What do most people do? Do you assume you will be able to change a tyre yourself? Or assume you need to ring a professional?
Changing a wheel is one thing I know I can do. The first time I needed it done, I'd just been visiting my dad and was still very near his house, so I called him instead of a professional, and watched what he did. The second time, I thought 'well, it didn't look too hard', got out the spare wheel kit, and found it had actual instructions, so no problem.
For more or less anything else I'd ring a professional, though! And I take your point that if you're on the hard shoulder with cars whizzing past at 70mph even something you can do might not be so trivial; in my own wheel-changing situations I was (respectively) in a car park and in Owen's driveway.
no subject
Date: 2014-02-26 06:39 pm (UTC)Changing a wheel is one thing I know I can do. The first time I needed it done, I'd just been visiting my dad and was still very near his house, so I called him instead of a professional, and watched what he did. The second time, I thought 'well, it didn't look too hard', got out the spare wheel kit, and found it had actual instructions, so no problem.
For more or less anything else I'd ring a professional, though! And I take your point that if you're on the hard shoulder with cars whizzing past at 70mph even something you can do might not be so trivial; in my own wheel-changing situations I was (respectively) in a car park and in Owen's driveway.