I have been driving on the original run flats since July. They are stiff, but you can predict when they are gonna start rolling under in a tight turn. Well, that is as long as the regular Texas weather is regular hot.
Cold snap hit this week about the time we headed out to visit family members. Temps hit the 40's and it felt like driving on bias ply tires. They follow every grove on the road and every little bump is a course correction. Makes the MINI feel a little "twitchy". It aint exactly horrible, but it does make the MINI handle different.
I have rotated them. Tread looks real good, still, and balance isn't an issue. I have been happy with them up til now. Just seems like they dont like the cold.
I guess I get to look forward to this until Texas gets back to regular warm? Mid Feb or so.

 

Did you get the performance or the All Season?

 

What's your inflation? I know when it gets cold the air contracts and if feels like they're flatter but what are you running?

 

All seasons at 32 psi. Checked the night before we left.
Dunno? Just felt stiffer.

 

My all season RFs are recommended to be at 36 PSI. What tires do you have?

 

This 40 degree weather sux Don't know how people with real winter do it.

I am thinking of selling the new runflats that come on my car in a week. Would like to get a set of bridgestones non run flat.

 

Shasbot! Have to look this evening. I think got stupid and defaulted to 32. Old habit.
I'll double check later.

 

I had a bit of the same thing but once I drove for alittle bit and they warmed up the symptoms went away.

 

Mostly off-topic:
We had a fresh-out-of-his-doctoral-work candidate professor in my mechanical engineering department who got hired on in a pre-tenure position. I had the "pleasure" of teaching his laboratory section for his grad-level controls course (having had the mispleasure of being the only grad student remaining on campus who had taken the course the last time it was offered three years previous), and as such got to know him a bit better than most. He had a story he was proud of telling that involved him, during his PhD studies, attending a party and finding out that the girl he was chatting with was studying thermodynamics.

"Oh, then you're 'warm and wet.' I'm 'cold and hard'" Upon her distressed look at his obviously horrible and only-certainly failed pick-up attempt, he had to explain to her that he was a doctoral candidate studying structural dynamics.

I can't hear the words "cold and hard" without thinking about that particular individual and wondering if he ever found a university to give him tenure. (He most certainly didn't cut it at my alma mater.)

Marginally on-topic:
My stock all-season 17" run-flats are scheduled to arrive with my MINI come mid-December. I'm eager to see how they function in the Colorado winter, although my intention is to run separate winter/summer tires (my heart's not tied to run-flats) once the effects of global warming show up a bit more.

~Neal

 

Shasbot indeed. I was wrong too. My AS RFs are recommended to use 38PSI not 36. Doh.

 

Hmm. 33 to 38 psi. I think I am going back to 36 and give them a run.

 

My new MINI came with Continental runflats... after reading all of the posts on here about the stiff ride I was going to experience, I was pleasantly surprised as to how good the car rides and handles!

With the onset of winter here (I've seen a low of 10 degrees so far), I haven't really noticed a substantial difference in ride or handling.

 

Agreed. The Continentals are a pleasant surprise.

 

That's good news because I have the Conti's and hoped they would be good.