Wife says I’m nuts but I think this is the nicest looking spare tire I’ve ever owned. Since I only drive my Jag locally
I don’t need the spare in the car and removed it for weight savings, as I do with all my cars. It looks pretty awesome on the wall, as far as garage art goes.

 

As a work of art its rather over inflated, though you would not get tired of seeing it.

 

Haha

 

I don't understand why you would not want a spare tire for local trips. I've had to change a flat just five blocks from home when I had a pair of scissors stuck in the sidewall. I guess I could could have walked home, got the spare and returned, but then its a 15 minute fix vs an hour or more and having to leave the car unattended. One thing about driving on that orange wheel tho, it sure makes everybody look.

 

I wonder how silly an XK8 would look on four of those with proper (e.g. non-spare) tires. Halfway to one of those old racing E-Types on the lightweight alloys, perhaps.

 

Sure anything could happen. Back in the day I drove an MGB to work every day that had tubes in the tires. I probably had
4-5 flats a year and, with the big center wingnut and hammer, could change a flat in 10 minutes on the side of the expressway no less. But nowadays tires are so incredibly good. I have owned 6-8 cars over the last 20 years (all at once, not sequentially) and have not had a single blowout in that time. I have had a couple of flat tires that bled slow enough that I could still drive either home or to a tire repair place. But nothing in all that time that has left me stranded. On top of that I have AAA, so in the unlikely event it happens I can call them.

My wife keeps her spare which is ironic because she could not change a tire to save her life. But it makes her comfortable so it stays.

Later this fall we are planning a Jag road trip. I will take the spare tire and a box of tools and spare parts because of Murphys Law. If I bring all that I won’t need it.

 

Yeah I think these spares have a real throwback look to them.

 

Yes. Tires great. Roads bad. I don't know about Florida, but OMG they're so bad here.

 

I was glad to have my "skinny" spare a couple of weeks ago when a rock spilled from a dump truck destroyed my right front tire about 70 km from the nearest community a couple of weeks ago

 

As it’s a repute W 122degF here in Bahrain, I’ve set up a work bench in the AC-ed garage store room.


Great mounting tools on the wall. Reminds me of all the jobs, good and bad, associated with each tool.

 

My first reaction is to say "Spare" me all the bad joke and long responses, but then I would never say something like that in this fortuitous well spoken forum. As said earlier, have a spare, and then you never need it, but then have it on the wall, and it is always available, and you know where it is. Or you can tell her, "One man's(Woman's) junk is another's treasure.

 

I wanted to put it on the bedroom wall, but this was vetoed by the Base Commander for some reason.

 

You could occasionally cover it, light it and call it a romantic "Moon setting in the distance" for your ambience???

 

I tried that. She TIRED of it quickly and said SPARE me the mood lighting before things go FLAT!

 

You lugs are all nuts!

 

Nice turn of phrase fellas!

Hehehe