3 Reasons To Throw Away Your Spare Tire! |
| Published: May 13, 2008, 10:06 pm |
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Years ago you wouldn't dare drive anywhere without a spare tire. Back in the 50's when I first started to drive you needed a couple of sets of tires on hand. Summer tires and winter tires and, if you got 25,000 miles out of them you were lucky. Back in the early years of the automobile if you could get 50 miles without a flat tire it was a mile stone. Cars had spare tires and rims on both sides of the vehicle. So How About Today? In 2007, tire-related issues caused nearly 1 million motorists to require roadside assistance during the months of June, July and August according to Road & Travel Magazine. That equates to roughly 4 million reported tire related issues each year. There are probably many more that go unreported. But, let's compare carrying around that bulky spare tire for protection against flat tire inconvenience versus carrying around a spare bumper for rear end collision damage. Typically there are about 2 million rear end collisions each year. Obviously, [ Full article ] |
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