I have a stock sized spare for my truck but my regular tires are 33's. Assuming i get a flat and need to drive it to a tire shop what is the best way to do this.

 

Put the spare on the front and don't use 4x4 (if you have it) until you get the original tire fixed/replaced.

 

buy a used tire

 

X2. No matter what tire goes flat, you need the spare on the front. You do not want two tires of different diameters on the rear axle.

 

This just happened to me this last week. I've got 35's w/ a stock size spare. Thankfully it was the front one that went flat and I didn't have to rotate any of them first.

I took the flat 35 off of the front driver side and replaced it with the spare. I had about a 10 mile drive to get to a tire shop in the small town I was in. I of course left it in 2wd, but the E-brake light and ABS light stayed on for the duration of the drive. I'm sure having the much smaller size spare on there was confusing the sensors big time.

Everything went fine and after the tire was fixed and put on, the lights immediately turned off and it was no big deal.

Again just make sure that if you ever have to put a different size tire on the truck, make sure it goes on the FRONT.