Why Don't Some Cars Come With Spare Tires?
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2021
- For most drivers, the spare tire is going the way of carburetors and VHS tapes. Today, more automakers are selling vehicles with only four tires and wheels instead of five to trim weight, boost gas mileage and save money.
Tire Review's Maddie Winer breaks down the benefits of ditching the spare tire, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.
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Tell someone the benefits of not having spare tire when the coming home some summer Sunday night on a four lane highway doing 80 mph,and they get a flat.Road side assistance. No problem. Wait a few hours and then what?Get towed to a motel and wait until the next day and go tire shopping.A run flat tire?That will get you an astounding 50 miles.What if your 80 miles from home? This is just one more reason the government should not design cars.
Why don't automakers sell cars without the back seats? You may not need them all the time, but you need them sometimes. The same goes for the spare wheel! The alternative of filling a flat tyre with foam simply does NOT work! It is irresponsible for car makers selling vehicles without this essential backup now.
1000%… Agree
Don't give me that bullshit excuse. Give me my spare tire.
1000% agree..
What an amazing benefit!
You can now charge me for a service that would be unnecessary if you just left the damn thing on!
And you've also now essentially made my car undrivable in rural areas.
Nice!
Golly! I never realised that losing the spare saved so much weight. So using this logic, I have stopped carrying any tools. l never take the car shopping or carry any luggage. Never carry any passengers ( including the wife an kids) and I have gone on a crash diet, Just think of the fuel I must be saving, I now wonder why I ever had a car in the first place so I am going to sell it.
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If you live in the rural area and on gravel road this is a must to have a spare tire!! Tires today are like inner tubes with tread made very cheap but a high price.
It should be the law that all cars come with a spare. Currently sat by the side of the road with a tyre off the rim.
The actual costs of bringing a spare tire are not pointed out in this video, just some nonesense about what potentially 10 percent weightloss will save you. But a spare tire is not 10 percent of the weight.
Exactly.
We don’t mind a spare in the trunk and extra gas. Next they’ll suggest we dont put anyone in the back seat to save on gas🤣🤣🤣🤣. Utter rubbish. Give us our spare tire, we’ll remove it ourselves and save gas. Nonsense
I had a flat one night I was able to make it to a Walgreens parking lot. Call AAA was surprisingly quick to arrive at night. But while I was waiting took my compact spare out so it would be ready when AAA arrived. I took the tire to a gas station and the next day the mec showed me a large slash in the tire. Sealant would not have helped me with that tire.
They said a 10% weight reduction gives an extra 1/10 of a gallon every mile or some shit. A spare tire reduces 10% of a whole car? Yeah no, I think my spare tire is 25 pounds at most, not 300 pounds.
Eliminating the spare does not shed 10% of the cars weight...
In Australia road side assistance packages are crap, this is manly because worker are nor allowed to fix a simple puncture. This could be a lie but a worker has stated companies do not want to accept legal liability if anything goes wrong after they repair punctures. In the end its just a profit intiatives so that tyre shops don't lose money on simple puncture repairs.
Those Cafe standards are useless when there's plenty of people that willingly buy a spare tire if the car doesn't already have one.
My spare tire has saved me twice in the past few years. I would never buy a car without a spare tire.
When I was younger I used to think that carrying water bottles on all day hikes were important. But now that I'm older and in better shape, I don't need extra water. Water is overrated, and I would rather save the weight for accessories and electronics. Plus one of my steps as an adult equals 2 steps for when I was a child. I don't need water, it's unnecessary and frankly I will never need it on hikes.
I just fill my tank with 2 gallons max when I need it. weight problem fixed
This advice is a load of crap! Not only should you have a spare tire but you should replace the crapy small spare with a full size spare. Why? Its simple! What if you got a flat out in the middle of nowhere with no one around for many miles. If you had a full size spare, all you have to do is change the flat and off you go. If you had one of those crapy small size spares you would still have to find a place to get your flat repaired and or replaced right away.
Newer cars not coming with spare tires, benefit the carmaker's but not the car owner What about if a tire shreds to pieces and you don't have a spare tire to replace it with then what. a tire kit is useless.
