On 11/30/04 11:22 AM, "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

> Tom Miller wrote:
> 
>> Who needs to
>> match spares these days?  Synchro not withstanding!
>> 
>> 
> Only those making the trip up the Alaska Highway to Alaska. Then you
> better have two matching spares at least!
> 
> One never knows what that hiway will present. I have made it on the
> ALCAN several times with out as much a a leaky tire. But I have also
> blown out 5 tires enroute from Dawson Creek to Anchorage - just one way.
> 
> So, start with really good tires on the ground, and two spares.
> 
> AS for the rest of the country - Lower 48 - prol'ly normal tire
> arrangement is good enough, unless you do a good bit of back-roading.
> Then you might adopt the Alaska Hiway strategy. I saw some rough back
> country when living in New Mexico. I know in other states there are some
> like NM.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> 
> 
Even here in colorado.. If I am heading off into roads that I know are made
up of a lot of sharp rock fill I always carry two spares.  Used both on one
trip that I had two spares with me by accident.  Ripped the tire valve off
of one of my front tires, and then the spare I put on got a rock cut about
half mile later.  Now I always carry two spares on those kind of trips.  The
can of liquid flat fixer is no good for those kind of damages.

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