HKShooter65
TGT Addict
I just got back from a 2,600 mile road trip hiking in Colorado.
Good to be back in the Republic.
I was in my truck with a real spare, a real jack and a lug nut wrench.
Thanks-God an uneventful and safe sojourn form my work.
The point of this post:
In July I made approximately the same trip in my wife's SUV, a BMW X5.
The BMW has run flat tires. No jack. No spare.
In short.....get a flat in the BMW run-flat tire and you can drive 50 miles at 50 MPH, that's it. Finished.
The tire is NOT repairable and a simple flat, per BMW, mandates a new tire.
To complicate things, the run-flats, I'm told, cannot be mounted by the equipment in most small gas stations or garages. They need new, expensive, gear to mount/dismount.
My greatest anxiety was on the July trip, in Moffat, Colorado, midway between Santa Fe NM and Dillon Colorado and I ran over some piece of metal, angle iron, or something.
This was at 9PM Saturday night at 75 MPH.
Had I ruined a tire I'd have been stuck for a couple or three days in the middle of nowhere (no offense to those who call Moffat, CO home).
My point...the benefit to weight and space afforded by the run-flat tires in the new high tech vehicles (like my lovely bride drives) seems a frightening compromise to real road-trip trekkers!
any experience here?
Good to be back in the Republic.
I was in my truck with a real spare, a real jack and a lug nut wrench.
Thanks-God an uneventful and safe sojourn form my work.
The point of this post:
In July I made approximately the same trip in my wife's SUV, a BMW X5.
The BMW has run flat tires. No jack. No spare.
In short.....get a flat in the BMW run-flat tire and you can drive 50 miles at 50 MPH, that's it. Finished.
The tire is NOT repairable and a simple flat, per BMW, mandates a new tire.
To complicate things, the run-flats, I'm told, cannot be mounted by the equipment in most small gas stations or garages. They need new, expensive, gear to mount/dismount.
My greatest anxiety was on the July trip, in Moffat, Colorado, midway between Santa Fe NM and Dillon Colorado and I ran over some piece of metal, angle iron, or something.
This was at 9PM Saturday night at 75 MPH.
Had I ruined a tire I'd have been stuck for a couple or three days in the middle of nowhere (no offense to those who call Moffat, CO home).
My point...the benefit to weight and space afforded by the run-flat tires in the new high tech vehicles (like my lovely bride drives) seems a frightening compromise to real road-trip trekkers!
any experience here?
Last edited: