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      01-30-2013, 12:15 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by Red Bread View Post
As for going to pick your wife up with a flat RFT, was she more than 50 miles from home? That is sort of the point of RFT's, for just the situation you described.
That's what I thought! ~20 miles when the TPMS warning came on.

From bimmerfest thread:
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Originally Posted by nospam
"What-if you have a flat?"

We personally don't travel far without the spare. Just around town to Target or Home Depot to pickup a large item for example.

We wouldn't change the tire ourselves anyway (I have back problems). That's why we have roadside assistance.

The one time we needed roadside assistance was for a RFT complete failure. Tire failed after just 10 miles at 50 MPH after TPMS warning. Had to be towed to the BMW dealership. Since there was low tread on the tire there was no warranty on the run-flat failing, After they quoted us an outrageous price for a replacement we decided to go to America's Tire for non-RFTs (spare from BavAuto) and never looked back. The RFTs can still put you at risk.
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When I was living in Laguna Beach, I had my M Coupe towed from Anaheim to the America's Tire in Orange and I'm 99% certain they just billed BMW for towing it to Crevier.
They probably have no leeway after hours. Crevier is our service dealership BTW (never bought a vehicle from them though).

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