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Old Mar 21, 2016 | 12:48 PM
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coming back from a car show, ran over a piece of plastic, found out my spare was low on air, ended up calling the father in law for rescue, got the tire fixed, spare aired up. drove home. what a Saturday afternoon. oops meant for General section.

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Hey if damage was confined to the tire, consider it a GOOD day
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Ya, the tire exploding thread was scary
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I would not drive to far on that. Seeing the tire diameter is different than the other tire your posi clutches will be turning and burning. They will wear out quickly if this is driven many miles like this.
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I would not drive to far on that. Seeing the tire diameter is different than the other tire your posi clutches will be turning and burning. They will wear out quickly if this is driven many miles like this.


I always try and put a "donut sized spare" on a non drive "axle".
My wifes AWD SUV had a full size spare which was nice.

Glad there wasn't any damage. Blow outs can be ugly.
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Put the donut spare on the front and two tires the same size on the rear. Then drive REALLY carefully.

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