Anyone replaced their unused spare tire due to age?

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Better to find out at home than on the shoulder or worse. My 01 spare was the original. The 02 has a spare. It has air in it. I need to examine it better. All the other cars - with spares in the trunk are original. the 99 and 2000 BMW are on Matching Alloys from factory, the 01 has a smaller spare, but not a midget donut. The 05 R53 Mini came runflat, but is on non-runflat with a full size spare at home.
 

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Better to find out at home than on the shoulder or worse. My 01 spare was the original. The 02 has a spare. It has air in it. I need to examine it better. All the other cars - with spares in the trunk are original. the 99 and 2000 BMW are on Matching Alloys from factory, the 01 has a smaller spare, but not a midget donut. The 05 R53 Mini came runflat, but is on non-runflat with a full size spare at home.
Yea - yea..... Planning to get the spare down, service the whole deal and if needed... probably replace the tire......
 

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Our 2005 Suburban 2500 had the original spare on it. So when I went to buy tires for it and tires for my daughter's 2003 Sierra, I bought a new spare and had the tire shop swap it out. We were be going to be making a long drive, and I figured it was better to have the hoist die at a tire shop than on the side of the road. The hoist was amazingly functional. So, they can be a real bear to deal with, but even after 20 years most of them seem to work as intended. But I am down south. I figure the rust belt has some real nightmares.
 

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