Hah! Roadside assistance.
Hah! Roadside assistance. Like the Maginot Line, you think you are safe until the Germans reveal your false sense of security. I have used roadside assist three times, all due to tire problems. First, you need to know that it is not BMW, but a third party contractor staffed by morons who can't read maps. All three times they couldn't figure out where was I was because I was not in a city. Moreover, the contracted towing companies HATE doing roadside assist runs because they earn diddly. So you are not a priority to them. Second, they will ONLY bring you to a BMW dealer. Now, if you are in the American West, that BMW dealer could be hundreds of miles away. And, of course, the shops at those dealers are only open about 60 hours out of a weekly total 168. But, as I discovered, they often don't have tires in stock. And in any place not in shouting distance of a tire distributor, it means you may need to wait 24 hours or longer. So....to put this another way, if you need a new tire, and need to get towed to a dealer (a process that can take hours depending on location and how busy the tow company is), you better hope this happens during working hours Monday-Thursday and even then you could be stuck for days. Now, folk like me -- driving the wide open vistas of the west, are the minority. And I realize the majority generally represses minorities in ways obvious and subtle. But the solution -- let's call it Number 1 on the universal declaration of BMW driver rights (yeah, lame, whatever) = a proper spare so the damn machine can be driven. I hate runflats, if you can't tell