I would not leave home without it...........The Under the Truck spare tire kit would not fit with the Magnaflow catback.....or I would have gone that route.
Does anyone carry a spare tire and wheel as a spare for trips? If so, is it a 19 or 20 inch...or is there an alternative?
Trailblazer/envoy 17x7" wheel with a 225/65-17 tire will be the ideal combo to carry. There are no aftermarke5t wheels that size, so you are forced into buying a used wheel. All road wheels were alunimum and all spares were steel. If you pay more than $75 from a recycler, you're getting ripped off.
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I just bought a wheel in Maine for $60 plus a couple cans of spray paint and now getting ready to give the wheel a ride to Florida and then place a order for the spare kit with Mike.
Trailblazer/envoy 17x7" wheel with a 225/65-17 tire will be the ideal combo to carry. There are no aftermarke5t wheels that size, so you are forced into buying a used wheel. All road wheels were alunimum and all spares were steel. If you pay more than $75 from a recycler, you're getting ripped off.
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Mike
Thanks Mike! How is everything in PHX? I remember meeting you at GHL a couple years back. Jeff and Brian were buds when I lived back in the Valley. You might remember my white Ron Fellows Z06 Vette parked in front of their palatial establishment. Hope you are doing well.
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Thanks everyone! Once again the community has come up with all the answers. Don't know what I'd do if I had to learn all this stuff by trial and error.
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Thanks everyone! Once again the community has come up with all the answers. Don't know what I'd do if I had to learn all this stuff by trial and error.
You would probably be spending a lot of time trying to get people together to start a web site to track and catalog all the work you were doing. Thank goodness someone else did that long ago.
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Trailblazer/envoy 17x7" wheel with a 225/65-17 tire will be the ideal combo to carry. There are no aftermarke5t wheels that size, so you are forced into buying a used wheel. All road wheels were alunimum and all spares were steel. If you pay more than $75 from a recycler, you're getting ripped off.
Spare tire, we don't need no stinken spare tire! That ought to get a few people going as we have discussed to pros and cons of this before
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I finally got around to the spare tire issue this week.
All together, a little less than $90.
(used wheel for $35, used 235/65-17 Gooodyear Wrangler tire mounted and balanced for $36.50, one can of rustoleum black paint for $2.97, and a tire cover for $12.95.)
Now I'll NEVER have a flat tire.....and that's Grrrrreat
We can take our chances. Without a spare roadside will tow the SSR somewhere. I'd like to avoid that. And the trip is over. Plus if you get towed to a tire place they might have to order a new tire.
Also, I have a patch kit and a good quality compressor. Fuzzy helped me when I had a screw in the tire 12 hours from home (Maggie Valley to Pa). Plan B would have been to install the spare.
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Spare tire
Isn't that the reason for roadside assistance
"We can take our chances. Without a spare roadside will tow the SSR somewhere. I'd like to avoid that. And the trip is over. Plus if you get towed to a tire place they might have to order a new tire.
Also, I have a patch kit and a good quality compressor. Fuzzy helped me when I had a screw in the tire 12 hours from home (Maggie Valley to Pa). Plan B would have been to install the spare." (quote X Man)
This will definitely delay your trip at 9PM ! Then, maybe there's no place that has a new tire in stock, maybe until After the week-end. It kinda makes carrying a spare more realistic....
It changed my mind about roadside assistance. RADSSR with a prototype saved my azz that night! Bought 2 kits right after that. Many thanks to the folks who brought this to life and the Fanatics who install them..... my .02..
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This will definitely delay your trip at 9PM ! Then, maybe there's no place that has a new tire in stock, maybe until After the week-end. It kinda makes carrying a spare more realistic....
It changed my mind about roadside assistance. RADSSR with a prototype saved my azz that night! Bought 2 kits right after that. Many thanks to the folks who brought this to life and the Fanatics who install them..... my .02..
