03-02-2013, 10:05 PM
The spare is there for safety? Christ, bit if a bugger if you have a puncture and then are rear ended! 
Personally I wouldn't bother, I've never run without a spare, but I've also had many breakdowns, none of which needing a wheel. Maybe I should carry spare drums/shoes, headgaskets, waterpipes, aux belts, turbos, cams, driveshafts, etc.... But we don't (well, I think ruan does lol), just seems pointless to kerp a spare wheel when there's so many other possible and more likely issues that could arrise. And let's face it, apart from not bring able to crack the nuts when the garage have gunned them to 500Nm but also would you really stand outside you car in the dark and pouring rain trying to get the wheel out of that stupid f*cking rusty cage (after removing the saftey bolt from under all the shit in your boot) then hoping your handbrake works as you have no chok and attempting to change the wheel? More than likely not!!
Personally I wouldn't bother, I've never run without a spare, but I've also had many breakdowns, none of which needing a wheel. Maybe I should carry spare drums/shoes, headgaskets, waterpipes, aux belts, turbos, cams, driveshafts, etc.... But we don't (well, I think ruan does lol), just seems pointless to kerp a spare wheel when there's so many other possible and more likely issues that could arrise. And let's face it, apart from not bring able to crack the nuts when the garage have gunned them to 500Nm but also would you really stand outside you car in the dark and pouring rain trying to get the wheel out of that stupid f*cking rusty cage (after removing the saftey bolt from under all the shit in your boot) then hoping your handbrake works as you have no chok and attempting to change the wheel? More than likely not!!