Traveling without a spare tire
Reaching out to those with experience. We are in planning stages to take our Jayco Greyhawk 29MV Class C to Fairbanks (about 12,000 miles round trip) from south Louisiana in mid May through June. ...
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Cooncatz wrote:
You would be foolish to take a RV to Alaska: through Canada and up the Alcan without a spare tire and other emergency equipment.
Never mind Alaska! This is stuff right here in the good old U.S. of A.:
1. We had an outside rear dual flat on our Class C in the Eastern U.S. and had to drive 5 miles on the remaining grossly-overloaded inside tire to get help.
2. Try getting a flat way out in the middle of nowhere at Dubinky Well in Utah. We were out there in our Class C, but thankfully those Michelin tires held up so we did not have any tire issues.
3. Once we were in the Oregon Outback at a spot where we had to travel 25 miles each way at only 7-10 MPH due to the roads. There were no cell signals way out there for normal equipment, but we had cellular signal boosting equipment on board our Class C so we could get one bar on our phones ... but probably no ERS would have ventured out there anyway.
4. A few months ago were in out in the Conneticut hill country in our Class C on Friday afternoon at the beginning of a 3-day holiday weekend when we experienced transmission problems. Good luck in that kind of situation ... right here in the U.S..
Yes - always carry a spare along plus other emergency equipment - whether going to Alaska or not. We even carry extensive tire repair equipment along for dealing with puncture holes without removing the tire from the RV ... along with a high power tire compressor, several blocks of wood, and a 12-ton jack. You never know what can happen when you're out and about in your rig.
