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Originally Posted by rdunk
I guess that you folks like to change your own tires, just for the fun of it. 
Me, I plan to never have to change a tire on the tow vehicle, nor on the 5er. In the over two years of fulltiming, we have only had one tire problem, on the tow vehicle. I called the Good Sam's "Emergency Road Service", which we buy yearly, and the service tech arrived to help within about an hour. Had it fixed within about two hours.
To me, this type of "insured service" is really very cheap, considering the alternative of having the kind of "fun" all of you are talking about!!! 
And besides that, those extra hydraulic jacks are pretty heavy to carry around, even though I have one "standard issue" that Ford puts in F350.
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We've carried Good Sam ERS for many years and had the first "opportunity" to see them perform on Friday, July 13th when we lost a tire on the 5th wheel. We were at mile marker 185 on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas - hardly an untraveled backroad - when the tire failed at 9:00 AM. After 1.5 hours, the GS rep said that she couldn't find anyone who would come out to change the tire, so I wound up changing it myself.
So, just because one might have GS ERS, that's no guarantee that the tire is going to get changed by others. Based on my experience, you'd better be prepared to take care of the situation yourself. Glad I was!!
Rusty