That’s like saying should I wear a seatbelt as sometimes it’s better without wearing them.
Also a bit like I’m going tracking, should I take some parts off my car in case I wreck it so those parts won’t have to be replaced?
And if you hit a tire wall sliding sideways you’re probably going to need to be towed back. And if you don’t have it screwed in you probably won’t be able to that after the front end damage. Which means that the tow truck will probably damage your car elsewhere getting it back.
And there’s no place to really store it unless you put in the trunk but what if you damage the car in the rear and it can’t open. Or what if you are injured? No one will know where it is stored or certain where it goes. Plus do you really want to be that guy who delays everyone else because your cars is not ready to be towed back?
Two times I have had to be towed.
I ran out of gas once and then once fairly recently I clipped a weird curb and damaged my car had to be towed and they put my car on a flatbed pulling in by the installed tow hook. Can’t imagine how I would’ve got towed back without any damage if I did not have the hook in. They would have had to pull and drag it by the wheel spokes, not a good thing!
