looked at the tires. They all looked good (no, I didn't check the actual pressure, mostly because I haven't had one of those little tire pressure gauges in about six months, since I ran over the one I had...). However, on further inspection, I realized that the problem was worse than low tire pressure. The two front tires were so threadbare that there were strands of metal poking through!

I did go the next morning and get new tires. And I swear I am not *usually* nearly that bad about checking stuff like that. Well, okay, yes I am. But I'm usually pretty good about having my SON keep everything checked out on my car. But he's been gone most of the summer, and I've been distracted.

table1349 · Jul 24, 2015

Mine is right where it should be. But then the spare even has a pressure sensor so if it were to go low it would tell me.

table1349 · Jul 24, 2015

480sparky said:
Have you checked it lately?

Have you ever checked it?

Good thing I make it part of my routine. Ended up with a flat this morning. If I was like most people, I'd have a perfectly good tire and rim, but no air in it. Half hour after pulling off the street into a parking lot, I was back on the road. A bit dirtier than normal, but at least back on the road.

So take time to check your spare, as well as whatever tools you'll need to change a tire out in the boonies. Sure, it sucks to have to do so, but it sure beats having to call a tow truck or tire service place and sit and wait.

Be honest, was it really that big a deal? I mean the tire was only flat on one side. The ride would only have been slightly uncomfortable 1/4 of the time. :laughing: