German Car Zone

Buy a tire and keep it in your garage when you do not plan on going on long trips. If you have a flat within the city, you can drive it home safely to be changed.
That is excatly what I have done. I only took my spare tire with me when I went on a 5000+ miles round-trip to Canada last year, never used but it was a good insurance policy to have.

But that is a temporary arrangement i feel. That means it can never be used as a family car,as you can't take luggage along if taking spare with you. Is you tilt the seats that means can't take kids along. This is what i feel.




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Yes, the Australian media absolutely despises the absense of a full-size spare tyre, it really gets irritating reading reviews after reviews of BMWs where consistently, the only negatives are 1) run-flat tyres 2) i-drive and 3) "love it or hate it styling".

Dad's 530i has runflats, as far as I know you can order either a fullsize or space-saver spare tyre if desired - maybe this is the case for the 3 series too? The other problem that is really noticeable with dad's car is the ride quality, which suffers as a result - very unforgiving and juttery. Not good for Aussie (and I presume Indian!) roads.

Thanks for the valuable coments. Even when i saw it it felt very bad. I can just say that people who car going to buy it in india considering it a luxury saloon,they will be stunned to see the practicality of the beemer.

On Mercedes' cars, the inclusion of a real spare tire is optional these days.

Thanks.

I know in European package it is optional, but in Indian Assembled car, Spare Tyre is Standard in the package.

Good to know. I personally wish we still had spare tires in our cars but a lot of manufacturers remove them for weight saving purposes and because of the runflat fad.