Flat tires suck

[ZBTstang]

1058172

Yesterday got my oil changed at one of those quick lube places (lack the resources at home to do it myself) and they put some air in my tires and the whole other nine yards.
Well later that night im leaving work and my jeep it pulling to one side real bad, of course I knew it had to be a tire. Well now my passanger side front tire is dead flat. I wont have a problem changing it or anything, however now that im putting on the full size spare on, will it ride alot different till I get it balanaced and alligned?[addsig]

 

[hi_c]

1058186

Depends... on how worn your other 3 tires are in comparison to the spare. Typically, if you have 5 equal size tires, they should all 5 be rotated around in order to maintain proper tread wear. You usually have to specify this to the quick lube guys or else they will take the easy road and just rotate the 4 on the axles. As far as balancing goes, it's a good idea to get it balanced, but not necessarily required. I've seen tires that need no additional balancing weights and then there are tires that need heavy weights to balance. Take the time to get that one tire balanced. Alignmend is not as important when swapping in a spare tire.

HTH

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