It was a Thursday night. My partner was heading out the next day on a business trip, and we wouldn’t see each other for a good two weeks. After dinner, he drove us to a Redbox — remember those? — to ...

RAVE to the superb help I got in Burien. Earlier this week, I had a flat tire on a busy street. I was able to pull into a restaurant parking lot and began the task of changing the tire. As I had never ...

The world of tires is an ever-expanding nexus of increasingly specialized compounds for any situation. There are tires for everyday roads, snow, rain, summer, racing, off-roading and tires that ...

I looked in the trunk and saw a piddly little spare with barely two inches of rubber. I called the 800 number for Europadopa, the car rental company (name changed to protect the innocent) to ask for ...

WEBVTT CARMAKERS - DITCHING THE SPARE TIRE. BUT WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET A FLAT WITHOUT HAVING AN EXTRA TIRE IN THE TRUNK? I HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN THIS STORY BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO ME. ON ...

Have you ever had a flat tire? Do you know how to change one? I remember one day when my childhood pal Mike Kidwiler and I were on our way to Charlestown and I was driving my old 56 Mercury, a gift ...

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