550i - new tires today - wear questions
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I would go out of my way to find a discount tire over NTB. NTB wanted $65 to put my winter set on and was going to charge me another $15 to reset the TPMS!! Discount swapped them over for free.
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I have used discount tire for many years. This local NTB has better equipment and a very good management staff. The Roadforce balancer is much better than Discount Tire and NTB can do alignment.
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Wearing on the inside is normal on these cars. I'd suggest taking the tires back every so often and asking them to swap them from one side of the car to the other (to help the tires wear more evenly). For a couple hundred more you could have gotten a set of michelin tires mounted on miro 111's with about 4k miles on them (plug because I'm selling mine). 
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Wearing on the inside is normal on these cars. I'd suggest taking the tires back every so often and asking them to swap them from one side of the car to the other (to help the tires wear more evenly). For a couple hundred more you could have gotten a set of michelin tires mounted on miro 111's with about 4k miles on them (plug because I'm selling mine).
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Glad it worked out with ntb. I had them replace a tire for me. It took them 15 minutes just to get the new tire on. The entire shop floor cheered when it finally went on. I knew at that point I'd made a mistake.
Worse part was they severely over torqued the wheel. When I was swapping back to winter tires a month later, I could stand on the lugged wrench. Nuts finally broke loose but not before scratching the crap out out of the rim bolt section. I won't back.
Worse part was they severely over torqued the wheel. When I was swapping back to winter tires a month later, I could stand on the lugged wrench. Nuts finally broke loose but not before scratching the crap out out of the rim bolt section. I won't back.
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Wearing on the inside is normal on these cars. I'd suggest taking the tires back every so often and asking them to swap them from one side of the car to the other (to help the tires wear more evenly). For a couple hundred more you could have gotten a set of michelin tires mounted on miro 111's with about 4k miles on them (plug because I'm selling mine).
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