11-08-2020, 10:39 AM | #1 |
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Service Advisor advised that BMW tires are not to be rotated?
Is this norm? My wheels are not staggered. Considering we have a huge and heavy vehicle, do you plan to have your tires rotated? Although most here have M50i's, please do feel free to chime in.
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11-08-2020, 12:42 PM | #2 |
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They told me the same thing and I told them to rotate them anyway. I've rotated them twice already and I have just over 16K on my 2020 X7 with All Season NON Run Flat 21" tires.
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11-08-2020, 02:09 PM | #3 |
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Did you have to pay for the rotation? Also with 16K miles, any issues or items you had addressed to the dealer? Lastly, looking at your brake pads, you see getting another 15K miles? Thanks Mitch.
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11-08-2020, 02:48 PM | #4 |
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Rotate them. Especially with a square set up.
AWD vehicles need to have their tire rotated every 5k miles. I do it myself. I been down this road with Audi’s for decades. Miss a tire rotation and you will see the additional wear on the treads. |
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11-08-2020, 03:42 PM | #5 | |
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If the suspension is in good shape and wheels are properly balanced, there shouldn't be significant wear difference front/rear/left/right in a 4wd/awd vehicle based on my experience. (Disclaimer, my experience with AWD vehicles have all been with German vehicles. So I can't say if American or Asian AWD/4WD vehicles wear at the same rate. My experience with 2WD vehicles have been a combination of German and American and they have similar wear patters with the American vehicles having slightly higher wear on the drive wheels). |
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11-08-2020, 04:21 PM | #6 | |
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11-08-2020, 06:41 PM | #7 |
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It is supposed to be part of the included maintenance. They are getting paid for it and just trying to get away with not doing it. If you have a staggered setup with directional tires then they are correct, but if not they should be rotated.
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11-08-2020, 07:56 PM | #9 | |
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I would like to see some documentation about rotations being part of the 3 year 36,000 free maintenance though. |
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11-08-2020, 08:30 PM | #10 | |
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On the same note, how do we temporarily disable the air suspension so we can jack up the car? If we don't do this, will it damage the system? |
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11-08-2020, 08:38 PM | #11 |
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Do you rotate with staggered tires? They are different sizes I think. I know you can't just rotate fronts together and rears because then the tire will spin backwards.
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11-08-2020, 08:48 PM | #12 |
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Here you go.
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11-09-2020, 12:29 AM | #14 |
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This brings up another question for me: what are you using for wheels-off detailing or rotations? It seems a little sketchy to leave it up on two jacks, but the numbers don't seem to line up even for the quickjack 7000 extended model. edit: and no, you don't rotate staggered tires. Even if it might look like it could almost fit, the wheels are wider in back with a different offset, meaning nothing would fit right or work right.
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11-09-2020, 03:11 AM | #17 |
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No rotation for staggered.
If non-staggered, and the tires are directional (i.e. speed rated), you could only swap front and rear, which only has partial benefit. |
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11-09-2020, 11:04 PM | #18 |
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I have staggered for summer and same size for winter after one second each they measured exactly the same which I was surprised, I would expect rears with more wear. Perhaps BMW has some more advanced traction control and power distribution that does prevent uneven wear? I have done about 4K miles on each set and going thru second season with winters now
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