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The AA (or whichever one you are with) will take an hour to get there, 5 minutes to do the job, and another 10 to sign all the paperwork at the end of it. If you do it yourself, you will be on your way inside quarter of an hour. Of course that does assume you actually have a spare - which a lot of modern cars don't. They should be compulsory.
A wheel change takes minutes. Once the vehicle is back on the road, its occupants are in less danger. Equally importantly, other road users are no longer put at any risk by a short term obstruction.
I still can't quite get my head around two young lads, one with an almost brand new Golf GTI, and his mate with an almost brand new Civic Type R, being so clueless when it came to one the most basic things you might need to do to your car.
Maybe the difference is when I was their age I was driving pretty old cars that needed fairly regular maintenance, so you either had to learn or pay up.
Having a flat and no spare wheel can mean more time spent on the motorway waiting for the AA to get a suitable vehicle to tow you away. 15 min vs several hours.
Let's be honest about this, the problem isn't that young people have no clue how to change a wheel - more that the parents of said youth are of the opinion that doing such manual labour is "someone else's job" and won't teach them any skills that could be useful in life.
The foam stuff not only makes it more expensive to have the tyre changed, it won’t fix a damaged rim, which given the state of the roads is becoming increasingly likely.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself