caveman
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- East Sussex.
A thong here means something slightly different , perhaps @ Baldrick can find a suitable picture
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Your services are required.
Dad - the car is making a funny noise
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JD-Kid
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- Akaroa.. New Zealand
still a Goodyear tho and will give yer a great ride if yer get the right oneA thong here means something slightly different , perhaps @ Baldrick can find a suitable picture
Exfarmer
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Cowabunga
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- Ceredigion,Wales
Nearly all BMW cars and SUV's are fitted with run-flat tyres as standard. Those that aren't have it as an option.
beefandsleep
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- Staffordshire
Reset it when it’s done 100, that’ll learn er.
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
OMG, there’s more than one........now that’s scary
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- North West Wales
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- leics/warks border
Then it'll be even more my fault. Not that she'll work out that's what I've done, but that it'll be my fault that her system didn't work.
How does he lift it back in? Fake news
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- leics/warks border
It's a Merc, should have got Lewis Hamilton to do it. Because he's the best at everything.
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- NSW, Newstralya
yeah I know, & that ( initially, I don’t know the current situation ) was part of the problem.
They weren’t a common tyre - you couldn’t just rock up to any tyre service & grab one off the shelf . . . Even more inconvenient if you could only ( initially ) source then from a BMW dealer. They were ridiculously expensive as well
.A run flat is fine if you just have a “flat” tyre from a slow leak from say a nail & you are in a location where you can get it repaired or replaced with minimum inconvenience. Or if it’s something that is a rare, infrequent occurrence.
Less useful if you tear the sidewall out of your tyre, or the tread / carcass disintegrates due to stone damage combined with high speed running & heat . . .
the “run flats” may be more common, more readily available & cheaper now than only a few years ago ? I don’t know ? TBH - I’m not really that interested, it is not something that would suit me.
I’m actually quite glad if I get just a “flat”, as it means I haven’t destroyed a tyre.
Fixing a slow leak etc is “meh, no biggie”, but a lot of my personal tyre issues have been blowouts at high speed ( not stupid speeds, just the standard 100 km / hr , for the record ), for which a full size spare is the only practical solution
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- NSW, Newstralya
A thong here means something slightly different , perhaps @ Baldrick can find a suitable picture
the biggest question with thongs is are they a single plugger or double plugger ?
Double pluggers are definitely better
Probably only Australians will understand what I’m talking about
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- NSW, Newstralya
Probably relevant to a thread discussing tyres & roadside repairs.
How to fix a busted thong
How to fix a busted thong
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- East Sussex
"I busted a plug walking to the servo" kind of thing?the biggest question with thongs is are they a single plugger or double plugger ?
Double pluggers are definitely better
Probably only Australians will understand what I’m talking about
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- NSW, Newstralya
things are pretty crook when you lose a plug out of your thong walking to the servo
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- Scottish Highlands
As you write, you have no experience of them, so probably best not to comment on how effective they are.
They’re fine with sidewall damage. As I wrote up thread I’ve had a 1” hole in one and drove it home and then to the garage.
Price and availability is no issue either, albeit snow variants can take a few days to get, if you’re ordering mid summer.
You’re right they wouldn’t suit you, but they would suit most others/ every normal motorist. As you write, you have no experience of them, so probably best not to comment on how effective they are.
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- NSW, Newstralya
I admit they are probably good for soft côck urbanites, metro sexual hipsters, hairdressers or the physically feeble or invalid who live in metropolitan areas - but yeah, what ever suits I suppose
They do have a limit on speed & distance don’t they ?
from memory, there were places in the Highlands & other parts of the UK that were pretty remote as well. Be interesting to hear thoughts from our North American cousins also . . .
And no - they are not readily available or cheap & it seems that it is mainly euro cràp that run them
The truth about run flat tyres — Auto Expert by John Cadogan - save thousands on your next new car!
Often these are the only option when you’re buying a particular car - and generally they’re packaged up with no spare tyre at all. So: Good idea or bad idea?
autoexpert.com.au
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