The spare is the only wheel on the car that nobody ever looks at, and it is the one you will want on the worst day of the year. A full size spare loses pressure like any other tyre, quietly, over years, with no warning light watching it and nobody to notice. Plenty of them are found sitting at half of what they should be. Space savers are worse, because they are inflated to a far higher pressure than the road tyres, commonly around sixty psi, and they lose it just as steadily from a much higher starting point.
The sensible moment to deal with all of that is while the tools are already out. A new set of tyres means the jack is in use, the brace is in somebody's hand and the boot floor is up anyway, so checking the spare, its pressure, its condition and whether the carrier underneath the car still winds down, adds almost nothing to the visit. The same goes for cars supplied with a sealant kit instead of a wheel, because the bottle carries a date and an expired one is a bottle of nothing. We look at it as a matter of course, and we will tell you what we found rather than quietly putting the floor back down.
Just bought the car? The tyres are the first thing worth checking and the last thing anybody looks at. We can come and look while it sits on the drive in Brackenbury, tell you what you actually have, and fit what it needs at a time you pick. The Brackenbury phone and the Goldhawk Road phone ring the same fitter, any hour. Midnight in Goldhawk Road, midday in Uxbridge Road, the same call either way.
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Cars around Wood Lane and the streets off towards Brackenbury spend most of their lives on short local journeys where a flat is an inconvenience rather than a crisis, because we can reach you quickly and the car does not have to move an inch. The spare matters for the other sort of driving: the run out along the A40 Westway and well beyond it, where you are a long way from anybody and the boot floor holds the only help you have. That is the journey worth checking it before, and a fitting visit is the natural moment to do it.
A car having four new tyres fitted near Brackenbury had a full size spare under the boot floor sitting well below its figure. It had not been checked since the car was bought, which is entirely normal and no use at all when you actually need it.
On a 4x4 with the spare slung underneath, the winding mechanism had seized solid with road salt. Finding that out in daylight with somebody there to help is a great deal better than finding it out at the roadside in the dark.
One car had no spare at all, just a compressor and a bottle of sealant that had expired two years earlier. The compressor was in perfect order. The bottle was decoration.
Twice a year is plenty, and the easiest way to remember is to have it looked at whenever anything else is being done to the wheels. It loses air on exactly the same schedule as the tyres you drive on, with nothing monitoring it and nobody ever opening the boot floor.
Much higher than your road tyres, commonly around sixty psi, and the correct figure is printed on the wheel itself or on the tyre. Setting it to the same pressure as the other four leaves you with a spare that is effectively soft from the moment it goes on the car.
Yes, because the sealant has a shelf life and the date is printed on the bottle. Past it, the contents thicken and will not do the job asked of them. The compressor generally outlives several bottles, so it is usually the bottle on its own that needs replacing.
As a matter of course, and you will hear what we found. The boot floor is already up and the jack is already out, so it costs a couple of minutes. It is the cheapest useful check on the car and the one most consistently skipped.
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