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Originally Posted by Average Joe
It usually happens at the worst time. I got a flat last summer while on a camping trip. I hooked up to the trailer, on the last day,and adjusted the load leveling bars only to discover the rr was almost flat. So unhook trailer get out 30 y/o spare and find its got only 15 pound in it. Aarrrghhh! Next step pump up spare tire with bicycle pump to 40 pounds, rehook trailer, and cross fingers hoping bias ply tire holds air till home. All the while going through nicotine withdrawal. I made it home but now I have a new radial spare and check the air psi monthly. I do like your sub install. Very clean!!
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I think most people never check the pressure in their spare. I check my spare pressure and pump up if needed, every time I rotate tires. I rotate every 6K miles.
In the course of my driving, I have had 3 flats and 2 blow outs. I changed each in 10 minutes or less and I was back on my way. *Blow outs were dry rotted tires on a car I bought out of a junkyard and was towing it home. Those blow outs were more like
explosions! 
I have changed and helped change, let's see: 5 people's tires. Two women and 3 men. One was a police officer. No joke.