Spare Tire Woes...

[deyomatic]

Are you KIDDING ME? This is how GM designed the spare tire system so that when I break down on the side of the road THIS is what I have to do to save myself?

Anyway, I've been wrestling with this $%^( for an hour now and the wheel won't drop. The cable drops, but the wheel stays up there dangling. The owners manual says to use the two wheel chocks with the jack on top to press it upward to release the secondary latch mechanism...that's not working, either. I used a 4x4 piece of wood instead because I must have more knowledge of physics than the average GM designer and it took only seconds to find out that a jack that is heavier than the two chocks won't balance on the chocks well enough to press up on the wheel...

Any tips? I'm ready to cut the cable and remove the whole system and use a can of fix a flat because there's no chance I'll ever live through the heart attack that would be caused by the stress of doing this on the side of the road sometime, and if I need AAA to come get me my spare anyway, I can just call them to come pick me up and bring me to a tire shop...

I hope "The New GM" figures this out and makes the necessary design changes...

(Sorry for the rant, I've been through this twice- my work truck, and now my own...)