Hi,
I was wondering how bad is handling affected by mixing tires in the front and back. Are we talking night and day or very little?
The rear tires are new and are the same for both.
The front tires are 50% life tread and are the same for both.
All tires are of the same type (summer , max performance, ZR, staggered) but the thread pattern and manufacturer is different.
Thanks
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Here's my experience: Tore up a Bridgestone 255/35/18 500 miles away from home last month and managed to get it replaced with a Kumho same size the same day and got home ok. I think the Bridgestone failed, but they won't do anything about it...so I'm stuck with the funny looking (And extremely noisy) Kumho on the right rear and a Bridgestone on the left.
Handling doesn't seem to be effected, but I don't like the look of course. #1: Will never buy another car with staggered size tires. #2: Will never buy another car w/o a full size spare. #3: Never will have Bridgestones again and if my next BMW comes with them fitted will refuse delivery. Yes, I have the money to buy another Bridgestone...but that means $255+$175 for the Kumho+mounting/balancing and hassle, so a flat tire costs me close to $500? The OEM ****stones are only good for maybe 20,000 miles...so I'm stuck and that sucks. Don't mix tires? Unless you have money to burn I don't think you have a choice.
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Good luck buying any future bimmers without run flats and mixed size tires.
I see the trend coming with BMW to have run flats on all cars and the sport package always has mixed sizes which prevents the ability to rotate and causes one to buy an extra front and rear tire to have on hand. If my 645 had all same size tires and a spare in the trunk I would have been happier. I feel more secure changing a flat and taking the old tire in for repair or replacement, then pushing the BMW assist button and praying that a dealer or tire shop is near buy with a tire.
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How many cars can you buy with a full sized spare? How amny serious performance cars can you buy with non-staggered tires? How many performance cars get even 20K miles out of a set of tires?
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