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I have a Mini and that came with Dunlop run-flats from new... until recently (last month) I had always replaced tyres with the Dunlops.. they lasted about 25,000 miles on the front, longer on the back, and cost about £175 to £185 each, depending on where I got them.
The car is high mileage and has now done 165,000 miles (5.5 years old), so I've been through quite a lot of tyres. I have just changed the tyres to Pirelli run-flats of identical size as an exercise to see if they last any better. The Pirelli's were only slightly cheaper than the Dunlops... its too early to say yet whether they will last any longer.
Remoulds are to British Standards now, but I guess some dodgey ones do sneak through
I used to use Colway on my Discovery (& 110CSW - 235/85 x 16), I sold the Discovery with 35,000 miles on the Colways (235/70 x 16) & they were a lot less than half worn
Plus, last September I changed the front tyres on my Octavia estate, the original Dunlops had covered almost 33,000 miles, & still had about 3 mm left
Not too bad for a heavy front-wheel-drive diesel!
As for the Speed-Rating, please make sure that you buy tyres that at least equal the car manufacturers fitments.
Strictly speaking, even allowing for the 70MPH limit in this country, if a car has a top speed of (say?, the 'gentlemans agreement' figure) 155MPH, the tyres must have a higher speed rating than this
If not, it could be seen as a 'get out clause' by an insurance company, as the vehicle's not deemed (in their) eyes to be road-legal
Especially if you do not inform them that you have made a change from the manfacturers specification, by lowering the rating of the tyres
Silly, given our speed limits, but that's the way it is.