Trunk jack

Inkara1 wrote: I have a scissor jack I got at Home Depot. It was like $30. Only rated for 1.5 tons, but that's enough for changing a tire.

Very good, that sounds like a great idea, and it might fit better than the OEM jack did. I'd like that for mine, it could fit in the space behind the seats and under the bed.

[Besides here in Texas, there is a Tire Shop almost every 3/4 of a mile anywhere local that I would be driving the Torino (as well as probably 2 donut shops between them)]

Since I have a travel trailer and drive up to 1200 miles one way a couple times a year, I carry AAA Premium RV, State Farm Roadside, GoodSam Premium, as well as "family" roadside on my F250 which covers like triple A. They all cover tires on both vehicle and trailers. (My insurance and Good Sam also covers moving the travel trailer separate from the truck). 

I figure if I'm ever on the side of the road, I'll call all 4, and whomever wins, wins. (I've heard of crazy wait times for any of these services.)

To think of it, I believe some of my credit cars also have some kind of road side coverage as well.

Okay, Pete wins, he has all the roadside services you could want.

I stopped having AAA when the price went up from $79. I carry my tire repair kit and an air pump, and I've only had to change a tire once. That was around 2008 and the tire had a very large rock in it. Three plugs didn't stop the leak, so I had to use the OEM bottle jack and swap the spare on. I've repaired easily 150 tires from nails and screws etc, which takes about ten minutes at most to fix. I'd try that for my cars if I have these tools with me. They stay in my work truck all the time, a 12v Milwaukee air pump and the Noco jump battery in a case that holds tire repair tools. Now Noco makes an all in one tool that has a jump battery with an air pump in it($300 on Amazon),  "NOCO-Boost-Air-AX65-Compressor."