First time I ever bought new tires I went back for the free rotations. Then needed to take one off for something and it too two of us standing on a pipe on the lug wrench handle to get the nuts loose. I bought a torque wrench and from then on I just rotate tires myself.
I was in a parking lot jumping up and down on my lug wrench to change a flat not all that long ago. It occurred to me after the second time I fell that my wife probably would not be physically able to change a tire in a similar circumstance.
Later, I cut a couple lengths of galvanized pipe and stashed them with the spare in her car and mine. Hopefully more than doubling the lever arm of the lug wrench will allow her to break the lugnuts loose without hurting herself.
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