Originally Posted by Rhys
All new BMW's are sold with runflats! So when 80% of the owners change them for non run flats your saying they are running around with invalid insurance? I can see this as it cannot affect the car in any way possible. It just you can supposidly get home without having to change for the spare. (which come on its good on BMW's as the owners dont want to have to change a tyre)
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Width yeah maybe.... But type of tyres from run flats to non run flats i cannot see it.
That is just it, the tyre supplier should inform the customer that they have run-flats in the 1st place.
Imagine the situation though, insured is driving their car and gets a blow-out @ 70mph on the outside lane of the motorway. If the insured had run-flats, they would be able to manouvre to the side of the road in safety, but with normal tyres, they had an accident with the armco (for arguments sake). Insurance company checks the tyres (as they do with EVERY claim to check tread depth) and finds a non-run-flat tyre (which directly attributed to the accident). If you were an insurance company, what would you do?
The problem with insurance companies nowadays is that the onus is on the insured to do everything, same as traffic law.