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While in Alaska two years ago one road we came across gave the warning to have extra tires. We've been to this rodeo before where the car makers tried to do away with spares. Wonder how long this evolution will last. Our Alaska trip the score was two truck tires and 6 camper tires. We lost one tire in NM on the truck...road hazard....and one coming back through Canada. The camper tires were most likely a defective trailer axle. This year we lost one tire on the TM, 4 years and 1 week old. Where we had the tire fail there was no cell service also no shoulder on the road either. Its a lot of weight to drag around but we will continue to carry spare tires and at least two bottle jacks, plus wood for leveling where there is no road shoulder.
And on a side note if the feds were real about fuel savings they would take ethanol out of gas. At up to 10% We drop about 3% in gas mileage. Put E85 in the truck, which it is rated for, and we drop from 14 mpg unloaded to 12 mpg.