Changing A Tire Kilted

**Riverkilt** · 28th February 09, 04:33 PM

Anyone else change a tire while kilted?

Think I may have posted about this a couple years ago (sorry for the duplication to the older hands).

Was driving a remote dirt road on the Navajo Nation when what turned out to be a nail deflated my tire. The dirt road was so rough I didn't notice until rubber was flying forward past the driver's window from the left rear tire.

I was wearing my Leatherneck hand sewn wool kilt. It was very rainy and very windy outside. The wind blew the sand like a sandstorm in the rain.

So I'm 25 miles from asphalt. Had never changed a tire on this vehicle. Did a lot of pondering and figuring things out. Changed the tire in the rain and sandstorm...all the time worried about the kilt but thinking this is how the old Scotsmen used them.

Got the tire changed, limped back home on the clown tire. When I got the kilt off at home it was none the worse for wear. The sand brushed out.

At least in such a remote location I didn't have to worry about how I positioned myself and my kilt to get the lug nuts off and back on.

Anyway, main point of this post is to ask if anyone else has had occasion to change a tire while kilted and what challenges that presented.

If we're gonna drive kilted we gotta be ready to change a tire kilted.

Ron

**Bugbear** · 28th February 09, 05:04 PM

Well Ron, I've never changed a tire while wearing the kilt. I, of course, don't drive nor own a car. However, I have done work that is a little bit like that while wearing my pleated, canvas man skirt.

I suggest putting a large piece of foam rubber padding in with your tire iron and spare, and putting that down so you can be on your knees rather than squatting. Probably a good idea whether in kilt or trousers.

* And now that I think about it, I have had to pull and lift boxes of drinking water from the bottom part of the basket etc when grocery shopping while wearing the kilt. It's a little bit of the same movement I guess.., and doable if one lifts with the legs rather than the back. *

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 28th February 09, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Anyone else change a tire while kilted?

The three most important tools every motorist should have:

1) a roll of duct tape.
2) a swiss army knife.
3) A CELL PHONE

**Carolina Kiltman** · 28th February 09, 05:20 PM

Yep! coming back from the HG at Waxhaw (about a 3 hr drive) cold (39 F) raining, windy. This was a paved highway, but I pulled off the road to change the tire. (I don't like the idea of getting my tank all bloody either.)

Had no trouble, as several years back I twisted off the puny little lugwrench supplied with the vehicle. I was saved by a scruffy looking angel in a really ugly truck. He had an impact wrench which worked off the 12v system in the truck. I bought one as soon as I could. Never had a flat until about 5 years later, as mentioned above. I always carry an old pack blanket with me anyway, so it was no problem with my knees.

I highly recommend getting one of those impact wrenches, they can save a lot of effort and words which are not for tender ears!

**bchunter** · 28th February 09, 05:34 PM

I don't even want to know what it's like to change a tire while kilted.

**Nick the DSM** · 28th February 09, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

The three most important tools every motorist should have:

1) a roll of duct tape.
2) a swiss army knife.
3) A CELL PHONE
4) a kilt

fixed it for ya!

**Charlie** · 1st March 09, 06:54 AM

I have not had to change a tyre whilst kilted. However a few weeks ago I had to fit snow chains whilst kilted. Not a difficult taks but it was freezing
-7C! Took a while to warm up again but had no choice or would never have made it home. Ironically I often wear tights as an extra layer but didnt that time. We live and learn!

**Frank McGrath** · 1st March 09, 09:11 AM

Two years ago I was up in New Jersey with my wife's family for thanksgiving. Just after her elderly uncle left the house, we got a phone call. He had a flat and could not change it himself. So four of us piled into a car and went to rescue Uncle Eddie. On the scene we found a bent wheel and a flat tire. I was in my NEW kilt that I had just picked up from Rocky. The other guys, a Mercedes dealer owner, an ATT tech, and a car dealer employee al looked like tey did not want to touch anything. I removed the "jack" from the trunk and asked one of the guys to pull the spare from the holein the trunk. Wheile I was jacking the car, they just watched. I loosened the lugs on the flat, and then raised the car High enough. Luckily, Eddie had a blanket in the trunk and I put down as a kneeler. Bolted on the spare and threw the flat in the trunk. Took the car off of the jack, and told eddie not to drive over 50 mph on the trip home. We returned to the party and sent Eddie on his way. We were back at the house when Eddie called back. Iwent for my coat, fearing the worst. He called the other three guys sissies for not helping the only guy in a skirt change his tire. I got a nice thank You from Eddie a couple of days later. The Power of the Kilt. It's a good thing.

**Abax** · 1st March 09, 09:25 AM

I've worn my workman's Utilikilt in the garage changing tires. Here's a tip - it's easy to end up standing on the back edge of your kilt with your heels if you've been squatting. So take care when you stand up . . .

Abax

**Riverkilt** · 1st March 09, 09:33 AM

Crack me up Abax....!!! Thanks for that warning...

Kind of like watching out for the Utilikilt modesty snap when you sit in one of them cheap molded outdoor chairs they sell in big box stores...that snap can become solidly wedged in the chair's drain slot...when you stand up you bring the chair with you.

Ron