back in March for the first time in my 29 year driving career I had a tire blow out due to cord separation while I was driving down the expressway to pick my nephew up from school. I got safely to the right shoulder by an on off ramp but it was very narrow due to snow banks half way up the windows on my SUV. After taking a look I knew there was no way I or anyone else could could change the tire there. So I called AAA. First A very nice young man came in a pickup to check things out. He said he couldn't change it even if there was room because with my spare being under the car the wheel was rusty & AAA policy prohibits it since a rusty wheel could make the spare blow too & cause a worse accident. So be ware all those who have these dumb spare under the car things. As the daughter of a mechanic I knew that wasn't ideal but I had checked the spare & greased the holder in the fall & it was good then. Anyway he told me to sit tight & he'd send a tow truck. When he came he was awesome. traffic was bad but he made sure I was safe in his clean warm truck first then he fearlessly loaded my truck on his & took us both to the tire shop the son of an old family friend runs. Soon I was back on the road 5 *s