pulled over to help a family (g'ma/g'pa and 2 grand kids) change a front flat. they were kind of a mess and what they had done was pretty dangerous, i arrived to find they had:
- put their scissor jack in the wrong spot, too far back with too much weight over the front. showed them the notches indicating where it should sit.
- removed flat tire before lowering their spare, only to find they didn't have the right extensions to lower the spare.
- being that the shoulder was not very level, the car had tipped forward off the wrongly placed jack and the lower arm/rotor was resting in the dirt.
- no one was watching approaching traffic to make sure these crazy-ass West Texas drivers weren't about to plow them
fortunately the spare wasn't snug, it was just loose enough to lift and free from the hoist, and there was still enough room underneath to get the jack into the correct spot up front. had g'ma spot for traffic while we got it sorted out. their spare pressure was also really low so got that filled up and gave them my old Viair 70p that is useless on these larger ATs
nice people, hopefully they learned a few things