That's modern run-flats for you. They are OK but the ride quality is terrible.That's a seriously low-profile tyre, Nero.
That's modern run-flats for you. They are OK but the ride quality is terrible.That's a seriously low-profile tyre, Nero.
It's rather hard to know now.Out of curiosity Yank - was the tyre fully inflated at the time of the bump ?
That wasn't a run flat. But the car ran remarkably smoothly at 70mph after the outer rim peeled off and followed me down the motorway. Might have been a different story if it was one of the front wheelsThat's modern run-flats for you. They are OK but the ride quality is terrible.
It's rather hard to know now.
I wish I could get sensible rubber for mine. 225/40 x 17 is bloody silly on a saloon car. Last night I had a mate round in his little van, he had a problem and we swapped the spare out. It was a 13 or 14 x something normal on a steel rim. "Isn't it light compared to an alloy wheel?" he commented. "Why do they fit heavier wheels to cars?"
"Vanity" I replied, which resulted in my neighbour, who was unloading shopping, laughing until he dropped his groceries.
It looked like something that should be coming down a narrow gauge railway doing 15mph with you hanging out of the cab smoking a pipe and pulling the steam whistle to alert cattle ahead.That wasn't a run flat. But the car ran remarkably smoothly at 70mph after the outer rim peeled off and followed me down the motorway. Might have been a different story if it was one of the front wheels
I know it's not a RF, it was a joke. Impressive that it carried on in a straight line after the thing had disintegrated though, I would have thought that you would have had to drive for miles to do that to a tyre.That wasn't a run flat. But the car ran remarkably smoothly at 70mph after the outer rim peeled off and followed me down the motorway. Might have been a different story if it was one of the front wheels
I was expecting an angle grinder doing 70mph on the Queen’s highway with a bill for resurfacing popping through your letterbox.Beats me, but I was very grateful for 4wd. There was not even any bodywork damage
The worst of it was that I was eaten alive by mossies while waiting for the towtruck
Out of curiosity Yank - was the tyre fully inflated at the time of the bump ?
Ouch, not good. When I bought my Mercedes CLK (used) it was sold with a brand new set of tyres (I’d asked for this or a discount because the rear tyres were close to the legal limit), great... or so I thought until one came off the rim and left me facing the wrong way on the exit of a roundabout on the way home from the dealership... they’d fitted the same size on the rear as the front, the rears were supposed significantly wider, what with it being a 5 litre V8 and all that. They’d stretched them onto the rims in the vein hope that the air would keep them on the rims... must’ve managed all of 5-6 miles. I don’t know how I didn’t notice when I collected it. Luckily no serious damage, just a badly scratched rim... Man did I have some words for them as I returned with it on an RAC truck an hour or so later... I got new rims and tyres out of them. Must’ve cost them a few quid, but I’d have made life difficult for them if they didn’t comply. Sadly that was just the start of a bad relationship with that car, it was a money pit with all sorts of electrical gremlins which cost a fortune to diagnose and fix, the worst of which made it stick in first gear exiting Charnock Richard services on the M6... I might’ve had some warning if I hadn’t been behind a truck on the exit ramp, but instead, I had to wait for a gap and boot it, and when I did, I went nowhere fast... scared the living shit out of me and I sold the car a short while later.I did that within the the first hour of buying a new car. Hit the curb coming off an unfamiliar roundabout and bent the front n/s wishbone. You have my sympathies; fingers crossed it's only a new tyre.
In the meantime, I know someone who can get that through the MOT for you for 20 Bensons.
Yep, I'm coming round to the view that anything lower than a 50% profile is unnecessary for any real world road car.
That explains why the Jag tyres are so cheap, they are the same size and it is clearly a standard these days. I still think it's a nonsense putting such big heavy tyres on a standard hatch. The whole point of a PNEUMATIC tyre is that it has a cushion of air. The less air you have the less cushioning you have, and using air to make up a rotating mass is effectively weightless. But no, we replace air with aluminium alloy and rubber. Because it looks cool. The engineers must be tearing their hair out.... our Golf has 225/40/18’s.
That explains why the Jag tyres are so cheap, they are the same size and it is clearly a standard these days. I still think it's a nonsense putting such big heavy tyres on a standard hatch. The whole point of a PNEUMATIC tyre is that it has a cushion of air. The less air you have the less cushioning you have, and using air to make up a rotating mass is effectively weightless. But no, we replace air with aluminium alloy and rubber. Because it looks cool. The engineers must be tearing their hair out.
I'm not so sure. And that's before you look at the performance of 225/40 section tyres in any snow at all. I used to be able to get a Fiesta through all sorts of crap in the 80s, I've seen the sump scraping on the snow in the middle of the road. These days a dusting thinner than the top of a Victoria Sponge will stop everybody this side of a 4x4.imo, current saloons and hatches on 18' wheels and 40 profile tyres ride better than many cars did on 60 profile tyres in the 80s.
My sympathies. Why does it always seem to happen within days of buying a new car, and never again? Until the next car.
At least you had some rubber left