A spare tyre is a spare life! Once I was driving 🚗 a long distance and I caught a hole and one of the tyre was completely destroyed...so guess what saved my trip?
Exactly! It was my spare tyre!!!!
Even if they did have spares when a car mechanic works on your car he puts the tire on with that power tool so you have to bring the car back to him to get it off!!! It’s always ALL about the money smh
Sheer madness. Run flats are a joke. Not having a spare is a huge safety issue. Wife’s BMW has had 3 tire problems which required towing and no car for days. Just lucky that she was not in a secluded area. Total insane example of corporate greed. Will never acquire a vehicle without a spare (exception would be if the tire required no air to begin with and the rim was made from titanium)
Ain't no way a tire makes up for 10% of the car's total weight. Sure it likely makes for better fuel economy but how about just focusing on making better hybrids and electric vehicles instead of removing an essential safety feature. Literally know one thinks the removal of the spare is a good idea other than tire and auto manufacturers. This is propaganda.
Going without a spare tire might save your gas but it won't save your A$$ when there is an un-patchable puncture.
Like Apple got rid of the charger in the box.
Crazy
Problem: My 2019 KIA Forte I bought new did not come with a spare tire.
Solution: $315.00USD KIA OEM spare tire kit. Comes complete with wrench and jack.
My KIA came with no spare tire but had a can of sealant, a 12VDC compressor. By the way the sealant expires May 2024 which is 5 years after the car was made.
Good luck fixing a tire on the side of the road. At night. No light. With a large puncture or hole in the sidewall than can’t be fixed.
Don’t be a dumb ass. Get a spare tire kit from the manufacturer and, if they don’t have one, get a serviceable tire from the junk yard, a tire wrench, and jack and hope you’ll never need to use it. I know, I know, just make it fit and take less luggage. Hope you never need to use it.
How’s you wife going to react when you get a flat tire at night with you, the wife, and the kid in the car? Thinking about that should be enough to scare you into a spare.
The next thing they may leave out to save weight to increase mileage will be the back seat.
Biggest load of bull dust if I have ever heard some …
Bs having a spare is much better life saver
This Auto Maker’s they not provide Full Spare or a Donut Tire … With their Ignorant Reasons..But They tell you Can by one at same Dealer you bought the Vehicle for a good chunk of Money.. If you don’t have room under carriage put it on trunk.. Of course every Vehicle need a Spare tire..
Those are the most idiotic reasons I have heard. Those savings will be wiped off when you take an Uber to the tireshop. More drivers will drive on flat tires to make it to nearest town. It will cost car owner more not to have a spare tire. Only an idiot thinks that only small nails puncture tires. Sometimes, you run over a sharp object that shreds the tire, and that can leave you stranded in the wilderness.
Next you will disable comments?
Blablabla fuel economy. IF I AM MORBIDLY OBESE DOES THAT REDUCE FUEL CONSUMPTION???? 😂
NO. But they get your money from the food you buy, so they don't care
A spare tire weighs a lot less than my ex-wife. I'm keeping the spare...
This is Not a smart idea
UTTER NONSENSE!!! People who live in rural areas need spare tyres!!!
Don't care where you live if you need a spare tire. I live in a suburb and the spare tire comes in very handy.
The new generation of kids have been brainwashed. They do not even know how to change a tire. Tricked into thinking that cars never had spare tires. Its to save money not gas miles.
Bought a Mercedes-Benz GLE 450 with 3rd row seating. Car has run flats and no jack or spare tire. At 547 miles, sidewall blew out rendering the car inoperable. It was towed to the dealer and was told 3 days to get a new tire and had no loaners. This was the biggest mistake I've ever made. I'm getting rid of it and going back to Lexus.
Its a total lie about the gas savings. How about eat less McDonalds? Rim weights 17 pounds or less depends on car. This video is a sham.
She should be ashamed of herself. How is a small tire and jack 10% of car weight
This is bs, they know
This is the dumbest industry serving take... "you save money on fuel so you can buy a roadside service package in place of having a spare tire to help yourself.". shame on you, Maddie Whiner, for mouthing this idiocy.
I'll say it for all. Bullshit
I hope they change their spokesperson, she's not very presentable...