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Replying to: hansienna (Aug 04, 2005 12:56 pm) I've actually told my wife to either drive through the ditch to the frontage road or limp on down the highway to an exit rather than to stop beside the road and risk her life (and usually also, our children's lives) stopping beside the highway. Doubtless such a maneuver is still risky and would probably destroy the wheel and maybe suspension parts in the case of a flat. But such expense is well worth my families' lives. So, you can well imagine how the relative increased expense and potential hassle of the PAX tires is less of a concern to me than to others.
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Replying to: dilbertzzz (Aug 04, 2005 11:38 am)  .....
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Replying to: mich_chow (Aug 04, 2005 1:35 pm) It is common for any new fully redesigned vehicle to have some teething problems. My family was in the auto business for 30 years. We never bought first-year cars, but IMHO the manufacturers have done a tremendously better job than in the past. I like new stuff with the latest gadgets, so I'll give 'em six months of production before buying. Haven't gotten burned yet. Not sure I'd try it with a Ford or Dodge yet....GM has done fairly well though.
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Replying to: dilbertzzz (Aug 04, 2005 2:03 pm)  However, couldn't a person just drive a little slower in the far right lane to the next exit on a flat tire of any kind? I frequently see TV footage of criminals driving for many miles on tires flattened by Police spikes and often at high speeds. |
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Replying to: sebring95 (Aug 04, 2005 6:00 pm)
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"However, couldn't a person just drive a little slower in the far right lane to the next exit on a flat tire of any kind?" No - A LOT SLOWER would be more like it. "I frequently see TV footage of criminals driving for many miles on tires flattened by Police spikes and often at high speeds." Have you seen the rims after all this? I don't think you want to be driving on regular tires when they are flat. |
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Replying to: mich_chow (Aug 04, 2005 7:42 pm) |
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Replying to: hansienna (Aug 04, 2005 7:27 pm)  But it doesn't take much to destroy a tire from running on the rim. My daughter drove her Celica GTS back to the house on a flat (just up the drive, about 1/4 mile) and it destroyed her tire. Instead of a $7 fix, it was $350 for 2 new tires. She now knows to huff-it back up the drive in that situation!
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Replying to: sebring95 (Aug 05, 2005 5:29 am) And how in the heck to you ruin 2 tires with 1 flat?
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Replying to: rorr (Aug 05, 2005 6:25 am) You don't ruin two tires. But, unless the ruined tire and it's vehicle/axle mate are brand spanking new, you do want to replace tires in pairs (if not entire sets, if you are in the habit of rotating tires). Otherwise, the mismatches are very hard on your suspension and dangerous for handling. Also, to sebring95: It isn't so much a matter of getting attacked on the side of the road (though this is a legal concealed weapon state!). It's the fact that drivers too frequently ram into a car stopped at the side of the road. My theory is that this happens because we drive fast here and, when confronted with traffic slowing faster than expected (as they tend to do when a car is on the shoulder), drivers here are in the habit of veering toward the shoulder in an attempt to avoid rear-ending the car in front of them. As a result, they frequently slam into the before-that-point-unseen broken-down vehicle and/or people standing on the shoulder: out of the frying pan and into the fire, as it where. 
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