Are your spare tires full of air?

My recent flat-tire incident inspired me to check the pressure of the temporary spare tire in my wife's Mini. This was a bad and good idea.

Bad idea first, because I discovered that finding the spare tire and getting it out required a full-engineering degree and also good idea, because the spare tire, after years of ignoring its existence was as flat as a pancake.

My advice to all readers of this blog: Get under your cars and check if you have a spare tire; if you can find out where it hides, learn how to take it down and if check if there's enough air in them.

Do it sooner than later, because later might be at night, on a rainy evening, on the wrong side of a busy highway (that's happened to me before)!