What do you do if you have a flat tire

[TJCJr9999]

New Cybertruck owner of only a week. I hadn't really thought about this until I picked up the Cybertruck and noticed there is no spare.
It's not like you can carry a donut . What does one do if you have a flat? Will AAA do anything? Would you have to get a tow?

My beast is my seventh and last truck. I normally put over 200,000 miles on all my trucks, last Toyota Toyota tundra had 220,000 thousand miles on it and I never got stuck with a flat tire mostly because I just keep an eye on the tire pressure monitor sensors. I’ve picked up plenty of nails and they are all slow leaks so when I notice I picked up a nail I just Keep the tire pressure up by refilling it, then go plug it. once I had a Cooper tire disintegrate on me but luckily the bead stayed on the wheel so I could hobble home just on the beads of the tire on the wheels and it didn’t destroy the wheels. for my beast, I throw one of my extra tires in the bed just in case I get stuck on a long trip and I have a couple of bottle jacks and I have my impact driver in the Smugglers compartment. And For those pickups that have spare tires on the chain hitch underneath the bed, make sure you grease the heaven out of it because on my last tundra, I didn’t grease it and it rusted so solid, I had to hack saw the spare out of there.

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[CallsignVega]

It is not 100%. Have you ever tried to remove Tesla wheel bolts? Or torque them to 129 ft-lbs.? I have done so multiple times to install accessories like a tow hitch on an MS. Cannot be done under normal roadside circumstances by a normal driver.

If you can't take off a lug nut with a lug nut wrench at a measly 129ft/lbs, you might want to hit the gym. My other trucks use 150-160 ft/lbs and still not a problem.

 

[mitch9]

Speaking of Abstract Ocean, they have these Threaded Lug Guides, which are a big help when lifting a 75 pound tire & wheel and trying to get it on the lugs, they recomend 2, but one works as well.. once the wheel is sitting on the studs, you can unthread the guide.

https://www.abstractocean.com/products/threaded-lug-guide

 

[desertmarcy]

Speaking of Abstract Ocean, they have these Threaded Lug Guides, which are a big help when lifting a 75 pound tire & wheel and trying to get it on the lugs, they recomend 2, but one works as well.. once the wheel is sitting on the studs, you can unthread the guide.

https://www.abstractocean.com/products/threaded-lug-guide

What a cool idea! Looks very helpful, thanks.

 

[AO-Pete]

fyi. Much cheaper variants on Amazon.

I don't doubt it, there always is, but they're not the same quality. It's easy to make stuff cheaper, but there's always a compromise in quality; the tools from Steelman are top notch.

 

[AO-Pete]

Speaking of Abstract Ocean, they have these Threaded Lug Guides, which are a big help when lifting a 75 pound tire & wheel and trying to get it on the lugs, they recommend 2, but one works as well.. once the wheel is sitting on the studs, you can unthread the guide.

https://www.abstractocean.com/products/threaded-lug-guide

I still recommend two; when I was doing the caliper covers for Cybertruck, I could only find one, and instantly regretted it. The AT wheels are really heavy.

 

[TexasRaider]

My beast is my seventh and last truck. I normally put over 200,000 miles on all my trucks, last Toyota Toyota tundra had 220,000 thousand miles on it and I never got stuck with a flat tire mostly because I just keep an eye on the tire pressure monitor sensors. I’ve picked up plenty of nails and they are all slow leaks so when I notice I picked up a nail I just Keep the tire pressure up by refilling it, then go plug it. once I had a Cooper tire disintegrate on me but luckily the bead stayed on the wheel so I could hobble home just on the beads of the tire on the wheels and it didn’t destroy the wheels. for my beast, I throw one of my extra tires in the bed just in case I get stuck on a long trip and I have a couple of bottle jacks and I have my impact driver in the Smugglers compartment. And For those pickups that have spare tires on the chain hitch underneath the bed, make sure you grease the heaven out of it because on my last tundra, I didn’t grease it and it rusted so solid, I had to hack saw the spare out of there.

Ditto.
(Plus for everyday driving I now have AAA. You use it once and it’s worth the yearly cost.)

 

[koolio]

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I bet you could do it but I keep a Milwaukee m18 impact driver in my truck with an attachment which I believe Abstract Ocean sells that’s perfectly sized for the wheels.

Out of curiosity, how do you set the foot pounds of torque if you were to tighten the nut on the wheel?

 

[hemiarch]

Out of curiosity, how do you set the foot pounds of torque if you were to tighten the nut on the wheel?

I don’t. At home I use a torque wrench after a hit or two with the impact. In an emergency I’d be satisfied with “tight”

 

[hemiarch]

fyi. Much cheaper variants on Amazon.

That’s fair. I just thought it’d be easier to recommend a variant where the homework of sleeve size and so forth had been done already.

 

[Cyberskunk]

That’s fair. I just thought it’d be easier to recommend a variant where the homework of sleeve size and so forth had been done already.

I have just wrapped tape around an impact socket in a pinch but have a set of sleeved lug sockets now.

No special sleeve diameter, it just keeps the socket metal from touching the wheel.


https://www.amazon.com/Steelman-956...e+metric+21mm+deep+socket,aps,255&sr=8-3&th=1

 

[hemiarch]

I have just wrapped tape around an impact socket in a pinch but have a set of sleeved lug sockets now.

No special sleeve diameter, it just keeps the socket metal from touching the wheel.


https://www.amazon.com/Steelman-95615-04-21mm-Sleeved-Socket/dp/B079V2VXHZ/ref=sr_1_3?crid=37O4LSVKHX5YQ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MWVydJs5Mu43BV6EnJdo2fvIk9vmmW4zPnM-sN6mAdjKMqCRj11Z40kfAnq38pUqFe_UUtvQ3jsBsLm7eU4x4wKCvHykQh9m0uIxyaJoX6LgKlBjYtLi1TkJa6ZGBjqtshoWE_IIMILMl6eC-qtAiUXiNJ_AShVZODGDrXqyfvWeUgCXjXQWOFIaJuZpqUuCI9J3bWiWsm9krE0BMxmjZrMENDxEUaCrrqpy6bqwp5rXAZZoalJhXlbzJkTfGqf1wwIQnrf7bQ-quqEuRLhzLvdZy6oNgd0wlrT8pDvrTFA.ez50bvfMQHFXWV6J46GhBrOv6wiw3N20QmCcHnAeAQc&dib_tag=se&keywords=STEELMAN+Sleeved+1/2-in+Drive+Metric+21mm+Deep+Socket&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1771103835&sprefix=steelman+sleeved+1/2-in+drive+metric+21mm+deep+socket,aps,255&sr=8-3&th=1

Good link. And incidentally the same price and looks like product as Pete’s.
https://www.abstractocean.com/products/21mm-sleeved-socket

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