[mini-is-4-me]

i would get rid of run flat tyres before altering the shocks if no visual leaking as run flats are terrible

Terrible, until you have a flat in the middle of no where.

 

[mini-is-4-me]

I don't know Mike. I think you are in Europe correct? Big difference than here in the States. I live in Texas. I could drive 300 miles on a major highway in some places in Texas and never see a gas station. I drive 20 miles to work and 20 miles back from work every day. So in other words, we drive a lot and have to go far distances to get from point A to point B. I would not want to be in the middle of no where with a spray can. Run Flats also have a lot of side wall protection to you really are less likely to get other types of tire problems that a spray can simply will do nothing for you.

However, I do know what you mean. Run flats feel like you are driving on solid rubber tires with no air in them and so you feel every pebble.

Also, that means a lot more work out on the shocks. Almost every Mini I drove over 72000 miles, the shocks where gone. You can replace shocks before they leak out all their internals. It is very cheap fix and very easy to do if you stay with the self-contained shocks. Easier than a brake job and you can probably do both at the same time to save time.

To each their own. I have enough things to worry about.

 

[mini-is-4-me]

have you ever been to the uk the roads are terrible pot holes all kinds of cambers on the roads that solid car tyres tram like you would not believe, also we have corners here all kinds of old methods of coating a road badly and a government that gives the contracts to anyone they know and not so much anyone who knows how to it would seem,, ha ha they gave a shipping contract to one company who never even had a ship,, anyway before long this country will be no longer a exporter of any car the way its going

I wasn't thinking necessarily about pot holes. Last year I was driving my Toyota Tacoma from here up to Waco which is about 100 miles. There was all sorts of construction on the roads so sort of a normal weekend in Texas. On the way back I must have run over something. I started to hear tink, tink, tink depending on speed. At first, I thought it was a rock and figured it would be flung out of the tire at speed. Then after a few minutes, boom. Luckily I had a spare. It blew whatever it was out but I'm guessing it was a big lag screw about the size of an arrow shaft based on the hole it left. You would not have been able to fill the hole it left with tire goo or a patch.