On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:13:13 PM UTC, SteveW wrote:
On 08/01/2013 15:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 08/01/13 15:45, charles wrote:

In article , Muddymike

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"whisky-dave" wrote in message

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On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:48:59 AM UTC, Tim Watts wrote:

On Tuesday 08 January 2013 01:54 brass monkey wrote in uk.d-i-y:











WTF is a spare wheel?







A useful thing cars used to have...



But just how useful, sure on cars where it was needed but on todays

cars. Do you remmeber the days when you had to have someone walk in

front of your car carry/waving a flag. They were necessary too in them

days. ;-)







So what do you do when you get a puncture miles from anywhere with no

mobile telephone signal?



Wait for someone to pass by. But seriously, how often have you had a

puncture in the last few years? In the 60s, I used to have them

regularly.

My current car - 11 years old - has only needed me to fit the spare

once

in 114,000 miles.



Only tow time sin the last ten years were a potho9le - only a mile from

home, drive it ion the flat. Wheel was destroyed anyway.



Then a 'Green' couple stuck a knife in the sidewall of the land rover.



Had to change the wheel and get a new one fitted.



That is essentially it.



few slow punctures - that's the pint - a tubeless tyre with a nail in it

doesn't go down instantly. It takes a knife or a pothole to do that.



Time to get it pumped up and take to the nearest tyre fitter.



There are plenty of potholes!



I have also been driving or a passenger in cars (with tubeless tyres)

when all of the following have happened: had a tyre wrecked by hitting a

dark hose off a tanker, with a nice metal end; driven over the remains

of an entire box of nails that had fallen off a truck (luckily

puncturing one rear tyre badly and missing the other three, plus the two

caravan tyres - especially as we were hurrying back for a ferry home);

had a blowout on the motorway; come back to the car miles from home at

two in the morning and found a flat tyre with a large bolt through it;

similarly with a screw at home when setting out for work. In all cases a

quick wheel change with no more than 15 minutes delay - at least half

would not be "fixable" with the modern foam emergency repair, causing

unnecessary delay, frustration and extra cost (missed ferry, late for

work, etc.)



The modern trend for no spare is very poor.

Not being a driver I can;t really comment but if cars are required to carry spares of anything I't give me the idea that something will go wrong.

As we;re in the DIY group I assume most have spare batteries for drills but who carried a spare drill and why not if you don't.







SteveW