Do you remember changing flat tires?

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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With better tires and triple A most haven't had to if ever, but some of you might remember having to jack up the car after straining to loosen those lug nuts...
 

The terminology is a little different and probably better in your case as we actually changed the wheel that the flat tire was on, if that is what you mean...
 

I've changed a lot of tires. In the early days when I was young and dumb, I use to buy used tires and drive them until they were bald. I remember one very dark night on a very lonely road I changed a tire entirely by feel in the dark because the batteries in my flashlight were dead.
 
I haven't changed one in 30+ years. I have had a few mornings when getting in my car I had a flat, but I had an electric air pump that would fill the tire and get me to a tire shop. That pump is the best investment I ever made. I would hate to change one at this point. I would have to read my manual on getting the thing lowered out of the tire well. Ha.
 
One time I drove the truck through the woods (with very worn tires to begin with) and got two flats at once. What's the probability of that? Had to take one flat to the shop and get a new one, then take the new one back out in the woods and change the other one. Truck was difficult to jack up in the woods too because the ground was so soft. Had to carry boards.
 
NancyNGA said:
One time I drove the truck through the woods (with very worn tires to begin with) and got two flats at once. What's the probability of that? Had to take one flat to the shop and get a new one, then take the new one back out in the woods and change the other one. Truck was difficult to jack up in the woods too because the ground was so soft. Had to carry boards.
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What a resourceful woman, albeit an unlucky one.
 
NancyNGA said:
One time I drove the truck through the woods (with very worn tires to begin with) and got two flats at once. What's the probability of that? Had to take one flat to the shop and get a new one, then take the new one back out in the woods and change the other one. Truck was difficult to jack up in the woods too because the ground was so soft. Had to carry boards.
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Good for you, Nancy! You're an inspiration to me. :)
 
I haven't had to change one for years. The worst one I had to do was on a busy road in Germany - on the way to Hamelin (as in The pied piper). In town, I was lucky to meet a man who worked as a translotor, and he directed me to a tyre depot where he assured me the owner was English. Unfortunately the owner was on vacation, so I had to explain in very poor German that I needed a new tyre. However, I got everything fixed OK at a very reasonable price.

It surprizes me that so many people have no idea how to change a wheel and have to wait for breakdown services to rescue them! Even more, it angers me that so many new cars have NO spare wheel at all.
 
Been a long time for me. But there was a time you could count on a flat a year at least. They finally outlawed retreads (not recaps) as buy the time they etched in the new treads the tire was dangerously thin. Tires, paints, cements and glues, and related products are much better these days.
 
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