spare tires

Bordercollie wrote:
Carrying a heavy spare wheel with tire loose in the cargo compartment may not be save in the event of an accident. Best to have a secure mount for the spare. We're lucky that our 2004 rig came with spare wheel and tire mounted in the cargo bay.

You need a heavy duty jack and wheel nut removal wrench with an extension pipe for leverage plus knowledge about safe use jacks on the side of the road. There is also danger of being rear-ended. If you are not strong enough to handle, remove, and replace RV tires
safely, better leave it to an emergency road service.

A 110v 1/2" impact driver is about $170. and a 20 ton bottle jack is about $50. Why hassle with a lug wrench and a pipe when you have 110v outlet. You can also get rear ended while you sit on the side of the road waiting for help. If it's a rear tire than you can get off the road easily, if it's the front not so much. An argument can be made either way, I would rather fix it and be on my way.

Carrying a heavy spare wheel with tire loose in the cargo compartment may not be save in the event of an accident. Best to have a secure mount for the spare. We're lucky that our 2004 rig came with spare wheel and tire mounted in the cargo bay.

You need a heavy duty jack and wheel nut removal wrench with an extension pipe for leverage plus knowledge about safe use jacks on the side of the road. There is also danger of being rear-ended. If you are not strong enough to handle, remove, and replace RV tires
safely, better leave it to an emergency road service.

If I get a flat I'm changing it myself. I carry a floor jack, spare, 1/2" impact driver, a tire plug kit and a small 110v air compressor and beer.

I think this all depends on what you want to be ready to deal with. We have been places that you could be sitting by the side of the road undisturbed for an hour or more. There was no cell coverage. If I have to change a tire, I can do it. Mine are only about 85# each.

Matt

when I bought my first Class A it came with a spare but no jack. I asked were the jack was. the reply "the road side service operator will be carrying it". made sense to me.
bumpy

I made use of the spare on my motorhome on the last trip due to a rear tire giving up the ghost. (The tread separated and came clear off the tire. It wasn't a blow-out or a flat as the treadless tire still held air.) I had the "pleasure" of changing it on the shoulder of an interstate highway, which I safely managed. I could have called AAA, of course, but I think it would have taken longer overall--perhaps a lot longer--for them to get someone who could come and do the job.

If you feel secure in changing the front tire on a class C, there's no reason you couldn't as easily change one of the dually rears as well. It only requires a somewhat larger minimum jack rating (and you probably would want one higher than the minimum regardless for margin and ease of jacking) and, if it's the inner wheel, the temporary removal of the outer to get to the inner. The basic process and, at least on the Ford chassis, the size of the wheel and tightness of the lug nuts is identical.

I had two blow outs in 11 years on previous class C. It had a spare
mounted under neath. Called road service both times. 1 1/2 hrs once and 3 hrs other time to have fixed. Hate to think how long with out a
spare. Traded that Rv this past June and new one did not come with
spare so took spare from old one and had mounted on bumper. Did have to add 8in extension on hitch so tow bar didn't hit tire on turns but have worked out fine. As previously stated , at least carry a tire.

Thanks for your input. You confirmed my thoughts.

I would always carry at least an unmounted spare. that way when you are in armpit, WVA, and have an issue and the man the service sends out has a 7 year old tire off sized for $400 you won't be sunk.
bumpy