Watching an advert while on here i wondered can you get ‘run flat’ tryes for trucks or is that sort of thing not possible? e.g. so truck can get off motorway to have a tyre changed 
pecjam23:
Watching an advert while on here i wondered can you get ‘run flat’ tryes for trucks or is that sort of thing not possible? e.g. so truck can get off motorway to have a tyre changed
I know that BMW 56 onwards use them,they are very expensive to replace, but as for trucks i have no idea,never heard off them,maybe they are been developed as we type, I imagine they would be too expensive and therefore inpractical.
Try talking direct with a TYRE firm, they
must have them as I know of one counrty
which has them fitted to its own banks
transfer vehicles, in this case germany,
You have to bear in mind that they cannot be repaired, IMO the only place they’d be useful on a truck is the front axle.
The ones fitted to my 05 3 series are/where pants expensive to replace unrepairable, and dificult to find when you need one. The ride quality is total pants, needless to say they have now been replaced with non runflats
We used to have run flat tyres on our armoured cars in the army.They were 1400 X 20 and of the split rim type,(that’s with the other ring of bolts that holds the two halves of the wheel together.)If you can remember back to the days before tubeless tyres,when you had the 3 piece wheel,when you put the tube into the tyre,there was a rubber flap that then went in to protect the tube from rubbing on the wheel.On the run flat tyres,this flap was about 4 inches thick,so in the event of a flat,prevented the rim from cutting the tyre wall to ribbons.Wasn’t guarranteed to save the tyre,but allowed you to drive to a place of safety to change it.
