Spare tire

[Easyrider949]

Well, the unthinkable just happened in the first week (1,300 miles on vehicle) of my 6 week National Parks trip, we were arriving into Sun Valley ID (Ketchum) when we hit two pot holes that we did not see (due to a car immediately ahead of us at 15-20 mph) and immediately our tire lights came on indicating low pressure and a flat. At first I thought it was only 1 tire and I had the ez spare in the frunk, but no, it was 2 tires on the right side. I immediately pulled into a center turn lane and stopped, then I called Lucid Customer Care to figure out what to do next. I was able to pull into someone’s driveway to get off the road. First, let me say Lucid Customer Care was fantastic! They were in contact with me multiple times letting me know what was going to be the game plan. They first reached out to a towing company to have my car towed 18 miles away to store for overnight due to the time of day (4:00pm), second they decided to have a local tire shop in Hailey ID to do the new tire R&R, but they need to find out if they have the 21” front & back tires available, if not Lucid is willing to overnight the tires to shop today for delivery on Thursday. One other option was to dispatch a tech van from Utah or Denver, but that was going to take too long as I was only staying in Sun Valley for 5 nights and we were able to get a rental car for 4 days during repairs. So when you think you might never get a flat tire other factors can come into play. Here our some pictures:

 

[MPawelek]

Is it just me or is it crazy getting 2 blowouts on pot holes that shallow?

 

[Demosthenes]

Those pot holes look gnarly to me! But two flats from a single encounter does suck

 

[hydbob]

Is it just me or is it crazy getting 2 blowouts on pot holes that shallow?

Looks can be deceiving. Approach angle + 1500 lbs/wheel + whatever else the tire gods throw your way

 

[Polar Bear]

The kit from Griot's Garage says you can only drive up to 55 mph for 125 miles.

The Fix and Go (aka Lucid) kit says 65 mph for 600 miles.

I'm thinking it might worth spending the extra money for the Lucid kit. We're all spending enough on this car. What's an extra $50 or so?

Again Polar Bear thanks you Neurio for your comments, Totally agreed and ordered the Fix and Go LUCID kit today. My AGT was picked up today to repaint an ever small blemish on top of trunk lid which wasn’t caught on inspection. LUCID came with a boxed trailer to take Juno (my name for AGT is the polar bear in Toronto zoo). Was debating on the spare tire but this forum was superb in educational comments. Thank YOU all !!!!