Any Bimmer owners in the house?...I have a question
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.