Spare Tire

msmith1199 wrote:

hpdrver wrote:
We carry a spare unmounted tire with our motor home as we have done in our previous motor homes. We have Coach net service but have never called them. Is it difficult for them to find roadside service to mount a tire on a wheel on the side of the road with?

I once pulled into a Burger King for lunch and got my food and ate in the car. When I parked I noticed a large two axle truck near by with a flat tire out one of the outter duals. It was a larger motorhome sized truck. The truck tire service guy had just arrived as I started eating. Before I was done eating he had the new tire mounted and the jack out and was packing his tools away. He had mounted the new tire without even removing the old wheel from the truck. Jacked it up, used pry tools to remove the old tire, used the same tools to put the tire back on, set the bead and put air in and they were ready to go. I was quite amazed how easy and quick it was for him to change out the tire. The only one that would be more difficult would be an inner dually.