[PGabriel]

Hi. I would like some advice to know if it's worth to swap my 2012 328i original tires to non-runflats (17" wheels). I feel the runflats are kinda rough, since my town has lots of bad streets, full of potholes and many stone-paved roads.

Will it improve the ride quality?

Will I have problems in case of a flat tire, since there will be no spare tire?

Thanks.

[emtrey]

It will ride better but the new gen runflats are quite a bit better than the previous versions. If your car is leased it will need the runflats back on at turn back

[Michael Schott]

The first consideration is absolutely what you will do if you get a flat. You will need some sort of flat kit, a good road service or a spare tire which will take up most of your trunk.

[bmwdrvr13]

I was thinking of doing the same thing (take off the runflats and add regular tires). I've never really gotten a flat before on regular tires but stuff happens.

[tony20009]

I switched out my run flats for a time, but I've since gone back to them. For my driving -- typical daily driving stuff on public roads; long trips, around town trips, shopping, etc. -- I didn't find there to be enough of a difference to drive around with an extra tire in my trunk. The run flats are a tiny bit louder, but with the radio on -- even at a lowish volume -- I couldn't tell anyway.

I will offer that my winter tires aren't run flats and I do carry the extra tire. But that's mainly because I'm not going to sit there in the cold waiting for a tow truck. I just change the tires. (I also carry some hand warmers (REI has them) that I can stick in between the inner and outer lining of my gloves (leather exterior with wool inserts).) Also, a lot of places don't carry run flat tires so replacing one can be a real nuisance, and many places don't have the machine one must have to remove one from a rim.

You may want to think of the difference this way:

With regular tires, the PIA begins and ends at the spot where you get the flat and you then move on with your life. With run flats, the PIA doesn't start until you get to a place where you can stop or to a place beyond which your run flats will not take you. If that place where you stop is in rural Brazil (I don't know what podunk Brazil is like, but I'd imagine it can't really be any better than rural USA), you'll likely have to buy two tires: a regular one to temporarily replace the no-longer-usable run flat, and later, once you've returned to an urban area, a run flat so you have two matched tires in the rear.

Dealing with run flat issues is a pain in the ass, but then so is dealing with regular tires. Pick your pain.

[F555]

i would go with non-RFT.
RFT sucks...

[darmawaa]

Is it OK to use non RFT and prepare this: http://www.prestone.com/enca/node/382

[darmawaa]

Originally Posted by 515

i would go with non-RFT.
RFT sucks...

Are you from Jakarta?