How to spot run flat tyres?

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Jocky

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 Epsom, Surrey
I picked up a 3.0i Z4 a few days ago on an impulse, and after covering 350 miles in 4 days, I have to say that it was an awesome choice. Girlfriend loves it too. Was worried the ride would be too hard and noisy, but coming off the back of a Fiesta Zetec S which also had low profile tyres and hard suspension, I think this might actually be better!!

My only concern is that while the car has come with 1 month old tyres on the back and brand new tyres on the front, I've no idea whether they are RFTs or not (and obviously for insurance I need to know). They don't have the RSC marking, or RFT or anything like that, although they are marked as 'Reinforced'. Is this the same?

The tyres are:
Front: Autogrip F107 225 40 R18 92wxl
Rear: Nexen N1000 255 35 94y Extra Load

Also can anyone recommend someone that refurbs alloys around West Surrey area?
 
Hi and welcome,just googled the tyres and it looks like they are NON R/flats,regarding insurance some companys arent that bothered as long as they the same size as the r/flats.
Hope that helps :thumbsup:
 
Yeah, I googled around and they weren't marked as run flats anywhere, but they are reinforced and this page on Blackcircles made me wonder whether they were the same thing: http://www.blackcircles.com/general/technology
 
This link might give you a bit more info.

http://www.askthemechanic.co.uk/tyres/run-flat-tyres.html

I also doubt they would be runflats at £100 for rears and £46 for fronts.
 
I'm guessing that letting air out of the tyre and see whether they go flat would damage the tyre beyond safety?
 
Jocky said:
I'm guessing that letting air out of the tyre and see whether they go flat would damage the tyre beyond safety?
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Yes if they're not runflats, no if they are!

Bit like dunking witches...
 
Definitely not runflats.

Search on blackcircles.com for 255/35/18 and the Nexen N1000 comes up in the list but filter for runflats and it goes away.
 
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