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> tyre Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world. In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for help. If you get a flat in the middle of the actual desert we have, you're absolutely fucked without a spare. Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or…
> Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or just start walking. they also include patch and inflate kit for such cases?..
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Because they are a waste of space, money, and energy? In over forty five years of driving I have never changed a wheel beside the road. I have had two punctures and one blowout in that time. The first two were close enough to home to just drive home slowly and then drive to the nearest tyre fitter for a replacement and the last happened at night on a narrow sloping country road where jacking up the car would have bee…
> tyre Believe it or not, the UK is not the entire world. In the US, we have vast stretches of highway with nothing in sight. You can pretty easily find yourself many miles away from the nearest town and with no cell service to call for help. If you get a flat in the middle of the actual desert we have, you're absolutely fucked without a spare. Your options are to wait and hope someone else drives by to offer help or…
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So how often do you find yourself in the middle of the desert? My experience of visiting the US is that the ordinary driver in the US doesn't venture out of the cities any more often than people in other parts of the world.