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Old 08-03-2010, 02:18 PM   #26 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by NiHaoMike View Post
The PHEV Prius has a tire repair kit instead of a spare tire.
I have a problem with that. These days, with steel & kevlar belts and all that, I almost never get a flat in the tread area. It's usually a piece of road debris punching a thumb-sized hole in the sidewall, and I don't believe that there's a repair kit that will fix that sort of damage.

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Not very easy but real hypermilers should try to do it. After all, obesity wastes gas...
Well, I'd need a sex change to achieve THAT, but my waist measurement is less than either hips or chest. Which is an irritation sometimes: I get SO tired of shirts that fit like tents.
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