Sounds like you had bad luck.
Sounds like you had bad luck. You've got to weigh up your options - you can't just blame everything on run flats. Have you considered that your tyre might have ripped off and you may have lost control and crashed badly had normal tyres been on? Then think about the scenarios - what happens if you get 2 flats and you have normal tyres? What happens if you crack a rim on run flats? What if you're driving past Diepsloot in South Africa and you get a flat and have normal tyres?
It sounds like you had a catastrophic tyre failure, and if you had normal tyres on you may have lost more than a tyre and some time. Maybe the runflats caused some inconvenience at the cost of saving your life?
Do you drive with a puncture repair kit in your car? You should. Even if you have normal tyres.
Puncture repair kit:
- Bottle jack
- Wheel spanner
- Rasp tool
- Split eye needle
- Repair plugs
- Rubber cement
- Side cutters
- Pliers
- Compressor
Mine cost me a bit under R1500 ($71) and the compressor is an extremely useful thing to keep handy anyway. Oh and the compressor was most of the cost.