Tyre safety - Run Flat Tyres

Last week I went out to a customers home in Shrewsbury, where she needed one new tyre for her car, a BMW.

When I arrived and saw the tyre, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. When I actually took the tyre off, I saw just how bad the damage was!

The customer thought because it was a RFT (Run Flat Tyre) it was okay to drive on for a couple of weeks... it's not!

Leaving the tyre for that long is extremely dangerous, not only to the person driving the vehicle but also to other drivers.

With Run Flat Tyres they are designed to keep you going, as in, to get you back home or somewhere you can pull over and stop in a safe place, not for 2 weeks!

They can also help you maintain control of your car, if suddenly your tyre has a blow out and suddenly deflates.

A RFT can't run for long, once it has been punctured, you are then limited to a reduced speed and set distance, which then your tyre is deemed unsafe!

So for the customer to be driving on it for 2 weeks, she was lucky that she didn't have an accident or cause one!