| Research Backs Run-Flat Tyres
A study by the BMW Emergency Service highlights the safety benefits
Comparing tyre-related roadside calls throughout 2003 and 2004 from BMW owners with models available with run-flat tyres to those calls from owners whose BMWs were not available with run-flat technology, revealed that 12,327 drivers would have been able to continue their journeys rather than brave the roadside wait for an emergency vehicle (over 100 drivers per week).
Over one million tyre-related incidents are covered by the UK's major breakdown services each year on UK roads. Add to that the unrecorded numbers of frustrated drivers who have had a puncture and changed the wheel themselves (believed to be considerably higher than the one million figure) and,according to BMW, it becomes clear that run-flat tyre technology is a serious aid to roadside safety and driver convenience.
Conservative advice indicates that a driver can continue for 150 miles at 50mph with a punctured run-flat tyre. During tyre testing, expert drivers regularly continue driving on a deflated run-flat tyre for over 600 miles before the tyre eventually fails.
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