When you get a puncture these days, generally its a massive inconvenience but you should have all the tools in your car to get you going. Or at least, thats the theory. If you have a car that is supplied with a spare wheel, Great! Pop that on and away you go! However, more and morw cars are coming with puncture repair kits. There are two main reasons for this.
1. To save weight in the car so your not lugging around a heavy spare wheel you will potentially never use.
2. To save cost of not having to supply an entire spare wheel that will potentially never get used.
Below is the reason that you should always tick the option to have a spare wheel in the car.
The jack barely fit under the car, i had to dig a groove to fit it under there.
Repair kits DO NOT fix this!
Thankfully i never fitted coil-overs or this would be supporting the front of my car!
So yeah, I managed to crack an alloy wheel. Massive rock + narrow road + oncoming traffic. It was either plough into oncoming car, plough into tree lined ditch or drive over large rock and hope i didn't break the car. I chose the rock, and it did. needless to say it could have been worse.
There will be an upcoming YouTube video of this debacle because I had time to kill while being rescued.
And that is why you always ask for a spare tyre!
