Flat Tire Nightmare
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Just a vent to blow off a little steam. I recently traveled back to my home town in Southeast Mo. 3000 miles on my new 545i with the sport package. (i.e. Dunlop run flats) and wouldn't you know, "Ding" Flat tire monitor, "Tire puncture." This happened on a Saturday and FYI there are no replacement tires in a 220 mile radius of South East Mo. I had the great pleasure of a return trip to Atlanta on the donut spare ~550 miles. I will say that my dealer was awsome in the process, I gave them a call and they tried to help find a tire, realized one wasn't available and had a loaner ready when I hit Atl, they fixed the tire the next day, replaced the window motor due to an intermittent trap notice I had mentioned and had me ready to go the next morning. After all the problems we read about, I just wanted to let people know that I love this car and my dealer / service dept. seem to be on the ball. Maybe I just got lucky.
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Welcome Epochii, glad to here your experience was better than many on this board. There are actually good dealers out there, but the vast majority of stories we hear on this board are complaints, the good stories just don't get posted as people expect a certain level service and when it is met, people are not surprised. When that expectation is not met, we here about it...
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Anyone running the SP run flats should be aware that there are very few stocked by anybody in the USA. When I needed four in Pensacola, the dealer had to order overnight from Cleveland. That makes Bokke's recent offer of a complete set of RF mounted on 124 style wheels even more appealing.
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Originally Posted by JDN' date='Feb 25 2005, 10:54 AM
Anyone running the SP run flats should be aware that there are very few stocked by anybody in the USA. When I needed four in Pensacola, the dealer had to order overnight from Cleveland. That makes Bokke's recent offer of a complete set of RF mounted on 124 style wheels even more appealing.
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Originally Posted by Epochii' date='Feb 25 2005, 10:54 AM
[quote name='JDN' date='Feb 25 2005, 10:54 AM']Anyone running the SP run flats should be aware that there are very few stocked by anybody in the USA. When I needed four in Pensacola, the dealer had to order overnight from Cleveland. That makes Bokke's recent offer of a complete set of RF mounted on 124 style wheels even more appealing.
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[/quote]Has anybody tried TIRE RACK for Run Flats?
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Originally Posted by Epochii' date='Feb 25 2005, 06:33 AM
Just a vent to blow off a little steam.? I recently traveled back to my home town in Southeast Mo. 3000 miles on my new 545i with the sport package. (i.e. Dunlop run flats) and wouldn't you know, "Ding" Flat tire monitor, "Tire puncture."? This happened on a Saturday and FYI there are no replacement tires in a 220 mile radius of South East Mo.? I had the great pleasure of a return trip to Atlanta on the donut spare ~550 miles.? I will say that my dealer was awsome in the process, I gave them a call and they tried to help find a tire, realized one wasn't available and had a loaner ready when I hit Atl, they fixed the tire the next day, replaced the window motor due to an intermittent trap notice I had mentioned and had me ready to go the next morning.? After all the problems we read about, I just wanted to let people know that I love this car and my dealer / service dept. seem to be on the ball.? Maybe I just got lucky.
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I tried Tire Rack for the Dunlop RF's 2 weeks ago and all warehouses were on back order with no ship date. I tried locally here in LA and no luck. I found 2 used on ebay and got them for $200. They arrived last week and they are practically new. Great deal! I haven't experienced any road noise from these tires. I love them. I currently have 40K miles on my 530.
I tried Tire Rack for the Dunlop RF's 2 weeks ago and all warehouses were on back order with no ship date. I tried locally here in LA and no luck. I found 2 used on ebay and got them for $200. They arrived last week and they are practically new. Great deal! I haven't experienced any road noise from these tires. I love them. I currently have 40K miles on my 530.
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Originally Posted by kscarrol' date='Feb 25 2005, 02:44 PM
[quote name='Epochii' date='Feb 25 2005, 06:33 AM']Just a vent to blow off a little steam.? I recently traveled back to my home town in Southeast Mo. 3000 miles on my new 545i with the sport package. (i.e. Dunlop run flats) and wouldn't you know, "Ding" Flat tire monitor, "Tire puncture."? This happened on a Saturday and FYI there are no replacement tires in a 220 mile radius of South East Mo.? I had the great pleasure of a return trip to Atlanta on the donut spare ~550 miles.? I will say that my dealer was awsome in the process, I gave them a call and they tried to help find a tire, realized one wasn't available and had a loaner ready when I hit Atl, they fixed the tire the next day, replaced the window motor due to an intermittent trap notice I had mentioned and had me ready to go the next morning.? After all the problems we read about, I just wanted to let people know that I love this car and my dealer / service dept. seem to be on the ball.? Maybe I just got lucky.
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[/quote]kscarrol,
Funny I wasn't sure it posted, I can't see it on the e60 forum, no clue why. The ticking / knock is still not resolved. My SA says it is normal and I had posted here earlier as a guest. It's funny that the post showed up after you asked. I went outside and took a short video of the noise with my digital camera, the quality is good but I'm not sure how to link the file. It seems it is too large for the reply file attachment. Any ideas?