In the bucket of “Bad Car Purchase Surprises," finding out your pre-owned vehicle doesn’t have a spare tire on board would be at the top of the list if the discovery happened while stuck on the side of the road. Immobile and desperate is never a great situation to be in.
Thankfully, TikToker Andrea Crisalli (@andrea.crisalli) wasn’t in any kind of precarious position when she learned her 2022 Honda Accord hybrid came without a spare tire. But she still wasn’t happy about her mechanic’s discovery and took to the video platform to share her feelings about it.
“Honda, what the hell is this?” she asked, holding up a patch and inflation kit in the video that’s been viewed more than 72,000 times. “I don't know if you got the memo; most of the times that I'm rolling down the highway and I blow a tire, it's not a little pinhole that I can just stick this thing in and fix it. It blows apart.”
Are Spare Tires No Longer Standard?
Crisalli's frustration struck a nerve with viewers, but the sympathy quickly gave way to a heated debate over whether hybrid owners should expect a spare tire in the first place.
