My Safeco auto policy gives
My Safeco auto policy gives me access to any towing service, so whether BMW assistance is available or not, a towing service is likely to respond unless, as you say, we find ourselves in the middle of East Jesus Nowhere, which isnt very common. The few times we have needed help (including the catastrophic failure of the OEM plastic water pump in my M3) we have been flatbedded to a dealer without much delay. As I said, I have had a full sized spare on a stock M Sport alloy rim in my trunk for over 20 years. It has never been out of the trunk. And in a Mini, there simply is no good place to stash a spare. Finally, neither I nor my wife are really likely to jack up a car and change a tire anyway - we'd call for help regardless. I grant you it isnt ideal, but given what runflats cost, the limited selection of RF tires and the limits on their performance, it makes some sense to me to go 'naked' with standard tires and no spare. But we just got a new MINI with arF tires on it, so will wait to see how that goes before we spring for a new set of rubber.