Originally Posted by
elCheapoDeluxe
Interesting. I had no idea tow trucks were equipped to remove a tire, install a patch, and remount a tire (possibly needing re balancing afterward). That's what it takes to properly patch a tire. Or do they just use one of those "plug it from the outside" things that the tire shops all say never to use?
My experience was that they simply put the spare on and tossed the flat one in the trunk.. The next morning I car-swapped at a nearby rental location.
It was a late 90's Ford, and I owned a very similar Ford at the time. I could've changed the tire myself but I was concerned at the time that doing so would violate my contract. The "don't try to fix rental cars" was posted on the same page on our company's internal network as "don't book hidden city, back-to-back, etc." I figured it was a no-no.