learned something new... shaving perfectly good new tires down to wear them out.

 

Yeah I believe TireRack will do it. I will ask them.

Yeah seems counter intuitive lol. If you think about it though the alternative is to throw away a perfectly good tire at 8/32nds by replacing two…

 

Ugh, that stinks. I assume your spare is basically brand new, given how new the van is...? Otherwise I'd say buy the other new tire and use the 8/32 one as your new spare. Tough call on what to do. Sucks feeling like you're throwing away $400 or so on a tire just so it is brand new to match the other one.

 

I've never heard of shaving a tire; interesting. And in your case this might be the option that makes the most sense from a couple of lenses.

 

No spare on the van! No spare, no runflats.

 

Same for all 4 of our vehicles. Though admittedly two of them did come from the factory with runflats, which have long since been replaced by real tires.

 

Most of mine have real spares, S4/LS have full on matching rims. A8s have compact spares, trucks have full size steels. Phaeton has a deployable "full size" thing that is quite clever but if that loses a tire I'm just going to use AAA

 

I was walking by a Honda dealer in downtown Bethesda with some people headed to lunch and they were taking a car off a flatbed with a flat tire...does anybody else think its totally ridiculous that a flat tire requires your car to be flatbedded to the dealer now?!

 

No, if you saw what some people do you would be saying "thank god they actually bothered to tow it". I've seen them just drive in a rim to the dealers!

 

Well yeah but you see my point right? Not having a spare tire is ridiculous.

I'm actually thinking of buying one of these spare kits for each car. I wouldn't carry them around every day but throw them in when we travel. If one of us had a flat locally the other could get the tire to us to keep us rolling.

https://ezsparewheel.com/

https://modernspare.com/

The modern spare kit is actually rated for speeds up to 80 MPH and longer distances. That would get me home from WV, for instance. Imagine the nightmare, in the Mercedes with a flat in WV. I would be trapped there until I could get an appropriate tire and then I would have to have it mounted in some po-dunk place. Vs being able to come home and deal with it here.

 

haha. I have been saying that forever. A full size spare just makes sense. I have them on both my SUVs with a matching wheel. Supposed to have 5 tire rotation too

you have finally realized all of this.

 

What’s wrong with putting the new tire on one of the rear wheels? Unshaved.

I could understand shaving it if I had an all-wheel-drive car.

 

I don't so much care about a full sized spare I just want some kind of spare. Even when I had full sized spares I never rotated them in.

 

it is just pointless to have a temp spare. Might as well just go all the way and a full time. You will come around on that too. LOL

 

The last car I had with a full sized spare was my 1994 GS300. The Civic has a donut spare and the IS250/350s did too.