I ordered the refresh MSLR Modern Spare complete kit around 8 months ago, targeting a cross-country road trip I took in August from Boston to Sturgis, SD (for Motorcycle Week) and back. They didn't ship in time for the trip, but I didn't end up needing it for the trip (thank goodness). After that it just sat, unopened, in my garage.
Until today, when I ran over something with my passenger rear OEM tire (30K on 'em) and made a BIG hole. Fortunately I was only 15 minutes from home, and my helpful wife ran the Modern Spare kit out to me. So this was an unboxing under pressure.
I couldn't be more pleased with the experience. Here's the old tire:
Note the jack handle is a ratchet that made it super-easy to jack up the car. JUST enough clearance with the suspension in the highest setting it would let me use.
After jacking it up, next stop was removing the lug nuts. Easy peasy, the long handle gave me plenty of torque and just a gentle push was all it took to loosen the lugs.
Old wheel off:
And Modern Spare on:
Drives great with the Spare, I'll just leave it on until my new four new Conti Procontact RX's arrive at Electrified Garage in NH before the end of the month, and my appt. to install them is Dec. 6th.
This was so much better than having to deal with a flatbed.
Until today, when I ran over something with my passenger rear OEM tire (30K on 'em) and made a BIG hole. Fortunately I was only 15 minutes from home, and my helpful wife ran the Modern Spare kit out to me. So this was an unboxing under pressure.
I couldn't be more pleased with the experience. Here's the old tire:
Note the jack handle is a ratchet that made it super-easy to jack up the car. JUST enough clearance with the suspension in the highest setting it would let me use.
After jacking it up, next stop was removing the lug nuts. Easy peasy, the long handle gave me plenty of torque and just a gentle push was all it took to loosen the lugs.
Old wheel off:
And Modern Spare on:
Drives great with the Spare, I'll just leave it on until my new four new Conti Procontact RX's arrive at Electrified Garage in NH before the end of the month, and my appt. to install them is Dec. 6th.
This was so much better than having to deal with a flatbed.