My car had no spare when I purchased it but I was fortunate enough to locate one on evilBay and had it shipped from CA to Melbourne.
Sure is a strange looking beast and I'm wondering if anyone has ever either inflated one, or had to use one as an actual spare tyre?
Seems to me that the tread section is quite tight and that if it was inflated and the sidewalls of the spare folded up and created the 'balloon' that the treaded section would have to stretch terribly to accomodate the fully inflated final diameter.
Also, once inflated, how does it go down again. As it loses air presure, does the tyre naturally regain it's compressed state and fold the sidewall back in upon itself?
Finally, how does one inflate it? I'm aware that the car would have had a canister of air and have seen pictures of such, but in this modern era, all of these inflation canisters appear to have adhesive in them and are more designed for roadside repairs rather than just inflation.
I know off road motor cycles use small canisters of Co2 to inflate tyres on the fly, but these are very small and it would take a dozen to inflate a car tyre.
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