05-25-2019, 08:57 PM
Sorry to hear of your tire problems, space-time.
I just drive slowly on the shoulder until I get to a place that can sell me a tire - no matter how far it is and whether I have a good spare or not. I won’t change tires on the roadside. If it’s 50 miles, I will call for road service and pay the freight. This is especially true in our -20° winter weather and barely eight hours of daylight.
I did buy a set of tires last summer before a 5000+ mile trip that included a long layover in Mexico City. I like that the Volt has a TPMS that shows each tire. One tire was a bit over one PSI lower than the other three and I left it that way. All four kept their pressure over the six month trip! A share of the trip was on two lane road in Mexico where it is necessary and customary to drive on the shoulder whenever need be so that on-coming traffic can pass. Sometimes there will be three vehicles coming at you, all side-by-side, on a two lane road, one passing another and the third passing both! Fortunately the shoulder has plenty of traffic so debris, i.e., tire food, is not a problem.
And those tires I bought were motivated by a driver (me) pulling a screw out of the face of the tire and not being able to screw it back in when air started to leak out. Fortunately it was during a weekday and I was able to drive the 15 blocks in traffic to a Firestone dealer without issue, eyeing the TPMS all the way as it dropped from, IIRC, about 40 to about 10.
I just drive slowly on the shoulder until I get to a place that can sell me a tire - no matter how far it is and whether I have a good spare or not. I won’t change tires on the roadside. If it’s 50 miles, I will call for road service and pay the freight. This is especially true in our -20° winter weather and barely eight hours of daylight.
I did buy a set of tires last summer before a 5000+ mile trip that included a long layover in Mexico City. I like that the Volt has a TPMS that shows each tire. One tire was a bit over one PSI lower than the other three and I left it that way. All four kept their pressure over the six month trip! A share of the trip was on two lane road in Mexico where it is necessary and customary to drive on the shoulder whenever need be so that on-coming traffic can pass. Sometimes there will be three vehicles coming at you, all side-by-side, on a two lane road, one passing another and the third passing both! Fortunately the shoulder has plenty of traffic so debris, i.e., tire food, is not a problem.
And those tires I bought were motivated by a driver (me) pulling a screw out of the face of the tire and not being able to screw it back in when air started to leak out. Fortunately it was during a weekday and I was able to drive the 15 blocks in traffic to a Firestone dealer without issue, eyeing the TPMS all the way as it dropped from, IIRC, about 40 to about 10.