my runflats are starting to show some wear.any suggestions for replacements would be appreciated

 

See my sig - and the ump-teen threads on the subject.......

 

Most go regular tires.

 

w/o runflats what would you do when u have a flat?

 

Punt.

 

You could use Tyre Guardian unless you like fixing flats . It works on the opposite principle of green goop like Slime. You add the liquid to your tires before you have a flat. Matter in fact, it's suppose to last the life of the tire. Here's their website for more info: http://www.tireguardian.com/

 

interesting product of tyre guardian.. any real life account yet?

 

I don't have personal experience with Tyre Guardian, but a local tuner shop that sells it tells me it does work --permanently. It's not a temporary fix like Slimy mess.

 

For those of you who might not know, offroad bicycles (aka mountainbikes) have had tubeless tires available now for 8-9 years. For almost that long, a guy/company known as Stan's NoTubes came up with the idea of a similar sealant put in the tires to fix small punctures. I've been using it for years and it works well MOST of the time. The caveats are it dries up over time, especially in hot climates, so you have to refresh it every few months....and it won't fix a major rip in the tire (a blowout sized hole on a car tire would be similar.) I would say this product would help, but not be a universal panacea, and I think it's awfully high priced.

 

Since you can only drive <50 mi on a flat RF, if you're out in bfe then you'd want to have the following handy.

1) Slime Safety Spair (I picked up the plus kit for $38 @ Walmart)
2) Dynaplug
3) MINI roadside assistance

Some folks have AAA as well.

 

I remember hearing about wheel balance issues with a bunch of goop floating around in a punctured tire. Maybe it was this stuff, or the runflat goop?


I watched all their videos and also noticed that they only punctured the tire between the tread, is that because it's too much work to puncture it elsewhere, or because the goop stays close to the center of the tire and works less well with lateral punctures?


If this stuff spreads evenly around the tire edge then there shouldn't be a wheel balance problem even with a lot of product in the tire, but it only stands to reason that it should at one point eventually dry up and no longer function. After all, once the tire is punctured, it fills the puncture hole and DRIES solid. That is how it plugs up the hole.


What keeps it from drying up into solid form inside the tire over time? Once solid it can also be punctured, turning it into just a simple extra thickness of rubber inside the tire, which needs to be plugged when punctured. Something here doesn't make sense. I even wonder if during their testing at the SEMA show in Vegas they didn't add product every night after closing?


I'll wait until somebody provide a testimonial about their successful experience using this stuff. A good test would be to fill your tires and drive around in a poorly kept metal scrapyard. My carpenter did just that and got dozens of punctures in his pickup's tires.

 

I have some run flats with a decent tread life left on them. There is 14k on them but they look almost brand new.