Miata Mailing List: December 1997, Message #211
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From: 	dataylor@tracy.com (Evelyn & Dennis Taylor)

Subject: Re: Friendly Reminder:  Check Your Spare!

Date: 	Tue, 2 Dec 1997 16:56:21 +0000



Good point. Another point may be to make sure the spare is even in the car.

For Thanksgiving, my kids and I went to my parents house in the truck,

Dennis followed the next day in Elric. I remembered that the spare had been

removed from the trunk for Laguna Seca and not put back. So I called before

he left and reminded him to put it back in. Fortunately he had already done

so. He had to put the old steel rims and tires back on. R1's don't do well

on wet or snow covered surfaces.



Evelyn

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At 04:35 PM 12/2/97 +0000, you wrote:

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>Just returned from a very expensive lunch.  Earlier today I was sitting at 

>my desk doing what Engineers normally do, reading and talking about 

>Dilbert, and a co-worker stopped by and said it appeared that I had a flat 

>tire.  He said he wasn't sure because with my low-profile tires, it was 

>sometimes hard to determine.  I took him at his word, and out to the 

>parking lot I went.  Sure enough, the right rear was flat.  Opened the 

>trunk, pulled out the jack and my torque wrench and loosened bolts.  Then I 

>reached under the trunk (modified exhaust) and dropped the spare.  Sure 

>enough, it too was flat.  Fortunately, my wife works in the same building 

>so I borrowed her Lexus to run home (3 miles) and fill the spare.  Back to 

>work, off with the Dunlop SP4000 205/50ZR-15, and on with the spare.  Next 

>to NTB (formally NTW) for a fix.  Unfortunately, the MOMO Ferrari rim had 

>cut the sidewalls and a new tire had to be purchased.  Bummer!  Anyway, I'm 

>back on the road after a very expensive Dunlop lunch.

>

>Hope the note didn't bore you, but it is a reminder to periodically check 

>your spare's pressure.  I was lucky everything happened close to work, 

>home, and a tire shop.  Others may not be so lucky.

>

>Later,

>

>Butch Brown	

>'91 Red "MIATAGO"

><http://www.mindspring.com/~miatago/home1.html>

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Evelyn

dataylor@tracy.com



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