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What a crap day! Tyre Fixing Disaster
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10-19-2012, 06:01 AM | #23 |
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I think that's right. If it has been driven when flat you can weaken the sidewalls and therefore their integrity cannot be guaranteed. If you had not run it flat then there would have been no damage to the sideall and the repaired tyre would have been OK.
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10-19-2012, 07:42 AM | #24 | |
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A RFT is put under so much pressure when it is run with no air in it. A vulcanised repair job may not have the same ability to put up with these same stresses and strains (and heat). |
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10-19-2012, 08:05 AM | #25 | |
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Are you serious? "Some people"....well these people might know more than so called tyre manufacturers/ kwik fit specialists and BMW!... Why they don't want to repair it? because they'd rather sell you a new pair of tyres!.... Lots of threads on it, Run flats CAN be repaired if they haven't been driven completely flat.... I've had the same RFT repaired twice!!!.... I drive with DSC fully off and in "sport" mode.... |
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10-19-2012, 04:47 PM | #27 |
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Surely, a repaired runflat is always going to be safer than a repaired non runflat, because if the repair fails the tyre will still be driveable. I have always thought its just a ploy by the tyre companies and fitters to sell you a new tyre because they think premium car owners are easy pickings.
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