Cadillac Pit Crew

You guys are probably wondering what we do when we get a flat tire someplace where we're not familiar with our mechanic or somebody who we know to replace the tire. So we kind of got to do it ourselves and that's actually the case we have right now. We have a bubble in our front tire and we got one of the campground heroes, Mr. Bob, helping us out. That's right. We're going to replace the tire. Well we're going to put the spare on because where we are they're pretty proud of their tire prices. It'll cost us about $250 more to get the tire fixed here than if we just go to the Costco and so we're going to put our spare on. We have a really good spare and then I've ordered the tire from Costco and in a couple days we'll be able to have that taken care of. But between now and then we've got to do life and we got a pretty good bubble on the front tire from hitting a pothole. Those of you that live in colder weather climates you know what those potholes look like after a good amount of winter. We fell victim to that and here we go. So this is our front tire and it's got this nice little bubble. If I go from on top you can see how it sticks out. It's about two inches or so. We're going to get this thing fixed. We've got Willis back here getting ready to get going and Mr. Bob, one of our amazing new friends here to help us. Of course it took an act of Congress to get the jack out. While we appreciate everything being tucked away neatly it took a minute to get all of that out. And now to access the spare we had to pull a panel off and now we have to have a special key to get in there. It worked! Is the spare in there or what's that? That'll lower the spare down. Oh it drops it. I haven't. I'm used to opening. I moved all that stuff in the back because I thought we would open the backup and the tire would be in the well. That's what I'm used to. Well thank you Cadillac company for making it fancy. So the tire repair is going pretty smoothly. It's been kind of a crazy day for me especially. I have a mortgage business and I've just got a couple files that just are relentless. So I've spent all morning doing that and then now needing to do this and we're kind of on a time crunch. I've got to leave here at 1 15 to go to an appointment in town that I can't reschedule and I think we've got about 30 minutes so I think we're gonna get it done though. But you know what guys that's just how life is some days right? This is out of our control we just got to go with the flow and I'm so thankful to have friends that are willing to help. We'll get it done. We forgot to video but we got all of our stuff except the tool bag we got all these metal bars and the jack that he's using in here. They have a nice storage compartment and what happens is that goes like that and all of this fits inside. It's really nice. That's where we got all this stuff from. We don't have to carry it around. It fits right in the car which is quite nice and that's probably the coolest tire drop down I've ever seen. I wasn't expecting it. I was because I've changed the tire before but it is extremely cool and I love to watch it every time. It's so fun. It's like where's the spare tire? It's so cool. Yeah we definitely drive on some terrain don't we between roads with potholes because of snow or if we're kind of a little little four by four. I mean we can't we don't go crazy because we don't want to get our car scratched. We've gone crazy before though. Well yeah if it's bumpy it's no big deal. So yeah let's go pay attention. There's a little jack tucked down under there. That's incredible. All right bye-bye. You can see it from the front. The little R stands out. Get out from above. Yeah and you can totally see it. Okay. All right. Let's grab not the cleanest thing in town but 285, 45, 22. 25, 70. 17. What? Yeah you got different tires on here. That's not gonna work is it? Oh my goodness. So we're getting the spare put on. We have upgraded our tires apparently and so the spare isn't exact as far as all the little numbers that you read on the tire well but it's going to be fine. It's going to allow me to get to town this afternoon which is like four miles away and back and then I already ordered the tire last night. We should have it really soon and we'll be able to get you know get this taken care of. Not perfect but it's going to be good enough. All right. We'll see you tonight Bob. Thank you. All right. All right. Just like that we're done for the moment. I feel like I could do that on my own now that I was a part of this pit crew today. I knew kind of how to do it. We had to replace it actually up Montana one time. Doug showed me how to do it so I pretty much knew what to do but I'm very thankful. We had Mr. Cobb. Me too. He had the power tools but we were on a time crunch but we got it done. Mom's going to go to her appointment with her tiny wheel so if you guys enjoyed make sure to hit that subscribe button. Smash the like button. Stay tuned for the next adventure because you never know what trouble we get into. As you see we get into some crazy things sometimes. Wrong sized tire that we've been carrying around with us for years. Like seriously come on. So other than that we hope you guys have a great day and we'll see you on the next adventure.