Compact Spares

[Kneale Brownson]

I grew up, and to some extent still live, in a rural area where everything 
like garages used to close up at 5:30 p.m.  weeknights and were not open 
weekends.  If your tire went flat Friday evening, you might not get your 
"nearest" service until Monday.  If you commute, as I do for 70 miles a day 
during the winter,  you want something for a spare other than the POS 
midget tire Audi provides.


At 11:15 AM 01/20/2001 -0700, Al Powell wrote:

>Interesting to hear the ongoing grumble about compact spares.  I heard it 
>first in 1979 when selling cars...and seems some people just don't like 
>them.  I have never understood why, unless they live down six miles of bad 
>road.  The compact spares work just fine for their intended purpose, which 
>is to get you to the next place your tire can be fixed.  I've used them - 
>both the compact spare on my 200 and an inflatable spare on my Datsun 
>280ZX - and they've always worked perfectly.
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>Now, if I DID live at the end of a long country road paved with rocks the 
>size of my fist, I might think about adding a full-size spare.  OTOH, if I 
>had a flat at home, I'd have spare cars and compressed air handy, so then 
>again, I probably wouldn't.
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>Cheers - Al Powell
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