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Chaps just as a side note, there is a great video on the "Fifth Gear" website reference the pothole problems around the UK roads. It has a good deal of info on what we should do if we are in the same situation as Andy. It will tell you what we should do in respect of photos and information needed from us to pass onto the relevant council. As previously mentioned we pay some much road tax and fuel duty you have to ask where the money goes? ( MP expeditures, bank bailouts, paying for the American lead war etc) it makes you sick. Not to mention the cost of RFT. Anyhow its worth a watch when you get a spare 5 mins. Keep us posted Andy on the claim outcome. cheers Imran. |
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Any news on the claim yet Andrew? Mike |
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Nah, probably standard practice I'm afraid. They must be bricking it atm with so many potholes in the roads, which I fear doesn't bode well for your claim.
Best of luck tho - nill illigitimo carborundum... |
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I had written to the council telling them what happend, including photos of the damage to the wheel, pictures of the rapidly filled in pothole, copies of quotes for the tyre and rim and a copy of my £515 bill. Two days ago I received a letter from a firm of Solicitors acting on the councils behalf, explaining that the council have passed them my claim and that they would contact me shortly. I was a bit suprised to hear that, if it was a flat rejection surely the council would have told me to go and jump? |
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I would charge the council for all the inconvenience as well. Why do we as a nation put up with this Sh!t . We pay Road Tax and a substantial amount of fuel duty and yet none of it seems to be put to road repairs .
Sorry to rant and take over your thread Best of luck with the council claim Rob |
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Update Car went in to local garage (non BMW who also supplied the tyre and rim) for a full four wheel alignement and a suspension check. Garage gave it a clean bill of health and only had to do minor adjustments to the tracking at the front. When driving it on Tue it did have a pull to the left and a vibration which wasn't there prior to the incident plus the runflat tyre warning came on while doing 70 (ish) mph on the M8. She now tracks straight and true and I have had my faith restored in driving it as I was slightly un nerved driving it until I had it checked. The suspension must be strong indeed, she's a tuff beast. Andrew Edited by Andrew Rolland |
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Local (nice) BMW dealer quoted me £155 + VAT for the retro fit kit which comes with the jack etc. Its a £75 option on a new E60! |
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I enquired about a spacesaver for a colleague swapping from RFT's on his e70. For it, they seem to come as either a rim only, no tyre, or as part of a retro-fit kit that includes whel, tyre, jack, etc. I rang a dealer in NI too as I found a big price difference recently on a mfsw retro-fit kit for the e46. Even up there the spacesaver kit was somewhere around the £250-300 mark, with vat, etc. iirc. Rim only wasn't a great deal less. |
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Aye that's the polite way of describing the damage. Going to get the suspension checked at local garage next week. I'm going to order an emergency spare from BMW in the new year so as you say to keep the car on the road if that happens again. It's a special order from Germany so best to wait till after the holidays. It wasn't the runflats that let me down but the actual rim failing, hence why I was off the road. |
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Hadn't kept up with this thread so just saw the photo's of the damage now. That is fairly well goosed! A new wheel was the right solution. Might be worth checking with a refurber though as to whether the wheel can be restored. If its not cracked then maybe it can be. A spare in your shed might be a useful thing at some point in the future, if only to save the downtime associated with the lead-time on wheel and tyre if you encounter such an occassion again. |
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Wahey Car now has a shiny new rim and a new tyre. Fitted it last night after spending 2 hours tyring to get home by chuffin' bus. Glad I didn't go for the train from Central seeing has how they were all off! Took the car out this morning in the snow for the first time in a week. No issues what so ever. If you want to make progress in the snow don't take public transport but take a rear wheel drive BMW! |
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Oh feck Oh feck So do you reckon I can buff that out with the Megs G220 and some aggressive polish then? I reckon its deformed by 20 mm or so. If the rim has deformed that much I hate to think of the forces that went thru the tyre sidewall. Hence why I am not taking any chances and getting a new rim and tyre. To be fair the runflat did its job and allowed me to get home and indeed let me drive it a short distance again without any dramas. If I had an ordinary tyre I would be picking bits of it out of the pothole and it would most probably have come off the rim and I would have then destroyed the rim driving the 2 miles or so home. |
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Taken tyre off car. Oh feck When I get round to posting the pics you will see why I have decided to get a new rim and tyre. Tyre still has 5mm of tread on it too which is a big bummer! |
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The bang was my description of the noise that came from the car on impact with the pot hole. Tyre has not blown or anything but leaking from somewhere. Will remove it tonight and have a swatch at it. Spoke to a neighbour this morning at the bus stop who remarked as to why I was slumming it on the bus. Told her the story and she said that I would have a fight with the council as to wether or not their road surface was at fault or not that caused the tyre to go flat. Off to phone local garage for a price for a tyre. |
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I thought they were not supposed to go bang.
Could it be a faulty tyre? |
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Driving home tonight, just toodling at 50 mph, 5 mins from home. Concious that the car behind had come from nowhere, on coming car, I'll just move over a bit to give him a bit of room and then an almighty bang. Oh feck Senses back together, round the next bend, car feels to be vibrating, can't tell from where, indicate to let the boy behind pass me, and bump flat tyre indicator comes on. Oh feck Vibration bit worse. Limp it home at 40 mph and park in the drive way. Front nearside looks o.k., press side wall, firm. Oh feck it must be a rear tyre which were new only 9 months ago. Rear nearside looks o.k., press side wall, firm. Pressure gauge out, N/S/R tyre pressure spot on. N/S/F tyre about 8 psi. Couldn't see any damage, pumped tyre up, initialised the rft monitor for reset, took for drive up to 60 mph, fine, rft monitor now says set. Hmmm Car then vibrates again, no flat tyre indicator, back home, check pressure on N/S/F tyre - 8 psi. Oh feck Phoned local council to report pothole and that I have damaged tyre and mibbie the rim. "No problem sir I'll send a claim form out to you". Good stuff, restored my faith in the local cooooncil . Could be a big claim, one tyre will be getting on for £200 and the rim would be atleast that. Can't really drive the car as the tyre will just go flat again. And this is the real clincher, as it has run flat tyres, I have no chuffin' spare to put on! I don't really want to drive it knowing that I have a wheel/tyre fault. What a wonderful invention Run Flat Tyres are! Mibbie I'll ask Santa for one of these, having possibly had to buy one of these first There is one silver lining I suppose, is that the front tyres were getting thin with ~3mm tread depth left. But should get a few more thousand out of them yet. Learned that I can't tell from pressing the sidewall on a 40 profile RFT that it is flat! D'oh! Andrew Edited by Andrew Rolland |
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