"Rapid" brand budget tyres - anyone use them?

vikingaero

AdrianC wrote: »

Bear in mind that, if your vehicle was supplied new with runflats, it's unlikely to have any other provision for a puncture. If you then have a puncture, most of the breakdown services will not cover you, since their terms & conditions almost universally state that the manufacturer's provision - or an alternative - needs to be present.

You can still use the sealant/gunk on a non-runflat. If it won't fix it then it won't have fixed a puncture in a runflat so you would still require the use of a breakdown service.

Runflats are a little bit of a misnomer. You could drive home on a screw/nail puncture but anything more and you're waiting for a breakdown truck.

AdrianC

vikingaero wrote: »

You can still use the sealant/gunk on a non-runflat.

Yep, you can.

If it's there.

neilmcl

TBH, runflats have moved on leaps and bounds in the last few years and are not as bad as they used to be. The Bridgestones on mine have been excellent and you wouldn't know that they were RFTs.

Joe_Horner

vikingaero wrote: »

Runflats are a little bit of a misnomer. You could drive home on a screw/nail puncture but anything more and you're waiting for a breakdown truck.

I was doing that for a couple of days last week on a non run-flat. Picked up a screw from somewhere and the spare isn't in the car because it got in the way of fitting the towbar.

Chinese Landsail with about 4mm of tread and a screw in it, and I didn't die or kill any kittens (did have a near miss with a sparrow though - is it me or are birds more suicidal than they used to be?).

£10 puncture repair 2 days later and it's happy as Larry again

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

And if you take that sealant/pump out, the breakdown services won't help, because you'll have got rid of the manufacturer's provision, without providing any alternative...

Why would you take it out?

By the same logic the breakdown service would refuse to help if you had no spare or the spare was flat.

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

Yep, you can.

If it's there.

Why wouldn't it be there?

Do the sealant pixies run about at night stealing it?

AdrianC

bigjl wrote: »

Why would you take it out?

Because it was never in there, because there were runflats fitted originally...

By the same logic the breakdown service would refuse to help if you had no spare or the spare was flat.

Yep, they would.

bigjl

AdrianC wrote: »

Because it was never in there, because there were runflats fitted originally...



Yep, they would.

My 116D had run flats from new and also had a puncture repair kit in the boot.

Do breakdown services refuse to come out if you have damaged a run flat on a kerb?

tygar2

bigjl wrote: »

Why would you take it out?

By the same logic the breakdown service would refuse to help if you had no spare or the spare was flat.

My thoughts exactly....100% agree.

No reason to ever take it out of the car in the same way you would not remove a spare wheel.

In fact I think there is a much higher more chance of forgetting to check the presence or tyre pressure on a spare than you noticing your tyre weld (or other product) is missing.

The argument is a bit weak I think.