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| ![]() What about the safety aspects of RFTs? Please pardon my ignorance - is a RFT susceptible to tyre bursts? I ask this because most of us don't bother to fill air to the (spare) tires regularly (at least I don't, unless I'm off to a road trip) and when we do end up using it, its quite under-inflated and under inflated tyres heat up quicker and fail faster. A long shot, but very much possible. Alternatively, how hard would it be to carry a good tire repair kit and inflator? Spending 30K on a new spare is crazy, compared to a one time investment of ~2500 Rs. Again, pardon my ignorance - I don't know if RFTs can be fixed using our regular tubeless puncture kits. Another whacky alternative is to just replace all RFTs from the car with regular tubeless ones. Keep the RFTs as a backup (specially when you take the vehicle for service - to avoid any warranty hassles). The cost would be somewhere around the 30K figure and we also get to keep good tubeless tires of our choice for a far better ride (I hope am not too far from the actual cost of the new set)! |
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| ![]() Anyone have a full list of the cars with space savers, full size spares and no spares/run-flats? |
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| ![]() Ha maybe BMW noticed this thread. In todays paper there is an advert on the last page for the all new X1 and one of the new features is 'Spare Tyre' ! ![]() |
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| ![]() ![]() I was diffident about RFTs, when I acquired a bimmer but over time I am now quite comfortable with them. My responses are based on 6+ years and 100k+ kms of ownership. Quote:
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In the India context the alternative to AAA is the RSA which BMW has limited to cars upto the age of 5 years ![]() Yes and wait time is atleast 2-3 hours for the flatbed depending on location. I've used this facility twice in 6 years of ownership. It suits my temperament and may not apply to others. Now doing what it takes to get BMW to extend RSA to all its vehicles irrespective age. Wish me luck ;-) Last edited by RSUDARSANAN : 2nd June 2016 at 20:49. | |||||||||
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| ![]() May be carrying a puncture kit & tire inflator would be beneficial, but still if tire gets damaged it will be challenging. Not sure why can't they keep the placeholder and not provide the spare, then gauge the customer response and act accordingly. To me having spare tire is peace of mind. |
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![]() Yes, to each his own ![]() It is for that peace of mind, am trying to get BMW RSA for cars beyond 5 years of age where car is rendered immobile be it a flat due to tyre cut/blowout or otherwise ![]() Last edited by RSUDARSANAN : 3rd June 2016 at 11:23. | |
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| ![]() I had a query.... I have a 320D If one of the runflats deflate fully .. will I get to know in city running ? i.e. speeds of say 50 kmph? Will it show up on the idrive / or will I feel the wheel deflating like on a normal tubeless tyre? |
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| ![]() 320d has a tyre pressure monitoring system. The moment the air pressure starts going down, you will start getting a alert on the I drive. Just dont forget to reset the TPMS once you get air filled in the tyres. |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Thanks GTO for starting this thread, and pointing out every single thing about the space saver is wrong. For people who are not BMW owners, did you know that cars don't come with any tools at all. Zilch, ZERO! Nothing! Also do they expect us to dirty our boot since the space cover doesn't fit on a regular tire? Fun fact! Its cheaper for you to get a alloy wheel and tire plus all the other required things than buying their space saver kit. I'm also sure this spoils their 50:50 weight distribution. Quote:
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| ![]() Forget fully deflate, even if there is a loss of 3-4 psi in one of the tyres, iDrive will give you warning message - irrespective of your average speed. |
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| ![]() For peace of mind, the best thing is just to switch to tubeless and keep a spare even if means sacrificing precious boot space. For people who travel frequently and to remote places, this is crucial. I'm not even sure if any of us will be comfortable in leaving such expensive cars in the middle of no-where to go find BMW showrooms, there are many areas which are just not safe after dark! |
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![]() Now that it's been brought up, I must confess, in 100k+ kms of ownership: - I've never dirtied my hands, honest-to-goodness. - The flatbed came to my rescue on three different occasions ![]() Yes; at that stage if you check all four tyre pressures and one tyre pressure is way out of sync with its pair, then that tyre is most likely to have a puncture/valve leak. Last edited by RSUDARSANAN : 3rd June 2016 at 16:07. | |
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