MP4.2+6.0

both inside of 100K miles. C5 4.2 on the freeway hitting debris at night in the faster (non truck) lanes, and D3 when my wife encountered the tumbling rock in the Sierra's at dawn, and another time when I took out a sidewall brushing a side curb with some force. Both had full size spares and getting back on road was easy, whether I did the swap or the tow truck driver did. I can recall road side flats on both my C1 and C3 too in much earlier times.

Or, each of the Smart and the Toyota Sienna where the wife took out sidewalls. She had to take BART to SF to buy the Smart odd ball tire size (no spare) at the dealer and stay overnight to get the install done. The Sienna had the winter snows on, which weren't run flats (Sienna AWD has no spare and thus run flats), so I had to bring over another wheel just to get the car home. Then there was the Chrysler AWD I got the flat on at 500 total miles running over a screwdriver some clown dropped on the road.

Yep, that about covers most all the family cars in the last 15 years. Welcome to the SF Bay Area roads, and actually even better when you get in the expensive 'burbs w/ the constant stock market fueled home tear downs and remodels that leave the screws and nails around. Each car has had a couple more tire leaks and patches over the years from that kind of stuff too.

apohis

Our city uses salt and it fuses my wheels to the hubs too. Now when I change my wheels I always slather copper grease on the hubs and wheel lugs to facilitate removal. The good tire shops do that as well.

KDE5FAN MKG

I know this is an old thread, but if you have a car with an inflateable tire like this, I'd buy a pack of schrader valves and the removal tool - you can probably get a set of 5-10 valves and the tool for $5-10 on ebay. Throw that in with the tire kit and if you lose one of the valves while filling/deflating the tire, no big deal. These valves are really easy to use and It'd probably be worth having them in the car either way as I've heard some *** hats pull valves to deflate tires (instead of slashing them). I know the latter is a much less likely scenario but these valves are also used in all kinds of things so they are good to have anyway.

rez

they’re on our 2012 P+.