SLegacy99

Are Continentals all that great? My Legacy was 5 years old when I got it and it had Continentals on it and they had a decent amount of tread on them, but the side walls were so awful on three of them that I replaced them immediatley with some Goodyear RS-As.

DASHOCKER

iTrader: (2)

It is the runflats. It does not bother me much. Leaving it as is because I don't know what affect normal tires would have on the TPM on the 335 sport.

herbvdh

It is the runflats. I noticed a difference when my son got rid of the runflats. IE: softer better ride, and definetly quieter in the car. He drives a GS300AWD

SLegacy99

He has Bridgestone Potenzas he told me. Hasn't called BMW yet.

SLegacy99

Well my dad hasnt been home to contact BMW yet. But I guess he went to the goodyear dealer for a tire for his tractor and talked to the salesman about it. Apparently the salesman has a 7 series and he says when all BMWs hit 15,000 miles and they make this noise, run flat tires or not. He also said that he brother has a 3 series and he has tried all kinds of tires (the latest being Michellins) and they still make noise after they wear down a bit.

This doesn't seem right to me. My last set of tires on my Legacy were Continentals and they last 40,000 miles without horrible noises.

RON430

You don't need to focus on this being a bimmer if he has 15,000 miles on it. Go to the tire forum here and see how many people with Lexus complain about modern tires getting noisy long before they are worn out. 15K is definitely where the noise is an issue with a lot of tires. We complained about the noise from the Bridgestone's on my wife's GS3 two days after she bought it and Lexus swapped out the tires for AVS db's which were better. This is a moving target as the next gen AVS db's were lousy. She has a Michelin now that is pretty good and I am having luck with Pirelli's on my Lexus but after 15K, all of them are making a lot of noise, much more than new. I haven't noticed the runflats being much noisier than other tires, just rougher riding.

kit cat

iTrader: (6)

I hope not but wheel bearings?

4TehNguyen

iTrader: (1)

broken wheel bearings make a different type of noise and produce vibrations as well

my RE050 on my IS are starting to make a lot of noise, they only have 3-4k miles left, tires get noisier as they get worn down.

SLegacy99

Update: my dad got new tires and they are quiet. Cost him $1000 of which, BMW agreed to play $200 and allign for free. Don't think we will be getting any more Bimmers.

whlkev

not getting a bimmer or any car because of the tires is a long stretch...

SLegacy99

Well hey if you have the money to get $1000k worth of new tires every 10 -15k miles then good for you.

whlkev

my old runflats went up to 35k and almost to 40k before replacement

lexus comes with runflats too, i do have it on mine

SLegacy99

According to BMW all of the E92s do this because of the design of their suspensions. Complaints are also coming from 5 and 6 series owners.

SilverBull

Wait a minute, I thought BMW took care of the maintenance on the cars for the first 50k miles or 4 years? So what gives on that?

SLegacy99

Yeah not tires apparently.

Which the salesman said to us that not enough people wanted to own BMWs because of the expense which is why they did the 4 years scheduled maintence.