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Why Does My Car Have No Spare Tyre
Recently bought a Dacia Duster on finance, but to my complete ignorance I didn't realise it came with no spare wheel.
I rang the garage where I bought it the next day apon realising it had no spare wheel, and they said oh didn't the sales team explain that to you, so I said no they didn't. I basically didn't expect it not to have one.
Anyway the plot thickens because my partner is a carer and needs the car 24/7. Yesterday evening we were out in it, luckily only travelling at 30mph, and without warning the rear nearside tyre went bang, so I managed to safely bring it to a stand still, and luckily recovery quickly came out and brought the car home, but couldn't fix the tyre as they don't carry spare tyres.
Now we have a car we can't use until Tuesday at the earliest due to it being the Easter weekend, non of the tyre garages around here are open until Tuesday.
Its worth pointing out the tyre was too damaged to re-inflate at the roadside.
So basically due to a lack of a spare wheel, which typically I grew up thinking was a vital piece of road side repair kit, was not included on my car, and apparently this trend is wider than I thought on most modern cars.
So why are cars being manufactured without a spare wheel, when all it does is redures the car unusable, and in our case for many days, which is awful as my partner desperately needs it to be operational at all times.
I can only assume manufacturer's think carrying an extra wheel and jack and tools is added weight, and without it the car will run more economically, and be better for the planet. But if it means calling out recovery trucks surely this means more vehicles on the road equalling more pollution, when ironically if the car had a spare wheel in the first place we could have just replaced the wheel ourselves saving call outs, and had a car we can use all weekend.
Is there any particular reason this is happening, surely it can't be down to my logic of extra weight?
Answers
Kwik Fit, Halfords etc are all open as normal every day of the Easter Holidays.
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I have already told you Halfords will come to your home and change your tyre over Easter. You could have had it done Friday, Saturday or yesterday. Get it booked in online now and get it sorted.
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barry1010,
We rang around several tyre garages, Halfords being one of them, and because it was Good Friday they didn't have our tyre size in stick.
They had a Firestone brand but it was double the price of a budget tyre which is all we can afford.
Can you believe we only got the tyre repaired this afternoon at 4pm, so affectively we have been without a car since Thursday evening, that's 5 days without a car, all because a car doesn't come with a spare wheel.
This to me is completely ridiculous, especially as my partner needs the car as she is a carer.
RandyMarsh,
No a 2 year old car on finance, but we we're not told cars don't come without spare wheels these days when we bought it.
Its almost like they expect customers to be up to speed with this.
If I knew this I would never have bought it.
We have basically been without a car due to an Easter weekend meant we have had no car for 5 days.
Not a very useful way of motoring is it?
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