Comments on: Reasons to have regular tires on your BMW – Part II

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By: Spliv

Spliv — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:50:00 +0000

can you use reg. tires instead of rflis

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:27:00 +0000

It was my privilege to live and work in Orlando Florida for 12 years. There I owned and drove daily a C5 Corvette. As new on run flats the ride was hard, noisy and the car would tram line over ruts. Changing the Goodyear RFTs for Goodyear normals at 22k miles beneficially transformed the car to an extent I could hardly believe, the ride became supple and quiet and the tramlining disappeared completly. I never had a problem with the RFTs, but within days of fitting the normal tyres, I had a puncture and a couple of weeks later another. I though there must be a problem, but after another 19 k miles no other punctures. I carried a compressor in the trunk and was able to get the car to a tyre shop 10 miles away with only a couple of stops to reinflate.

I now live in S of France and drive a late 2008 520 d, a great car except for its ride quality and the noisy impacts to the body produced by its 245/17 RFTs on the country roads near my home. I have now done 26k on the RFTs, mostly at the speed limits on the great French autoroutes, and they are just past half worn. I would dearly like to change them for normal tyres when their time is up, but the lack of sympathy from BMW is offputting as is the potential of computer intolerance. Does any know if you can get round this problem

By: BBQvp

BBQvp — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:30:55 +0000

True… However as I have found in my area most tire dealers won’t because of liability! You can not force someone to repair a run flat!

By: robjobe

robjobe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:53:41 +0000

I am trying to replace the tires on my 2003 5 series. It has a 7 series 18 inch rim package, so I have to get different sizes for the front and the back. It was purchased used with with BF Goodrich G-Force T/As.
Should I stay in the same direction?
Is there a better quality, performance or lasting tire brand and style I should take into consideration?

By: robjobe

robjobe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:52:52 +0000

By: lenmakya

lenmakya — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:13:29 +0000

Always monitoring your tires’ tread patterns is an essential part of keeping your automobile safe. Check your tires for undulating cups or scallops along the outside edges and feathering are some of the important tests that should be done regularly. Look for second-rib wear and keep your tires inflated to their manufacturer-recommended air pressures.

By: Horatiu B.

Horatiu B. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:42:11 +0000

I might do an experiment one of these days and swap out my RFTs for normal tires and do an extensive test drive. I’m wondering how soon I will notice the difference

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:30:17 +0000

@Miles Ransom: But have you enquired what the implications are should the tyre burst, would insurance even pay out? All tyre brands and manufacturers of RFT void the warranty of the tyres after you have repaired them and they deny any liability should anything happen.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:16:37 +0000

@M: At this rate, all of them :)

By: mlg2ca

mlg2ca — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:15:12 +0000

No problems with running non-RFTs: that’s what I did on my MINI when I go to the track.

By: M

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:09:50 +0000

can someone list which BMW models come with and without RFTs. I know the 2009 5 series without sport pkg has regular tires.
Also, do we know which 2010 models are expected to have regular tires.

By: B. Riley

B. Riley — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:34:35 +0000

Hahahaha!!!! I WISH a tire would go 50,000 miles for me. half that would be AMAZING.

By: rcm3

rcm3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:30:21 +0000

I’d be curious about the outcome when owners switch from RFTs to non-RFTs. Did any alarms/warnings go off inside the car?

I’d also be interested in more info about spare-tire bays being included in any new models? If BMW is selling cars with space for a spare anywhere, theoretically part numbers would exist to retrofit those items to your car.

By: KoT-6ereMoT

KoT-6ereMoT — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:27:58 +0000

This tires it’s bullshit. Just try do drive your car on the bad road, and look what happened with your wheel disk after this :)

By: tt

tt — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:01:29 +0000

great article. hopefully this will educate some people that rft’s are actually worse than non-rft’s when it comes to performance, and practicality, for that matter.

By: Miles Ransom

Miles Ransom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:27:41 +0000

run flats tires can be patched anywhere except near the sidewalls

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:15:52 +0000

Is there room for a spare on a 3-series?

By: Mohammed AlMomen

Mohammed AlMomen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:45:05 +0000

@Craig: space savers limit your speed, but for a non RFT most shops can repair it and you will be back up to speed in no time. For RFTs you can't repair them, you can't find them anywhere

By: bunker

bunker — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:52:08 +0000

I recently replaced my OEM summer performance runflats on my E92 with performance WINTER non-runflats…and the ride is remarkably better – even with the harder compound of the winters.

RFT’s are a joke IMO.