Hit a pothole on the M25 the other day and destroyed a tyre!

[dario]

As the caption says,

I'm trying to clam of the highways Agency.

I was in My F11 and its fitted with 19's ! !

Wish me luck.

 

[Bing]

Good luck - I've noticed a lot opening up on the M20 and the A2 recently, not really on tbh, and very scary.

Glad you're ok and it didn't all go pear-shaped

 

[jonsalty]

Ouch, With a hole like that you're lucky you didn't have a high speed blow out..

..oh hang on you said M25, never mind.

 

[dario]

Ouch, With a hole like that you're lucky you didn't have a high speed blow out..

..oh hang on you said M25, never mind.

Thats the point… I did have a side wall blow out at 50mph with a car full of people. This is why i won't change from Run Flat Tyres!

 

[pvr]

You are doing well with tyres lately ...

 

[richarddaviesgb]

The weather over the last couple of years has really nailed our road network. My drive to work is annoying in traffic as there isn't much space to avoid the pot holes. Thus I leave uber early and treat them like chicanes. SO MUCH FUN! Even at 30mph it's great to toy around.

I do wonder though, why does this seem to affect our roads so badly? I know the water getting into air gaps and thus expanding in freezing etc etc
I mean, why do we seem to not be able to build roads to withstand this? I know we have a wide weather variation in the UK and therefore our roads require a wide operating window (you know what I mean).
It's not as if this weather is new though? Cars have improved so much over the last 50 years, so why not our roads?

 

[pvr]

UK roads are not to the same standard as the European ones. Here it seems that a layer of tarmac is pored straight onto sand and the bit of rain and frost will wash the support away and the road crumbles. Elsewhere, there is first a block pavers layer and the tarmac is put on top of that.

So even if the tarmac is damaged, the road underneath is still sounds.

Guess it comes down to money as the technology is there to build decent roads.

 

[dario]

You are doing well with tyres lately ...

Yes PVR. Increase the vehicle count and proportionally there will be more. Btw I've got 2 new tyres in the garage going on the 35i next week when the rears are refurbed. Bugger more tyres

 

[TitanTim]

Ouch, With a hole like that you're lucky you didn't have a high speed blow out..

..oh hang on you said M25, never mind.

Thats the point… I did have a side wall blow out at 50mph with a car full of people. This is why i won't change from Run Flat Tyres!

+1 the anti runflat doom mongers never think of this.

Glad it was nothing worse.

Tim.

 

[paulgs1000]

Thought runflats were to get you to a place where you can get the tyre repaired or replaced without recourse to a spare wheel - this to avoid weight and to free up space rather than being for safety?

Interesting aspect of runflats.]

 

[dario]

Thought runflats were to get you to a place where you can get the tyre repaired or replaced without recourse to a spare wheel - this to avoid weight and to free up space rather than being for safety?

Interesting aspect of runflats.]

I think you're right about the space saving of not carrying a spare tyre, but as rapid tyre deflation that i received was no more than a costly nuisance rather than a possible disaster. Added to this i was able to drive home and not have to stop on the side of the motorway. In that section there was no hard shoulder so it was an added bonus.

I love the ride of a normal tyre, but as this showed and for the fact that my wife drives both cars fitted with RFT its safety first for me.

See RFT video [youtube]FumXPC8MQAI[/youtube]

 

[TitanTim]

The main advantage I can see in the event of a rapid deflation is a runflat is more likely to stay on the rim as opposed to a normal tyre.

Tim.

 

[pvr]

New run flats are not as bad as the original 2003 lot we had on the Z4 when they first came out.

My X5 has run flats and I would never know, so no need to change either.