Carry a Spare Tire or Sealing Kits?

[Nikas Zekeval]

So, especially early on, if you get heavily into looting you can find yourself looking for that extra bit of room.

And I started considering "Do I carry a spare tire, or just a couple sealing kits to patch anything till I get back?" Spare here means the best tire you can make, and hopefully matches the rest of your wheels.

Tires are more bulky, 3x3 vs 2x2 for kits, and you can't stack a few in the same spot like I believe you can with sealing kits. OTOH if you get a tire sufficiently trashed, there might be little for the kit to seal.

Plus the kits are a possible on going expense, though at least the glass, duct tape, and rubber is no further than the nearest wrecked car. One crude door (duct tape and glass) and a tire and you are in business. And most wrecks have two tires if both are spares and you get unlucky on what drops.

[Nikas Zekeval]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tod Soldat:

If you're that full on things why not just craft a new tire?

Huh, let me check. I thought the portable station in your car couldn't make one.

Edit:
And back, just checked. You can craft the basic Spare Tire, but nothing more advanced with the craft mat in the back of the car. Not even a Summer Tire, much less an Off Road one.

There is a blueprint for upgrading the craft mat to a mobile workbench, but it needs corrupted energy by the guide I'm seeing.

OTOH I also recall sometimes finding workbenches in gas stations. Which explains what they are for with that limitation.

[LongshipOarperator793]

I used to carry two spare Offroad Tires, until I get the Puncture-Proof Tires then I stopped carrying spare tires. PP Tires only get loose, and takes a dozen of runs to get bald. But i rather like the idea of bring spare tires and switching them out, like a proper roadtrip, mostly for muh immersion, idk.

[Abyssal Crow]

Build higher tier tires in the garage and bring those, bring at least 2 when you get a roof storage or upgrade your trunk. You can sealing kit a puncture but you can't sealing kit a bald or blown out wheel.

[Nikas Zekeval]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Tod Soldat:

Sorry, I've never had to do it and figured it was an option. I know there are crafting benches out in the wild, like over by the anomaly you have to jump through to get back to base (it sits in a gas station).

I recall seeing them as well, and added that to the edit while you were posting. IIRC the HUD identified them as basic work benches, good enough for up to OR Tires.

But given you just need a bit of plastic and rubber, you can craft an emergency tire if things really get messed up. Or multiple since I doubt anything that can trash a tire will get just one.

A bit of a risk in terms of having the material if you try to live off the land like that. Unless you throw a bit of the raw material into your car 'just in case'.

[i dont want to be around anymore]

You can stack 3 sealing kits and 3 mechanical kits in less space than one single spare tire

[Eric4bz]

I carry 3 mechanic kits and 6 sealing kits with a spare set of off road tires in case of a blow out.

[Permyack]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Nikas Zekeval:

So, especially early on, if you get heavily into looting you can find yourself looking for that extra bit of room.

And I started considering "Do I carry a spare tire, or just a couple sealing kits to patch anything till I get back?" Spare here means the best tire you can make, and hopefully matches the rest of your wheels.

Tires are more bulky, 3x3 vs 2x2 for kits, and you can't stack a few in the same spot like I believe you can with sealing kits. OTOH if you get a tire sufficiently trashed, there might be little for the kit to seal.

Plus the kits are a possible on going expense, though at least the glass, duct tape, and rubber is no further than the nearest wrecked car. One crude door (duct tape and glass) and a tire and you are in business. And most wrecks have two tires if both are spares and you get unlucky on what drops.

It can be a matter of situation. Locations are different and it also makes a difference.
Maybe early in the game this will all be tolerable, but when you get better wheels, you're better off using them rather than relying on spare-spare tires.
Mud tires can be unlocked fairly early on, and in my opinion they are quite good for all conditions as long as they don't get damaged. You are better off having at least one mud tire to spare.

[Permyack]

Ursprungligen skrivet av LongshipOarperator793:

I used to carry two spare Offroad Tires, until I get the Puncture-Proof Tires then I stopped carrying spare tires. PP Tires only get loose, and takes a dozen of runs to get bald. But i rather like the idea of bring spare tires and switching them out, like a proper roadtrip, mostly for muh immersion, idk.

The only good thing about these tires is that they don't get punctures. But they just have a terrible off-road rating.

[barysnikov]

I like to have a spare tire and the kits. If I’m in a tight spot, I’ll just swap the tire, if I’ve got some room to breathe I’ll fix on the spot.

I’d also recommend making a list of items you won’t be needing soon. It helps when skimming off stuff to make space. I have like 500 scrap metal in the shop, so I don’t intentionally pick it up anymore (it just comes in the containers I drain).

I’m only at “visions” in the storyline though, so maybe I’ll be forced to reevaluate myself. I’m quite obsessed with this little car….

[Nikas Zekeval]

Ursprungligen skrivet av barysnikov:

I like to have a spare tire and the kits. If I’m in a tight spot, I’ll just swap the tire, if I’ve got some room to breathe I’ll fix on the spot.

I’d also recommend making a list of items you won’t be needing soon. It helps when skimming off stuff to make space. I have like 500 scrap metal in the shop, so I don’t intentionally pick it up anymore (it just comes in the containers I drain).

This might depend on where you are in teching up as well. For example if you have something beyond crude doors, panels, and bumpers available? Duct Tape is basically left for just new prybars, and the mechanic, sealing, and first aid kits.

Duct tape, so important NASA sent it up with Apollo, used to build a CO2 Filer (13) and a replacement Moon Rover fender (17). As one alien race called it in a Sci-Fi series, "The Human Universal Fixing Substance"

[Acierocolotl]

I bring three sealing kits. If I can be arsed I'll make some replacement sealing kits in the field, but... if there's none, there's none, and I'm driving on the rim. That's what the tire gets for blowing out on me.

With the first upgraded engine, and especially all-purposes tires, one tire down doesn't slow you too much. It's mostly inconvenient.

[Mattrex]

I typically bring two spare off-road tires and a stack of three sealing kits. And I've had runs where I've gone through all of them; when it rains, it pours. I've actually begun considering bringing two full stacks of sealing kits, because they're used not only for tires, but also doors, backseat batteries, and backseat fuel tanks.

[Mitrovarr]

You absolutely need sealing kits, as you'll get loads of flats, and could easily get more than one in a trip. A bad crash will also break windows, which also fix with sealing kits, and sometimes external batteries get oxidized which also fixes with them. So you really, really want sealing kits.

Once you start to go on longer expeditions you want at least one extra tire too, but I'd take the tier of tire you're actually using, not spare (spare tires suck, and you could just make one anyway). You only use the spare if you get either "bald" or "blown out" on the tire.