Good morning guys,
I recently found some photos I took in 2006, showing the RF tire that exploded while driving on an unlimited section of the autobahn between Dresden and Cologne.
Since there were only a few cars on the autobahn I was able to go almost v/max, and then it happened. A loud bang, followed by a extremly shaky steering wheel. It felt like driving over a cornfield.
I was gently braking while steering to the emergency lane, where I got off the car to look whats happened. I saw the damaged wheel, and decided to drive slowly to the next parking area which was only a few 100 metres away. That would have not been possible with normal tires, but I had runflat tires on that car.
Maybe the runflat tires saved our lives/car, I don't want to know what happened if a "normal" tire blows at that speed.
On the parking area I looked what was damaged: the wheelhouse completely blown away and the fromt bumper slightly shifted.
As I had no spare tyre (I thought with runflats I can always reach the next garage, but here it was impossible to go on) I called the BMW Service which delivered a spare tyre.
Then we continued the trip and reached Cologne almost in time.
Pic 1: Getting off and looking whats damaged. The runflat prevents the rim from touching the ground, there is always that little tire-ring remaining.
Pic 2: Wheel en detail, wheelhouse missing
Pic 3: changing wheel
Pic 4: closeup
CU
CMDR
I recently found some photos I took in 2006, showing the RF tire that exploded while driving on an unlimited section of the autobahn between Dresden and Cologne.
Since there were only a few cars on the autobahn I was able to go almost v/max, and then it happened. A loud bang, followed by a extremly shaky steering wheel. It felt like driving over a cornfield.
I was gently braking while steering to the emergency lane, where I got off the car to look whats happened. I saw the damaged wheel, and decided to drive slowly to the next parking area which was only a few 100 metres away. That would have not been possible with normal tires, but I had runflat tires on that car.
Maybe the runflat tires saved our lives/car, I don't want to know what happened if a "normal" tire blows at that speed.
On the parking area I looked what was damaged: the wheelhouse completely blown away and the fromt bumper slightly shifted.
As I had no spare tyre (I thought with runflats I can always reach the next garage, but here it was impossible to go on) I called the BMW Service which delivered a spare tyre.
Then we continued the trip and reached Cologne almost in time.
Pic 1: Getting off and looking whats damaged. The runflat prevents the rim from touching the ground, there is always that little tire-ring remaining.
Pic 2: Wheel en detail, wheelhouse missing
Pic 3: changing wheel
Pic 4: closeup
CU
CMDR
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