how many spare tires is enough?
how many spare tires is enough? (or, how lucky do I feel).
Wife and I will be taking Jeep Liberty 2008 to the Arizona strip and tootling around backroads to Whitmore Point, Tuweap, Kanab Pt , top of Lava, Snake Gulch etc. City tires on 16" rims. Jeep has part time 4WD and traction control. It climbs Jeep trails better than you would expect on city tires , due to the traction control. Spare tire is a brand new LT on a 16" rim.
I will take 2 cans of fix-a-flat.
I will take a spare LT tire on a 15"rim (it fits) - on a modified bicycle carrier in the rear hitch.
Should I also take the silly donut spare that came with the Jeep?
I have never ad a flat tire on back roads in 11 years. I have driven the Hole in the Rock Road and Toroweap Pt road a few times. On gravel and dirt roads I do tend to run in 4WD more then needed to even out the tire-road forces at work.
Reason I ask is that I just watched a YouTube video- and these two dudes in a Suburban went down the Toroweap Pt road and got TWO flats in 60 miles!!