So I'm driving to my son's in a couple of days and I give the car a once-over. Check both cars... I have a 50 foot Poly-urethane hose to the Air compressor in the garage and a nice digital pressure gauge/fill valve that I put one of those good stay attached chucks to. And a stool so I don't have to crouch by the car. Takes only a few minutes with the right stuff, and honestly hasn't changed much since the last time I checked.
Oil's still full, too.
So I decide to check the spare which I don't always do. It is in a well under the back deck of the SUV back compartment. I have to take ot the crap I keep there (tool kit, compressor, jumper cables, squeegee, breaker bar etc to raise the mat and open the lid, not too bad..Move the tray and the next tray with jacks and parts. Finally, the tire and wheel appears! I look carefully and realize why I don't check it that often. The d*mn thing is installed with a hold down so that the only way to put everything in the right place is with the valve facing the bottom of the well. Cr*p. I curse the engineer who did that. Took me longer to air up the spare (it was at 30 and should be 60 PSI) than to air up the other 8 tires on the driveway. and I got my hands dirty and strained my old back and recovering shoulder taking the tire out.
I mean he was surely faced with the decision on which way to put the tire and 2 seconds thinking for me would have made valve up the logical choice. It'll probably be another year before I check that one again.
Oil's still full, too.
So I decide to check the spare which I don't always do. It is in a well under the back deck of the SUV back compartment. I have to take ot the crap I keep there (tool kit, compressor, jumper cables, squeegee, breaker bar etc to raise the mat and open the lid, not too bad..Move the tray and the next tray with jacks and parts. Finally, the tire and wheel appears! I look carefully and realize why I don't check it that often. The d*mn thing is installed with a hold down so that the only way to put everything in the right place is with the valve facing the bottom of the well. Cr*p. I curse the engineer who did that. Took me longer to air up the spare (it was at 30 and should be 60 PSI) than to air up the other 8 tires on the driveway. and I got my hands dirty and strained my old back and recovering shoulder taking the tire out.
I mean he was surely faced with the decision on which way to put the tire and 2 seconds thinking for me would have made valve up the logical choice. It'll probably be another year before I check that one again.
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