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Police stinger and Run Flats

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Police stinger and Run Flats

Post by squeaky2 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:41 pm

Just on of those curiosity questions.......im assuming a Police stinger is fairly useless against the newer cars that have run flat tyres?

Any thoughts?

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Re: Police stinger and Run Flats

Post by X5Sport » Wed Jun 20, 2012 5:57 pm

Well.....sort of....ish.

If said thieving (censored - Ed) keeps driving 'like he/she stole it' then the tyres will overheat and shred once punctured and the handling will go to  :shit: as all four wheels will be failing together.  So yes it works, but takes a little longer than with a normal car.

At least, that what I would expect to happen.....  ;)
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Re: Police stinger and Run Flats

Post by squeaky2 » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:09 pm

only mention it because this popped up

http://pistonheads.co.uk/news/default.asp?storyId=25885

Im assuming when they mention a BMW Coupe it wasn't an X6  :)) :pokey:

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Re: Police stinger and Run Flats

Post by X5Sport » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:22 pm

:-[ :-[






Nah......we eat stingers and spit out the bits.. :spiteful:

Be one of them wimpy 3er 'rep mobile' things by the looks of it.  I wonder if the key was cloned... :guns:
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Re: Police stinger and Run Flats

Post by Cannondale » Sat Jun 23, 2012 8:17 pm

140, must have been just crusing :D
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