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billgates: Anyone else carry an extra purchased spare tyre with them in boot or roof rack when gong on longer trips? Majority of new cars be it ICE or EV do not come with spare tyres anymore and the goo kit to fix puncture is mostly useless and very messy for the rim inside. With a family of 4. getting all of us rescued in a tow truck won’t be possible either I Imagine due to lack of seating capacity in the tow truck and the hassle of waiting an hour or two for it arrive.
Puncture are a gamble and we have had one in our ICE Kia once but luckily it came with a full size spare tyre and car jack kit while on way to Auckland from Hamilton. 10 mins later we were on our way again to Auckland. I have purchased anther spare wheel from our car dealer for the EV and decided we will place it in boot and strap it to side hooks so it does not moves around for trips outside of Hamilton
Yeah, Some people do. Photos I lifted from various sources:
Personally, We don't carry a spare in our leaf (and didn't in the BMW i3 we had before that either).
BMW i3 had tire pressure monitoring, & came with a compressor & goo.
My leaf does not have pressure monitoring, But did come with a compresser & goo, and a jack and lug nut wrench. Figure if the tire did not hold pressure from the compressor (without goo), I would have the option of pulling the wheel off and taking a taxi to a tire shop as an alternative to calling a tow truck.
I have been driving nearly 20 year's, and never have needed to change a tire at the roadside. All punctures / flats I have either been noticed when I was at home, or have been able to be inflated (no goo) with a 12v compressor, and have held up enough I could keep driving, stopping at regular gaps to check pressure.
Flat 12v batteries have been a much more common occurrence for me than tire issues.
You will need to costs of setting up and carrying a spare, vs the risk & cost (time and money) of having a flat (that can't simply be pumped up again) with no spare.
Suggest for most people, it's not worth carrying a spare on a car that doesn't have one. Of course if you have a situation where risk (or consequence) is higher than normal, it may be worthwhile
If you are going to set one up:
An option is to get a spare wheel & tools, and keep it at home. This gives you the option of phoning a friend to get it, or catching a taxi home to get it if you get a flat (that can't just be pumped up). But avoids the disadvantage of carrying the spare with you all the time.
The Nissan leaf has space to mount a spare under the rear boot floor (cutting away trim), so there can be zero loss of cargo space on that model. (indeed the ex - Australia batch of ZE0 cars Nissan NZ sold in 2013 - 2014 had a factory-fitted spare in that location.
Audi Q8 etron gets a factory spare (one of the crazy expanding ones that you pump up before use).
on risk:
Should note that full cars needing recovery isn't unusual, see photo of 4 door truck below. Also I know of a situation where the truck cab was full so some people road in the broken down car on the back.
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