[DeTomaso] spare tire/wheel
Will Kooiman
will.kooiman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 06:40:05 EST 2021
I haven't carried a spare for many years, either in the Pantera or the Cobra. I've used AAA for my backup.
But...
My Cobra recently started experiencing vapor lock. It stranded me in Tallahassee over Thanksgiving break. I was 500 miles from home. I called AAA and waited for the tow truck. It was going to be $1,800 to get me and the car home, but at that point, I didn't care. I was on the side of the road for over an hour. The tow truck driver finally called and refused to tow me. They said it would be "too uncomfortable" to drive that far. I called my wife, who helped find a U-Haul truck and auto transport. I had originally called U-Haul, but the national number couldn't find anything. Long story, but I finally got on the road, 7 hours after I entered Tallahassee.
Last weekend, I took the car to a show about 5 miles away. I figured it would be okay, since it wouldn't have time to overheat. But it happened again. It died just as I parked the car. I figured it would cool enough during the show, and it did enough to get me going. It died again 2 miles from the show. I called AAA again. This time, the tow truck driver refused the tow and cancelled my AAA case. Nobody told me they cancelled the call, so I waited for 2 hours for a truck that would never show. I finally gave up on them. I walked across the street (it died near a gas station), and bought a small gas can and a soft drink in a plastic container. I poured gas from the gas can to the soft drink container, and from there into the vent tubes. I figured I could limp it for 3 miles, which I did. Filling the fuel bowls was actually enough gas to get me all the way home.
So, I don't trust AAA anymore. It may be that the local tow truck companies are unreliable, probably due to Covid, but it doesn't really matter.
If I had a flat tire, and if I had a spare, I could use the spare, and drive home with the deck lid open. I wouldn't do that for 500 miles, but it wouldn't be a problem for short distances. And if I still ran the rear trunk, I'd carry the 90's Lincoln compact spare.
Btw, I now think the vapor lock is a hardened gas line that is sucking air. This replica is almost 30 years old, so it probably has gas lines that are not ethanol friendly. I have the car safely in my garage, so I'm going to go through the entire fuel system.
On 12/8/21, 11:56 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of LSJ via DeTomaso" <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
After having some wheel and tire "issues", I bought a late 90's Lincoln
compact spare made of aluminum. It is very lightweight and easily fits
into the trunk.
The OEM compact spare tire also matches quite closely to the diameter
of the rubber on my GT5.
LSJ
On Saturday, December 4, 2021, 09:04:05 PM EST, Konrad Szwab
<kszwab at gmail.com> wrote:
I would drive on the spare and the down the flat tire on top of the
luggage rack I have on top of the deck lid
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021, 8:02 PM Mike Drew <[1][1]mikeldrew at aol.com>
wrote:
My recommendation is simply adonata.
There is no place to put a full sized wheel and tire in the car.
So,
if you get a flat and install the spare, do you plan to leave the
flat and the wheel on the side of the road and drove away?A Of
course not.
So, you will get a tow truck in any case. So no need for a sparea|.
Mike
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> On Dec 4, 2021, at 16:58, Konrad Szwab <[2][2]kszwab at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> i>>?A A Many years ago, sadly my father threw away the spare
tire/wheel.
>A A What would be the recommendation for a spare tire/wheel/jack
for the'73
>A A ?
>A A Thanks,
>A A Konrad
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