Dand
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- Joined
- May 9, 2008
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- C208 230K
Late last night my mums C180 SC had a blow out which lead to a large split in the side wall of the tire(suspected faulty tyre). Luckily she was only traveling slowly and wasnt far from the house. Due to there being next to no light i decided to change the tire in the morning before taking it to get a new tire fitted. When i came to check the spare i found it was one of those space saver jobbies which you have to inflate with some silly compressor. After about half an hour of bu*gering about trying to get the compressor to work i decided to let it beat me and as i wasnt using my CLK today i got the proper spare wheel from that which solve the problem with ease which is exactly what you want in that situation.
This has got me thinking, whats the point in a space saver anyway. From the looks of it you can only use it once, you can only do 50mph on it which if your traveling on a busy motorway seems a bit dangerous to me. You have to use and carry a compressor incase you need it (why isnt it just inflated anyway). Imo if you need to use a spare the last thing you want to be doing is inflating it on the side of a busy road. its only good for around 100miles too which would be great if your traveling from Cornwall to Manchester overnight. Also by the time id got all the packing and cr@p out you could nearly fit a 205 size spare in the well anyway. Plus its not really creating extra boot space because in the cars my family have had with space savers all the junk we dont use often but is useful to by you has to be kept inside the actual boot and car, whereas with the cars with full sized spares you can hide those random bits inside the wheel in the well. Anyway Sorry for the rant but i had to get that off my chest.
This has got me thinking, whats the point in a space saver anyway. From the looks of it you can only use it once, you can only do 50mph on it which if your traveling on a busy motorway seems a bit dangerous to me. You have to use and carry a compressor incase you need it (why isnt it just inflated anyway). Imo if you need to use a spare the last thing you want to be doing is inflating it on the side of a busy road. its only good for around 100miles too which would be great if your traveling from Cornwall to Manchester overnight. Also by the time id got all the packing and cr@p out you could nearly fit a 205 size spare in the well anyway. Plus its not really creating extra boot space because in the cars my family have had with space savers all the junk we dont use often but is useful to by you has to be kept inside the actual boot and car, whereas with the cars with full sized spares you can hide those random bits inside the wheel in the well. Anyway Sorry for the rant but i had to get that off my chest.