Realx, severe inner tire wear is perfectly normal for our cars. Keep in mind -2.0 degrees (negative) camber is still within spec for the E60. What you can do (and I already did) was have the alignment shop dial out as much negative camber as possible, they managed to get mine to -0.8 which will hopefully make my tires last much longer. Another thing to do is to switch the rear tires each side every 5k miles or so, this will prevent just one edge getting too worn too soon.

 

Picked it up this morning and sure enough the rears were over the acceptable camber. I don't have the print out in front of me, but when I said "So were they out then" the response from the garage owner was "Oh yeah!".

THe most worrying thing, however, was that the new tyres were affecting the handling. Driving at say 85mph the car continually felt like it was experiencing a cross-wind and veering a good foot or so to one side or the other. Could just be tramlining, but felt like something was awry. My missus drove it on a 400 mile round trip and didn't want to get back into it until it was sorted.

This is not something that we've experienced at all in the 5 years we've had it. Not had a chance to drive it at those speeds yet as I only picked it up on my way to the station.

But if you read THIS thread, then you'll see that all is still not rosy.

 

Can you point out those balljoints on that pic? Nr. 2 is a ball joint, but you mentioned 2 on each side?

 

I had the same issue with my rears. I think it's the combination of the negative camber by BMW, my 19's sitting on 275 rear tires and the 9 and a half inch wide wheels that wore out prematurely the rear tires.

I will be putting on the winters on in the next couple of weeks and will get the alignment done and dial out the negative camber a little.

 

Sorry, misunderstanding - it is No 2, but just 1 either side. The dealer tried to replace just one side at first, not both sides at the same time