| If ever there was proof the law is an ass, this is it. If you have a spare tyre and the tread is below the legal limit, 1.6mm average across the width of the tyre, you will fail an MOT providing of course your car needs one. The answer is to remove the spare if your tyre is baldy. Having said that, the polis will give you grief if they stop you with 2mm or less on any part of the tyre.
As for MINI not providing a spare, this is supposed to be a prestige make yet they are too tight fisted to fit a crappy space saver tyre never mind a proper spare. I specc'd for the space saver my car but had to buy a new air pump as the old one couldn't blow the spacesaver to the recommended pressure. The can is a joke. If I get a puncture on a Monday, it would be Friday afternoon before I could get to a tyre repair place. 50 miles is simply not workable, fine if you are in the city but elsewhere, not worth bothering about.
morrisminiminor | 
