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Dad - the car is making a funny noise
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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 7261674" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>yeah I know, & that ( initially, I don’t know the current situation ) was part of the problem.</p><p>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 <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😮" title="Face with open mouth :open_mouth:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f62e.png" data-shortname=":open_mouth:" />.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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 . . .</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>I’m actually quite glad if I get just a “flat”, as it means I haven’t destroyed a tyre.</p><p>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</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 7261674, member: 71668"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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