987 No Runflat

[daro911]

Just been quoted £432.00 plus VAT for a runflat for the 987 no wonder Porsche cars ditched this in favour of a poxy can of gel []
On top of that you also need to buy a jack, wheel brace and air compressor[&o]

I located an unused runflat from a breakers yard £75.00 plus VAT but apparently it wont fit the 987 wrong offset etc [] so that idea is a non starter.

 

[john holmes]

Our old boxster had the somewhat called "spare wheel" - it always puzzled us when travelling through France and Spain fully loaded with luggage what do you do with the wheel you take off! Do you leave the wife at the side of the road and put the wheel on the passenger seat - you can do 200 miles in Spain without seeing a garage. So the spare wheel was a wasted space and extra weight - although I don't like gunge what else do you do beside call Porsche Assistance on your mobile. In Spain they don't know who you are - never found the Porsche dealer in Alicante - turns out it was a volvo garage - by this time I had repaired the expanding rubber on the roof with heat by cooling it overnight.[]

 

[daro911]

ORIGINAL: john holmes

Our old boxster had the somewhat called "spare wheel" - it always puzzled us when travelling through France and Spain fully loaded with luggage what do you do with the wheel you take off!

John good point well argued, but what about those of us who never or rarely travel fully loaded! The spare wheel would be handy for the repairable punctures one can get anytime anywhere any place [] If you use the cheap and tacky gel the tyre has to be junked which seems an awful shame in these days of political corruptness - re-cycling save the plannet type stuff

 

[Michael Downing]

Thinking back, I can recall 7 punctures or other tyre failures over the years. Of those, 4 could have been remedied with the gel stuff, 3 could not (including the only one on the 911).

So on one count, a can of gel is (roughly speaking) only half the value of a spare wheel.

However, on two of the instances where the can could not have helped, I called for assistance anyway as the circumstances were not conducive to a lone roadside wheelchange. So, in a way, the spare wheel might as well have been in the callout van. This leaves one in 5 instances where the can would have left me high and dry but a spare wheel would have got me home.

That said, I'd still rather have a spare. Especially on the 911.

 

[boothy]

The advice I got from the OPC, when I questioned this, was - 'call Porsche Assistance, anywhere in Europe' [8D]
Wonder if anyone has had a puncture on a March 1st car yet [8|]