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> My friend was driving and looked a the flat front tire and said "I'm glad I have a spare". I look at the flat back tire and said "Unless you have two, we're s
by _fat_santa 5y ago
> My friend was driving and looked a the flat front tire and said "I'm glad I have a spare". I look at the flat back tire and said "Unless you have two, we're still going to need assistance.
I did this one time. Ran over a pothole and bottomed out. As I'm replacing my front tire I look to my rear tire and see that it's also flat. That wasn't even the cherry on top. At that point I had my front wheel off and tried putting on the spare anyways.
I had a Kia Stinger GT and the GT version has Brembo brakes which have a much larger caliper than the regular version. Well QA at Kia never thought to check if their spare tire actually fits with the larger caliper. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.
- hammock 5y agoHow do you like the Stinger? I saw one of those the other day and did a double take on the Kia logo.
- zubiaur 5y agoBeen there, with a GM with a similar issue. The manual stated something about putting the spare on a rear, then, taking the good rear and putting it in the front. The rotors on the rear were smaller and could accommodate the spare. Obviously a moot point if one has two blown tires.
- mcguire 5y agoIf you can't fix the bug, document the work-around.
- cantsingh 5y agoSame situation. I usually pride myself on having good situational awareness, but something about the shock of suddenly having a flat on a major highway took it out of me. I replaced my front right tire, pulled back into the slow lane, only to finally realize my back right tire had also been blown out. I called roadside assistance, left the car there, and Uber'd home. That was a rough day.