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Hi,

The front tyres on my wife's year old car were down to 3mm, with snow being forcast. I persuaded her to fit new tyres.

While in the tyre bay, I asked the fitter to let me keep one of the old tyres, so I could fit it to another wheel - when I found one. He wandered into a corner, came back with an old wheel. We checked it for similarity to the car's wheels, and tested it on a hub. He fitted our discarded tyre, and dropped it into the recess in the boot floor. Charged us £2.

So now she has a usable spare tyre, AND a can of snotty stuff. I painted the spare wheel red, so she will be reminded to not drive too far on it. That wheel and tyre have since been moved into her replacement car.

If you have alloy wheels, and go down this route, make sure that you have suitable wheel nuts for steel wheels.

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If you have alloy wheels, and go down this route, make sure that you have suitable wheel nuts for steel wheels.

good point the tyre fitter had to leave our peugeot 206 on bricks overnight when he came to the house because we did not have these.the spare was a steel one.