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[waynetaylor55]

Originally Posted by ducksface

There are far better things to consider in rv life than a 45 pound(ish) wheel upsetting some weight restriction decided by some dweeble engineer working in a cubicle farm.

Make.life.easy.

Have a wheel and tire properly inflated and ready to mount(if you have the room)
There is NO reason to go half way on this. A flat tire could very possibly damage the wheel it rode off of.

Even though I have Good Sam and State farm and extended warranty coverage (and the cash to handle it all if those somehow fail), I carry a spare and associated tools... because I can.

I haven't had a flat on a motored vehicle since 1977.
It hasn't kept me from carrying a spare to convenience ME when I need convenienced.

Judge:
Look up and tool called a
Torque multiplier.
It guarantees when you have to do the change yourself, that you can take off any lugnut applied by any teenage hamfisted air wrench wielding tire installer.
80ish bucks.

All good points. I've blown out my shoulders and my upper body strength is not what it used to be. I'm just thinking of worse case scenarios in that I get a blowout in the middle of a rainstorm in nowhere Kansas and the tire guy shows up three hours later and says I need a new tire, he just happens to have one on his truck for $400.

I guess push comes to shove, I get the spare tire/wheel exposed so that all that has to be done is have the spare swapped out.

Tire/wheel it is.