What kind of jack do you carry in your car? (rental, tires)
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I put scissor jack but I'm not even sure if that's true. Whatever came with the cars. One time I bought a new car and the jack was totally missing. The dealer caught it when they delivered the car to me; I would never have noticed.
Same... my AAA gets used by family/friends more than me. These people must have a lot of time on their hands to wait on the side of the road for 45-90 minutes; i'm done and on my way in 15 minutes.
Exactly. I can't sit there and wait an hour for something I can do myself.
Now, if I got a flat in a dangerous spot, i'll let AAA deal with it, but the two times I've gotten flats in my life, I was somewhere very safe in a parking lot. I just changed it myself and went on with my day.
Same... my AAA gets used by family/friends more than me. These people must have a lot of time on their hands to wait on the side of the road for 45-90 minutes; i'm done and on my way in 15 minutes.
We only had a flat-tire once in all the decades of driving and AAA arrived in 20 minutes and took care of the whole thing. No way would I do this myself when a professional can take care of it.
We only had a flat-tire once in all the decades of driving and AAA arrived in 20 minutes and took care of the whole thing. No way would I do this myself when a professional can take care of it.
Meh... I value my time and would rather be doing other things than waiting around for a "professional" tire changer to show up.
My cars that originally came with a scissor jack, i carry a small floor jack. On my bigger cars that use a bumper jack, i'm ok with that. Believe me, you do not want to use the stock factory jack in a 76 Maverick to change a tire. Those things suck.
Exactly. I can't sit there and wait an hour for something I can do myself.
Now, if I got a flat in a dangerous spot, i'll let AAA deal with it, but the two times I've gotten flats in my life, I was somewhere very safe in a parking lot. I just changed it myself and went on with my day.
Agree! My wife insisted I wait for AAA one time, and Amica's guy another time. AAA guy took close to one hour to get to me on the shoulder of a not-busy highway in metro Houston, and misaligned the jack disfiguring the drip rail on bottom. Amica guy took even longer to come to my daughter's car in a metro mall parking lot, where I met her and waited too, and then did not have a compressor and "was not authorized" to take our spare 1/4 of a mile to refill it at a service station. I ended-up doing it all myself. Waste of time, role of dice on what you get. Next time we had a flat, I had it changed and on my way in no more than 15 minutes.
We only had a flat-tire once in all the decades of driving and AAA arrived in 20 minutes and took care of the whole thing. No way would I do this myself when a professional can take care of it.
Last year I had a flat on the Alaska Highway, out in the middle of nowhere, almost midnight and no service on my cell phone. AAA would have been absolutely worthless. No problem. I put on the spare myself and was on my way. I detest the idea of being utterly helpless.
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