All of the major tire companies, including Michelin, Bridgestone, Firestone, Goodyear, and Pirelli, offer some kind of tire that can run without air for a limited distance. If you suffer a puncture, these tires won’t leave you stranded on the freeway shoulder. They can get you a bit further down the road, up to 100 miles in some cases.

Michelin PAX is a run-flat tire but is being discontinued, along with several other manufacturers run-flat tires, due to slow demand.




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April 20, 2008

WHEN Michelin introduced its PAX run-flat tire in the United States on the Touring edition of the 2005 Honda Odyssey minivan, it predicted that the innovative wheel-tire combination “could become as commonplace as fold-flat seats.”

But now the tiremaker is giving up on PAX. A Michelin spokeswoman, Lynn Mann, said the company was no longer trying to sell automakers the system, which Michelin once described as “the biggest technical innovation in the tire industry since we introduced the radial tire nearly 60 years ago.”

She said that Michelin decided to discontinue PAX because automakers had several other choices in run-flat technology and that there was “slow growth of the extended-mobility tire segment in general.”

~ NY Times