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This is hysterical. I have seen a 9 year old girl change a tire. Maybe next time, you should consider using physics to help you...lever action, etc.
Sure. On a newer car with the right jack and a good 4 way wrench, you can. But you let those lugs on there a few years when they get rusty and tight and try using the little ass bitty excuse for a jack they give you. Then add in that it is 110 degrees today and just touching the thing will burn you. Different story. Sure I can roll the car into my garage and use a floor jack and lift it in 30 seconds, spray some WD40 on the lugs and the 4 way wrench and 5 lb hammer will do the rest. But on the road, nobody has those things and I would not expect most women to be able to do it.
Fix a flat only works if you have a hole in the tire. Most of the flats I have had destroy the tire.
Ditto,
I carry a can of fix-a-flat when offloading since a lot of the flats encountered are from thorns but I still carry a spare.
As for cell phones and AAA....we took off to some near by mountains this weekend and the wasn't any cellular service in-between the last major city and our cabin...about 90 miles without phone service! The small mountain town has cellular services but nothing out past say 10 miles radius of the town.
Haven't had a spare in years! I do carry the Fix-a-Flat stuff and have (in the current case) Audi Road Service, on speed dial on my cell.
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