Flat tire and the stock jack sucks!!!!

Dlm6568

So my night begins, on my way to my son's basketball game, first round of the playoffs and he's the starting point guard. It's like 30 mins away so we leave a little early so I can get gas and coffee. All good so far, I leave the station as I'm driving not even 100 feet from the station, I here a thumping sound coming from the rear. Oh he'll what did I hit, I pull into a parking lot to check things out, front good rear not so much, a huge bolt stuck in the tire, about 5 inches long.

Damn gotta change the tire, it's raining cold and in a dark parking lot. Get the jack, spare and tools out. Jack the car up all good, till my son went to pull the tire off, don't know what he did but next thing the jack slips and the rear end is lying on the ground! I was like holy s! This has never happened to me in 30+ years of driving. Long and short my son ran to the store next door and we got a another jack, changed the tire. We got to the game with 2 mins left in the half, he played they won now off to the semi's on Sunday.

All things considering we did ok, someone could have gotten hurt pretty bad if thins were different.

What did I learn,
Replace the stock jack ASAP. That thing is a piece of s***!
The spare is pretty good, 65 in the rain and it felt solid.
The rear of the Z is bullet proof, was really worried that the drop caused some damage but she was solid all the way to the game and home again.

So now I gotta find a place to plug the tire, it only has 2000 miles on it, hopefully they can do it.

Sorry for the long rant, but what a night. Stay safe all!

So I drove by the same lot this morning and noticed there was a slight incline in the lot. My car was positioned so the front end was slightly raised. So I think that was the culprit. Being dark and rainy probably didnt help me to see the incline and wanting to get my son to is game, it was a perfect storm.
Again thank God no one was hurt!