We have had our MH for 21 years this April. Have had only one flat tire ever. We were on a county road in southern Indiana. We have roadside service so we called them nearest service was in Louisville told them we had a spare and it was already on a rim. Our rim was destroyed before we could get to a safe spot on narrow road. It took them an hour and a half to get to us. The guy said he spent an hour trying to find a 19" tire for us with no luck in Louisville or southern Indiana. He had it changed in no time at all. But we now had no spare. We were headed to south East Tennessee . We did finish our week long trip with no problem. Now DH is a maintenance freak and this was our first trip on brand spanking new tires, cause we change every 6 to 7 years. Come to find out guy who installed them the week before had balanced them with beads BUT did not replace the valves on any of the tires as required so that the bead can't get caught in the valve and creates a slow leak. That is exactly what happened. So we are firm believers in a spare on a rim. That said we just bought a second MH a 2008 class C. It has no spare. We have replaced the tires first thing, but it's a Ford 450 with 16 inch tire and wheels so we feel we have a fairly good chance of a tire and or rim being more available. The C is for our daughter and son,with their families to join us camping more and it is working??
