Ditching My Noisy Runflats

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Apr 24, 2006 | 12:16 PM

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KAF

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My Ride: F11 535i M-Sport,, Silver, Black Leather, LED Adaptive headlights

Model Year: 2015

Engine: N55

Tyre wear ratings allow you to compare between tyres from the same manufacturers pretty well.

They are pretty useless for comparing different makes.

Apr 24, 2006 | 12:36 PM

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edl

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My Ride: 2005 545i born July 13, 2005, Jet Black with Black Dakota leather interior, 6 speed manual transmission, with sports package, premium sound package, cold weather package and satellite prep...persistence overcomes resistence!

I guess another option is to just keep flipping the Dunlop runflats (at least Dunlop is what my 05 545 came with) because there is still a service bulletin out there (apparently) and a few weeks ago the dealer gave me a new set of Dunlop runflats - the car had 12K mi on it - if they want to give me a new set every 12K/1year...let them have at it!

Thanks,
edl

Apr 24, 2006 | 01:30 PM

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Sans

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Originally Posted by edl' post='273547' date='Apr 24 2006, 02:36 PM

What did the new bulletin say? I have replaced the RFT's once and already I'm irrated by the ammount of road noise "new" ones generate. If I could go back to the dealer (w/o being "that guy") and switch them out I would happily do so.

Apr 24, 2006 | 01:31 PM

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colejl

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Originally Posted by KAF' post='273537' date='Apr 24 2006, 09:16 PM

Tyre wear ratings allow you to compare between tyres from the same manufacturers pretty well.

They are pretty useless for comparing different makes.

That's what I thought but I've been doing some googling and it appears they are all relative to a 'control tyre' so it should give a rough idea between makes too!?