BMW = Luxury car that attract attention for most ordinary people, sometimes the wrong kind of attention that you'll need. RFTs give u the extra 'insurance' you'll need in an unlikely event of where you have attracted the wrong kind of attention. Let me give u a real account and you'll really think twice before considering cutting your budget on tyres and getting non-RFTs.
The following event happened between 12:00pm and 1:00pm:
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1. Drove from house car porch to HSBC, parked at HSBC customer reserved parking lot and went into HSBC to perform some bank transaction.
2. Came out from HSBC, travelling towards city centre.
3. Noticed a Proton Wira tail-gating, enters the highway and the wira continue to follow.
4. Tyre pressure warning signal flashed up.
5. Proton Wira increase speed & showing signs of attempting to crash into my back, starts engaging on highspeed highway car chase.
6. Managed to zig-zag around thru 3-4 toll-gates and lost the wira (or the wira driver finally realised that BMW actually run on RFTs and give up)
(when I entered the highway, there was also strange loud noise coming from my rear right area, I was gonna stop by the emergency land on the highway to do a quick inspection had the wira not trying to do some kamikaze stunt on me. After I'd parked at The Curve later to check, the steel rod was actually still hanging on the mud guard and the loud strange noise was due to the steel rod hitting the ground surface of the road.)
The following event happened between 1:00pm and 2:00pm:
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7. Stop by at a shopping mall car park next to check the problem, found a L-shaped steel rod been punched into the rear right mud-guard and tyre (L-shape steel rod measure approx 4cm x 10cm).
8. Drove to IA straight to check if any further damage was done.
9. IA technician jack up the car and found no further damage been done, IA technician disabled warning signal.
10.Patched the RFT at Lim Tayar, mud guard hole was not patchable.
After this incident, I'm 100% convinced that the extra few k are really worth spending for a safer 18-24 months ride. There are situations where you just don't have the time or the right environment for you to change your tyre or inject it with your tyre kit, and you don't want to regret your decision on your tyre spending when you are in those unlucky situation.
The following event happened between 12:00pm and 1:00pm:
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1. Drove from house car porch to HSBC, parked at HSBC customer reserved parking lot and went into HSBC to perform some bank transaction.
2. Came out from HSBC, travelling towards city centre.
3. Noticed a Proton Wira tail-gating, enters the highway and the wira continue to follow.
4. Tyre pressure warning signal flashed up.
5. Proton Wira increase speed & showing signs of attempting to crash into my back, starts engaging on highspeed highway car chase.
6. Managed to zig-zag around thru 3-4 toll-gates and lost the wira (or the wira driver finally realised that BMW actually run on RFTs and give up)
(when I entered the highway, there was also strange loud noise coming from my rear right area, I was gonna stop by the emergency land on the highway to do a quick inspection had the wira not trying to do some kamikaze stunt on me. After I'd parked at The Curve later to check, the steel rod was actually still hanging on the mud guard and the loud strange noise was due to the steel rod hitting the ground surface of the road.)
The following event happened between 1:00pm and 2:00pm:
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7. Stop by at a shopping mall car park next to check the problem, found a L-shaped steel rod been punched into the rear right mud-guard and tyre (L-shape steel rod measure approx 4cm x 10cm).
8. Drove to IA straight to check if any further damage was done.
9. IA technician jack up the car and found no further damage been done, IA technician disabled warning signal.
10.Patched the RFT at Lim Tayar, mud guard hole was not patchable.
After this incident, I'm 100% convinced that the extra few k are really worth spending for a safer 18-24 months ride. There are situations where you just don't have the time or the right environment for you to change your tyre or inject it with your tyre kit, and you don't want to regret your decision on your tyre spending when you are in those unlucky situation.
