We headed to the car about 6 AM to go to the cities of Dunkwa and Kyekyewere. The tire that I had inflated yesterday was now flat! When I bought the car I checked the spare and tools for a case just like this. There were no tools or jack and the spare was 4-bolt and the Carina E is 5-bolt. They gave me a jack and tools, which I now used to raise the passenger rear tire, but discovered that the new spare they gave me was also 4-bolt! I threw both wheels into the ‘boot’ of a taxi and went to the closest vulcanizer. (tire repair)
The tire had very little tread left on it and a bolt through the face, so we peeled the rubber from the wrong spare rim and put it on the Carina rim and since he had no rim for the Carina, we left without a spare. It was no different than before when I had no spare but thought that I did.
Wouldn’t you know that when we returned to Kumasi, maybe about 3 Km. out, we picked up a nasty screw-nail in the face of the passenger front tire. When we discovered the sound we stopped and discovered the nail, and so headed directly for the vulcanizer, but the centrifugal force of the tire rotating threw out the nail and the tire went immediately flat on the main street. I knew the tire had no tread left and was ruined anyway so I drove 100 meters or so to a safe place to remove it. My wheel cover had come off and a taxi stopped behind me and having seen where it went, retrieved it for me. Being at hand he took me to the vulcanizer and I purchased a good used tire. He will exchange the 4-bolt rim for a Carina rim on Monday, and I will purchase a spare tire to go on it.
So, all things work together for good to those who love Christ… but we don’t always see how and why at the time you get 2 flats in 1 day. Rolling on new rubber, we went to find the Baptist Church we planned to attend tomorrow, and determine the start time for the English service. We pulled in to where Marlayne had seen their bus and the bus was not at the church, but 3 little boys jumped in the back to direct us to the church. They said left instead of right so we made an extra lap around the roundabout. It was easy to find and we took them home after we found out the start time.
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