Calling all drivers. Flat tyre, miles from home,on your own , What do you do?

Question

No cell phone with you. I would just have to look pretty and helpless, or pretty helpless and have a kind person stop to help. Don`t worry you are not in a desolate place.

Answer 1

I'd open the boot, take out the spare wheel (which is placed there for the purpose), and swap it with the one that's flat. Then i'd get in the car and drive on, stopping to get the tyre fixed (at a tyre repair place).

Men can do it. And women do everything so much better than men, don't they?

Answer 2

If you are a good driver you must also a good mechanics by your own wheel. Change the flat tire by your own.

Answer 3

change it ?............could not help not sending you this,a bit long and a bit soppy but still a good story,from my in box ,of course,where else ??????    Hope it dont make anyone cry!!

He almost didn't see the old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but

even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled

up in front of her Mercedes and got out. His Pontiac was still

sputtering when he approached her.

Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to

help for the last hour or so . was he going to hurt her? He didn't look

safe; he looked poor and hungry.

He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He

knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear can put in you.

He said, "I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car

where it's warm? By the way, my name is Bryan Anderson."

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad

enough. Bryan crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack,

skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the

tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and

began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was

only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to

her aid.

Bryan just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she

owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already

imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not

stopped. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job

to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were

plenty who had given him a hand in the past. He had lived his whole life

that way, and it never occurred to him to act any other way.

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she

saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance

they needed, and Bryan added, "And think of me."

He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold

and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing

into the twilight.

A few miles down the road the lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab

a bite to eat, and take the chill off before she made the last leg of

her trip home. It was a dingy looking restaurant. Outside were two old

gas pumps. The whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The waitress came over

and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. she had a sweet smile,

one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase. The

lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she

never let the strain and aches change her attitude. The old lady

wondered how someone who had so little could be so giving to a stranger.

Then she remembered Bryan.

After the lady finished her meal, she paid with a hundred dollar bill.

The waitress quickly went to get change for her hundred dollar bill, but

the old lady had slipped right out the door. She was gone by the time

the waitress came back The waitress wondered where the lady could be.

Then she noticed something written on the napkin. There were tears in

her eyes when she read what the lady wrote: "You don't owe me anything.

I have been there too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I'm helping

you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let

this chain of love end with you."

Under the napkin were four more $100 bills.

Well, there were tables to clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to

serve, but the waitress made it through another day. That night when she

got home from work and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the

money and what the lady had written. How could the lady have known how

much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was

going to be hard..

She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to

her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, "Everything's

gonna be all right. I love you, Bryan Anderson."

There is an old saying "What goes around comes around."

Answer 4

Get on with it!

Change it!

What are you a blonde female?

Answer 5

1) Open Boot.

2) Remove Jack, Handle/Iron and Spare Tire.

3) Place jack under car according to the instructions.

4) Lift the jack so that it is snug in place, but do not lift the wheel off the ground.

5) Remove Wheel Cover

6) Loosen lug nuts. If they won't budge try standing on the tire iron and jiggle a bit.

6a) If you are not strong and/or heavy enough to loosen the lug nuts, you will have to plead with every burly person that passes till you find one willing to help.

7) Raise car so that when you rotate the tire to a point that hasn't been flattened, it is just off the ground.

8) Remove lug nuts. Place them in side the wheel cover so they do not get lost.

9) Remove tire. If it has not been off for some time, you may have to kick it side to side to loosen it from the lugs.

10) Place spare on lugs and hand tighten lug nuts.

11) Lower jack until tire is on the ground.

12) Tighten lug nuts with iron in a cross pattern for 4 lugs or in a star pattern if there is 5 or 8 lugs.

13) Place tire and wheel cover in boot.

14) Remove jack and place in boot

15) Drive to a tire serviceman and have your tire repaired and put back on.

Happy Motoring :-)

Answer 6

Don't know how these people would change a tyre at the side of the road, me-I'd just change the wheel.

Answer 7

Take the flat on off

and change it for the new one in the trunk/boot.

Answer 8

Probably walk to the nearest house and ask to use the phone to call the breakdown guys.

Answer 9

hi there, i take it you are a woman driver lol, if you have never changed a flat tire you should get a friend to show you,  you have a spare tire in your trunk and jack, wheel  wrench also, should only take 10 to 15 minutes to change, good luck, tom n.

Answer 10

beleive it or not,your car carries a spare wheel,and a jack,and a wheel brace,usualy in the boot(or trunk to our American cousins) prepare to get your hands dirty,or just sit there looking helpless

Answer 11

I would get the car manual out and try to change the tyre myself.

If someone comes along and helps, Great.  If not I reckon I could do it if I had to.

Lucky for me I've been with a male when I've had a flat tyre  :-)

Answer 12

As you are more than pretty helpless, buy a BMW which now has no spare tyre but runs on a flat for up to 50 km!!  You will never have the problem again!!

Answer 13

Well, you can do what people back in the old days use to do. CHANGE YOUR OWN TIRE! Or walk to the nearest call box, business or house and ask kindly to use their phone.

Answer 14

Learn how to change a tyre and maybe you'll never have to end up in that situation

Answer 15

change the wheel

Answer 16

wait three hours for the breakdown services.

Answer 17

I would try to change the tyre.

Being a girl doesn't make you helpless. And the milk of human kindness means that someone will probably stop to make sure you are OK. Then you drive to a garage and get a new tyre.

Answer 18

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Answer 19

buy yourself some tyre weld. if you get a flat and you cant change or get someone to help, you just squirt this stuff in the tyre and you will be able to drive the car to a garage.

Answer 20

Basic requirement for owning a car - get on and change it.

Answer 21

Cry, stomp you feet, and be a victim.

Answer 22

wait where i am! i know im expected where ever im going! theyll come find me! i hope!!

Answer 23

I put the spare on