mikey@trsvax (09/01/85)
Just a word of warning to anyone out there with "special" tires. I just completed my vaction to the northeast US. I took my Omni GLH Turbo that came with standard 195/50HR15 Eagle GT's. Great car, great tires. On saturday night at about 6:30, I had a flat left front tire. Amazingly, I didn't realize it was flat for at least 20 miles. I was going about 70 on I-81 and the only indication was that when we hit a bump or a dip, we heard a funny road noise. There was no pull to that side, the car didn't lean, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. When I took an offamp, the brakes seemed a little funny, seems the tire was just spinning on the rim. What it boils down to is: try to find a replacement tire in a 'bible belt' town on saturday night. The one garage told me most places didn't even open on saturday. The only place that would even look at it was a Montgomery Wards. They examined the tire, cleaned everythig up, and pluged it for only 6 bucks, including torqueing two wheels. The garage on the highway charged me 10 bucks to take the tire off and tell me tough beans! If it weren't for the Montgomery Wards, I'd have to wait till monday morning to even try to get a new tire. The space saver spare sure wouldn't have gotton me another 300 miles to Pennsylvania. I went to the Goodyear dealer during the week and even there they said that size tire would take a few days to get. The moral of the story? Carry a full size spare! mikey at trsvax