Just need to vent...

I have accumulated more first-hand failure experience now than 40 years ago, and have a better idea what to watch for.

 

Luckily for me the 15 inch Prius wheels are not too heavy. My wife's Subaru wheels are a bit heavier. At 81 I can still handle the job and should for the next few years.

JeffD

 

I call those "Adult-proof" containers......

 

Worked with a lot of teak oil in shipyards many years ago - & have some teak furniture as well. As that stuff begins to thicken / coagulate inside those caps - it becomes impossible to remove, due to the cap's safety feature & the oil turning to a form of glue. But for its cost - it's almost worth throwing out.

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I worked with a man much older than me. He could take an apple in his hands and twist it into two perfect halves. Seemingly with little effort. I’ve tried and nothing happens.
Now I am getting even weaker. Sometimes I use diagonal wire cutters to snip at the caps.

 

Yes. Getting weaker is a PITA as well as less flexibility getting into and out of a car. I now choose to sit up as much as possible to make seeing driving easier. One thing that helps men is to link light exercise to daily activities. When you wash your hair do squats, when you brush your teeth stretch your hamstrings....and do 25 counter pushups before and after...then rinse.

 

I have three herniated disk so I can not longer handle the bigger wheels (like in my Tundra) but I can, still, manage those on our Prius. I just sit right down near the tire hub and roll the tire onto my lap and place it on...seems to work pretty good. I've, also, seen folks use shovels to lift them up for installation but you need quite a bit of room for that.

Concerning the spare tire issue, I added one to my AWD Prius and will do the same with my wife's Corolla AWD Hybrid comes in....it's been on order since the first week in May and, still, no build date, much less a transit date. My salesmen said, at this point, we'll probably just end up with a 2025 so hoping there's no big changes on colors or options or, most of all, that MSRP....we'll see.

 

one things for certain, when we die it's because something or multiple aspects of stuff wore out. Will it be a kidneys? the brain? the immune system? who knows. At one time there was an nary a jar that was ever even given any consideration.