I just ruined a friends wrx tires on a dirt uphill last week. The entire tire just came off the rim, split right down the radials so my belief is that a backup is always nice and necessary.
I just ruined a friends wrx tires on a dirt uphill last week. The entire tire just came off the rim, split right down the radials so my belief is that a backup is always nice and necessary.
"Horsepower sells motor cars, but torque wins motor races."
-Carrol Shelby
never got a flat in the 911 *knock on wood*
i threw out the space saver when i got it, then drove to sydney.. no problems lol.
one flat in the GT3.
i've had 1 in the honda and the mazda respectively but the tires stay on those cars forever, not replaced as often.
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I managed to get a nail in the back left tyre of my Volvo once.
I also managed to get a glass bottle stuck into the back left of my old BMW.
I'm good with tyres, you see.
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I had 4 on the one car in the same year - This one!..
I got a flat one night testing the car over around the block @ 10kph. Changed it to the spare tyre. The spare went dead in a few days. Got that off and had 4 tyres fitted for rwc.. Then 2 days after i had to go back as it got a flat again.
"Just a matter of time i suppose"
"The elevator is broke, So why don't you test it out"
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A couple of months ago I clipped a roadmarker with the sidewall of the front tyre. That was an immediate stop and there was a parking space. Change within 5 minutes. (long live the hydraulic suspension...)
Two more flats ages ago, (on a BX and the first Xantia) only noticeable because of the sound difference that the tyres made (again long live the self leveling suspension).
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Still have not got any recently..
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One in the Right Rear of the M3 about 2 weeks ago.
Tyres where just about shot on it anyway. R specs all round now...
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I have about 15-20 flats a year, both on work and private. I drive across all kinds of filthy dirty polluted dusty and whatever not industrial area's where there subsequently is also a mess on the roads!
Apart from that I allready had two times that all my tires were stabbed in 2008.
So 7-12 flats by crap on the roads and the rest by vandalism. I find it rather low considering the mess I drive through and the number of kilometers I make (annually 50-70k private and 150k+ for work).
Anyone ever tried changing a tire on a FIAT Ducato on a cold(0 degrees or so) lonely port road ? Took me a whole 3 hours to find out how to do so as the manual did not even resemble the way you should actually get the spare down from it's holder. Took the entire rear bumper off, removed the seats, the floor plating and some more stuff to find a tiny hole behind a cover behind the rear bumper where you had to put a 50cm rod in to get it down. Pfffff... Piece of rope and its in the back luggage now! Waaaay handier!
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My 645Ci had factory 19" rims and runflats, between those, my heavy foot and LA roads badly in need of repair something had to give. It ended up being the rim; I got a crack three inches long and a few centimeters wide. Bloody lot of good runflats did me.
I did keep using the runflats, but I switched to BBS RGRs which were much lighter and stronger and the car looked, handled and road significantly better. The lesson is if you're going to use runflats, make sure you've got good rims.
FYI: Now I drive an M6 without runflats but I've given up a significant amount of truck space for a full sized spare.
"The Metric System is the tool of the Devil! My car gets 40 Rods to the Hogshead and that's the ways I likes it!" -Grandpa Simpson
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