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Old 10-17-2013 | 03:00 AM
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I think my spare should definitely be bigger, I feel like if I had drove it like that I would be only 1 inch off the ground:-P

And I had 2 use 2 jacks since the one that it came with didn't go higher to put on the good tire-.-




Old 10-17-2013 | 03:23 AM
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Well, the spare is meant to be a "spare". less than 50kph driving etc. If it got you where you were going then it did it's job.
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Plus u have to inflate it
Old 10-17-2013 | 03:37 AM
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Be happy you didnt get a flat at altitude.

Whole 'nother procedure.
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Are you serious or is this a joke post?
Old 10-17-2013 | 10:53 AM
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Are you serious or is this a joke post?
Nope its serious..lol yea I'm glad I was close to work too. I had to use the black jack to put on the new tire since I didn't have enough clearance with the one I had:-D:-D
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Like Mark said, it doesn't look inflated.
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Originally Posted by Hollisterkiid92
Nope its serious..lol yea I'm glad I was close to work too. I had to use the black jack to put on the new tire since I didn't have enough clearance with the one I had:-D:-D

Did you inflate it?

Did you even know it's not inflated when it's stored in the car?

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Yess I know that, but unfortunately I didn't have one. My buddy took me to get my tire..lol I just put it on for safety while I was gone
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Originally Posted by Hollisterkiid92
Yess I know that, but unfortunately I didn't have one. My buddy took me to get my tire..lol I just put it on for safety while I was gone
Ok. You put the uninflated spare on to keep the car from falling (or being pushed) off the jack while you were getting the tire fixed.

You're right that there isn't a lot of clearance there. The tire is considerably bigger when it's properly inflated. I was surprised how much bigger it was.
There's a recent thread about a spare with tread seperation that has pics of it inflated.
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Originally Posted by Wisconsin Joe

Ok. You put the uninflated spare on to keep the car from falling (or being pushed) off the jack while you were getting the tire fixed.

You're right that there isn't a lot of clearance there. The tire is considerably bigger when it's properly inflated. I was surprised how much bigger it was.
There's a recent thread about a spare with tread seperation that has pics of it inflated.
Yea I was kinda scared that it might fall of the cat, I know it was lifted properly but its just that I left it alone for the time I was out fixing my tire.

I should really buy a compresser huh, and to make it worse the tools to unbolt the nuts didn't fit!!! I pretty much borrowed everyhing from my buddy's challenger..lol




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