Do I need to carry spare tire?

bluwtr49 wrote:

Rog & Nan wrote:
Our unit is 20 years old and it came with a spare tire mounted on a rim. Never had a flat until 8 years old and had tires replaced. First trip out front right tire went down on a county road in southern Indiana. Tow truck from west side of Louisvlle was almost 2 hours to arrive. He spent an hour trying to locate our size tire and rim even though we told him we had both. His experience told him it was probably old and not in good shape. He could not find a tire so brought his big rig to tow us in! To his surprise DH is a maintenance freak thus tire was in great shape and ready to go. We had destroyed the rim trying to get to the side of the road. Thus we needed both. He had us ready to go in under a half hour. The reason we got a flat was the guy at CW balanced the tires with beads but did not replace stem valves with proper valves so a bead got into valve and tire guickly deflated. Had another occurance returning to CW to get the right fix but this time it was an inside dually and we made it to CW ok. Have not had a problem since but our trip could have ended at that point had we not had a mounted spare. We certainly believe in carrying a mounted tire.

You were lucky that the wheel the spare was mounted on a wheel matching the one that was bad. It could have gone the other way and the spare would have been useless. You still would have to wait until the correct wheel was located.