What To Do When You Have A Flat Tyre And No Spare?

Wouldn't it be astonishing if you could choose where you should have a flat tyre? Then you'd be moving towards a service station or tyre shop and suddenly notice the flat tyre… Perfect!

Clearly, the chances of this are as difficult as winning the lottery, so it's an undeniable risk that we will all eventually encounter a flat tire in a bad neighborhood. This may occur on the freeway, a crowded road during peak hour, or perhaps literally in the middle of nowhere on a road trip!

What actually is flat tyre?

A flat tire is something that no one wants because a punctured tire will leave you stranded alongside the road. At the point when a tire loses all its air, it loses its lightness and the capacity to support the weight of the car. Unless the tire is an exceptional sort of tire called a "run-flat", the sidewalls are not sufficiently solid to support the heaviness of the car unless there is a certain amount of air pressure inside the tire. So a puncture or leak that allows the tire to lose air will cause the tire to collapse and go flat.

What to do when you have a flat tyre?

• You should slow down and pull over your car to the side of the road when it is safe to do so. Try not to stop in the middle of the road, particularly if you are on a bustling highway or expressway.

• Pull off on the RIGHT side of the road, and make an attempt to get your vehicle as far away from the highway as possible. This will ideally diminish the danger of somebody running into your stopped vehicle. It will also leave some room if a tire on the left side of your vehicle should be changed.
  
  
• Turn on your danger flashers so different drivers will see you. Raising the hood is additionally a smart thought as this is universal signal for help.

• If you are stuck with a flat tyre at night or there is poor visibility, and you have a safety flare, reflective triangle or portable warning light in your trunk, place one of these safety warning devices some distance behind your car to alert oncoming drivers.
  

You now need to choose whether to change the flat tyre yourself, or to call for help. If you have never shown the signs of changing a flat tyre, or you do not have the physical capacity to do as such or your vehicle has no jack or spare tyre, the decision has already been made for you that you should call for help, or wait for help to arrive. In a few regions, there might be call boxes placed at intervals along expressways that a stranded motorist can use to call for help.

BE CAREFUL because you don't always know the motives of a person who may be offering to help you. Most people are good. But some are not.