I now have driven my 2004 545i 23,000 miles and gone through three sets of runflats. My current tires have about 6,000 miles on them and they are starting to go. When new the car rides well, but the ride detorates as they ware. My dealer and BMWNA have treated me very well each time I've brought the car in complaining of tire noise and rougher than normal ride, they have replaced the tires.

I lease my car and have another 18 months left on my lease, my question is can I live another year and a half with this situation or should I attempt to get BMWNA to either buy me out of my lease or allow me to change cars without getting killed? I think it's unreasonable to expect the owner of a $60,000 car that suffers from this type of problem. I don't except that high proformance runflat tires only last 7000 to 10,000 miles if this were the case then why is BMWNA replacing tires at no cost to us? Has anyone had a buyback with the same issue?

I'm not sure what to do, but I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Are you using the Dunlop runflats or the Bridgestones?

Time to buy conventional tires :whistle:

Agreed, I'm at 23,000 miles on the non-run flat Goodyear's that came on my 2004 545. And if I had not caught a serious nail, essentially forcing me ot replace all four, I probably had another 5,000+ plus miles to go...

I seem to be unique in that I really, really like my original runflat Dunlops. After 18,000 miles they still perform flawlessly. I may well get the same thing when they need to be replaced, which based on wear patterns is likely to be at about 30,000 to 35,000 miles.

I like my Dunlops because BMW keeps giving me free ones. I'll continue that process as long as they'll keep continuing it too! :thumbsup:

:lol: .... How many has BMW replaced for you? I had mine replaced and then 3 months later dropped them for conventional tires b/c of the 166 rims. :geek:

I'm using Dunlop which came on the car, do these problems only only accure on cars equipted with sports package?

BMW has given me two new sets of Dunlops so I'm on my third set if you count the set that came with the car at delivery... :thumbsup:

I've been through 2 sets of Dunlops (about 6K mis. each), then they gave me Bridgestones. I finally got sick of the crappy ride of the Bridgestones and replaced them with Mich PS2s (at my cost). I'll put the Bridgestones back on when my lease runs out.

The non run flat PS2s are a world better - car finally rides like a 5-series should.