Hello there
This is probably not the forum to ask but I have been here for a long time now and you guys have been more than nice, helpful and knowledgeable and I just felt like this is the exactly where I need to ask this question. My Dad recently had an accident with this car (2007 BMW 525i) where he was driving at night and there were like huge rocks on the road which he didn't see and he hit them with his front right wheel. The wheel broke and the tyre inflated and the car has been parked under the house ever since then.
I am not sure if you know this, but the situation in Egypt has been pretty bad recently (politically speaking) and therefore importing and such is getting very difficult and stores that import are not able to receive their shipments yet.
To make it short, we're not able get any wheels to replace the broken one yet. My Dad wants to get a set of four since the ones on the car are old already so it'd be better to replace all four rather than just one.
This is a picture of the wheel:
I visited a couple of wheel repair shops and all of them told me it can be fixed for a high price and it will be back as new, however I have been advised against that and to be honest I am unsure about the safety of that.
Now the car has a lightweight spare wheel like the one that came with my Leon and I had someone install it a couple of days ago.
The problem is that the SEAT dealership sold the rights to Volkswagen Group in Egypt but VW Group still hasn't received the license or something and aren't selling accessories and spare parts yet, so I am in a situation where my brake pads are starting to make sounds and I don't want to drive the car until I have them replaced.
I don't know if I can drive my Dad's car on the spare wheel? I know that the max speed is 80 km/h which is fine by me, but really how long can you drive on it?
Thank you guys for your time, you can just skip the whole story on the top and answer my question at the bottom if you may and have time. Appreciate it.
This is probably not the forum to ask but I have been here for a long time now and you guys have been more than nice, helpful and knowledgeable and I just felt like this is the exactly where I need to ask this question. My Dad recently had an accident with this car (2007 BMW 525i) where he was driving at night and there were like huge rocks on the road which he didn't see and he hit them with his front right wheel. The wheel broke and the tyre inflated and the car has been parked under the house ever since then.
I am not sure if you know this, but the situation in Egypt has been pretty bad recently (politically speaking) and therefore importing and such is getting very difficult and stores that import are not able to receive their shipments yet.
To make it short, we're not able get any wheels to replace the broken one yet. My Dad wants to get a set of four since the ones on the car are old already so it'd be better to replace all four rather than just one.
This is a picture of the wheel:
I visited a couple of wheel repair shops and all of them told me it can be fixed for a high price and it will be back as new, however I have been advised against that and to be honest I am unsure about the safety of that.
Now the car has a lightweight spare wheel like the one that came with my Leon and I had someone install it a couple of days ago.
The problem is that the SEAT dealership sold the rights to Volkswagen Group in Egypt but VW Group still hasn't received the license or something and aren't selling accessories and spare parts yet, so I am in a situation where my brake pads are starting to make sounds and I don't want to drive the car until I have them replaced.
I don't know if I can drive my Dad's car on the spare wheel? I know that the max speed is 80 km/h which is fine by me, but really how long can you drive on it?
Thank you guys for your time, you can just skip the whole story on the top and answer my question at the bottom if you may and have time. Appreciate it.
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