Did you plug the tire? What happened there? Factory defect...old age...serious burnout?
Call AAA from 1-40 between Gallop and Albuquerque and let me know how it turns out. Flats have never happened in a convenient location for me. I'd rather not be at the mercy of AAA or Bubba, the wrecker driver.
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There are places that you just don't want to be disabled.
I tore up a tire at 10:30 on a Friday night, on the Barry Bridge from PA to NJ. Limped into the huge, nearly empty, employee's parking lot. Called a buddy to come and get me, because I had another tire at home, a few miles away. The bridge authority police informed me if I left the vehicle, even for a few minutes, they would tow and impound it.
The radio dispatcher for the bridge police told me his pickup broke down in the same parking lot, so he left it till his next shift. When he returned to work they told him if he did it again, they would tow it and fire him.
Since then I carry a spare, jack, lug-wrench, and a screwdriver to pop the hubcap. I haven't needed them, but when I bought a new snowblower with a three year warranty it didn't snow for three years. Just sayin'...
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I have had four flats.
Twice, I wasted, effectively, 1/2 a day waiting for the flat-bed tow, and my SSR was down several days waiting for my tire to be delivered for replacement.
I purchased a spare tire kit much like the spare tire kit Mike in AZ currently sells.
Both times I spent 30 minutes changing my flats, and had use of my SSR. Once I was not even in cell phone range (upper Highway 33), the other time was a midnight sidewall shredding on the 101...
Since the days when the first space saver "doughnut" spares were put into new vehicles, I've often wondered about one thing, which applies to the SSR spare tire kit also.
You're on a trip and your bed is loaded with luggage and other junk, and you have a flat tire that cannot be plugged or repaired.
You obviously remove the tire and wheel from the vehicle and then remove the spare from storage and place it on the SSR.
Now.....where do you put the 19", or 20" wheel and flat tire?
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Since the days when the first space saver "doughnut" spares were put into new vehicles, I've often wondered about one thing, which applies to the SSR spare tire kit also.
You're on a trip and your bed is loaded with luggage and other junk, and you have a flat tire that cannot be plugged or repaired.
You obviously remove the tire and wheel from the vehicle and then remove the spare from storage and place it on the SSR.
Now.....where do you put the 19", or 20" wheel and flat tire?
Put it on top of the load and run with the bed cover open until you get it fixed.
You can tie the cover down if you put a towel under a strap that pulls down to the tiedowns in the bed. I have done this with oversized loads before.
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Since the days when the first space saver "doughnut" spares were put into new vehicles, I've often wondered about one thing, which applies to the SSR spare tire kit also.
You're on a trip and your bed is loaded with luggage and other junk, and you have a flat tire that cannot be plugged or repaired.
You obviously remove the tire and wheel from the vehicle and then remove the spare from storage and place it on the SSR.
Now.....where do you put the 19", or 20" wheel and flat tire?
Don't waste your time on a donut tire.
If you carry a spare 17" or 19" tire and rim in the cargo compartment, there is enough room to replace that wheel and tire with the 19" or 20" tire that failed you, because you packed for the trip with a 19" spare.
If you buy goodies along the way, store them in the roof compartment, or have them shipped.
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FWIW... you can stow your rear 20in tire (now that it's FLAT) in Mike's carrier if you carefully jockey it into place with your feet while cranking it up into place. IT's FLAT now, so WTH. The stock 19 inch fully inflated will fit up there, too. The other option is to do as I first did and put it on the tailgate and have the State Trooper follow you down the shoulder to the next off-ramp. Now that I know what I know.... there's a whole Grip of room down there that you just didn't know was there! Besides, the 19, fully inflated is TOO WIDE to FIT into the roof compartment.
Bernie, Nike in Az, and UMPIRE13 have given me the confidence to travel 6K miles, one trip, and never give a FLAT one thought. See my avitar notes.... confidence....
70K mi and still driving forward !
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