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The air suspension is height adjustable with damping. This is not airbag suspension like in a big truck. It uses a cylinder that can adjust the air pressure above and below the cylinder independently which means a jack stand should be sufficient to raise the wheel.
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It's my policy to always have a spare tire in any vehicle I own. I omitted that from the other post. I would have a spare tire, low profile jack and my Earthquake impact driver with various sockets. I generally have a bag with other tools I might need too. Prob most of this stuff will fit in the various storage compartments without having to take up bed space.
 
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‪CyberTruck Owners Club is discussing tire jacks. Since the CyberTruck has an air compressor why not build in air jacks similar to an Indy race car?‬
Yeah, the Mach 5 Cyber truck.
 

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I was wondering recently, since the CT has air suspension with an 8" range, would we need anything other than a simplified jack stand to change a tire?
Interestingly, The Model X had a tire change/jack mode. Im certain that if its still present in the Model X, it will be in the cybertruck. Essentially the car would just lower the opposite wheels, and raise the other suspension. This cause the car to tilt so one wheel would be completely off the ground and could be serviced.
 

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If there is a spare tire, where do you think they are going to store it? Or do you think they will just go with a tire repair kit and use the onboard compressor to re-inflate the tire until a replacement can be procured?
 


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In a way, that is true (range, anyway). At 500 miles possible range, losing 100 miles is a "so what" in many cases. Now a Leaf, with 76 miles range losing 15 miles (approx. 20%) could mean the difference between making your round trip to work or being stranded.

Range anxiety ain't what it used to be. :)
 

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Seems like if the Air Suspension wasn't enough to get the jack stand level you wanted, you could provide additional lift with one of the off road air jacks since it would also serve the dual use of being usable for off road recovery situations. Here's an amazon link to an example.

 

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With the RFT (run flat tire) ... never need a jack because I had a flat on 95 near Miami... and run through Jensen Beach at 60 MPH... and the day after I went to the tire store...!!! You can run up to 300 miles with a flat... Unbelievable... but real.
Did you see somewhere that the stock cybertruck tires are going to be Run-Flats? I'm also wondering how many guys in the off road community use run-flats? Im assuming there are some tradeoffs to using them, although I don' t personally have any experience with them on trucks, only Skid Steers, which we have had great luck with.

I am very interested in the new Bridgestone Run Flat concept.
 

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