Groover wrote:
At 56 I am one of the younger guys that I have seen driving a class A and I consider myself to be in fairly decent shape. I have taken a 22.5" tire off for maintenance at home and it was a big job. Just taking 10 lug nuts off and torquing them all back to 600ft/lbs was work out with a 3' long wrench weighing about 10lbs. I can see why few people bother carrying a spare.
At 64 I can agree with most all you say above, we too started out in a Class A at about 53. Our previous rig was an Itasca Sunova. We had 19.5s. It came with a spare, but the spare was located in a side compartment on the driver side up under the bed. We did have a flat and needed to change it. At that time I used Road Service, only took 4 hours to get them out! and that was 10 miles from Annapolis, MD! I found it impossible to get teh tire back up into the compartment alone and in fact even with help i was a job. I built a carrier and mounted it on the tow hitch. Didn't do the Roadmaster pivot thing, rather I used an extension above the carrier and a spare come-a-long to lift the tire. Not being a Rear Engine this was acceptable. I am looking at buying the Roadmaster unit and carrying a spare on our new Tiffin RED. Hate to be out at the mercy of the local service provider. I bought and carried a 43" breaker bar, an impact wrench and a small scissors jack to support the breaker bar. On our new rig I am considering the Roadmaster unit as it allows access to the rear engine hatch. Still looking at mounted vs unmounted spare.
